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News Articles: Music

Over just a few months, the four members of the K-pop group BLACKPINK (left to right: Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa and Rosé) have all debuted new releases as solo artists.

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  • Music Features

As BLACKPINK's members try on solo stardom, only one finds a perfect fit

What does a K-pop idol look like when set free from the system? On their own for the first time, Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa and Rosé each arrive at a different answer.

March 24, 2025
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
Lady Gaga's <em>Mayhem</em>, which enters the chart at the top spot after a long windup that's included three top 40 singles.

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  • Music

Lady Gaga's 'Mayhem' shakes up the charts at No. 1

As expected, Lady Gaga's Mayhem storms to a No. 1 debut, becoming her seventh album to top the chart.

March 21, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
"When people grieve or go through a great loss, there are just ugly parts that come out of people when they're in survival mode," Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner told NPR, reflecting on the complicated relationships behind her new album.

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  • Music

Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner embraces melancholy in new album

With a new album, Michelle Zauner tells NPR she is finally finding balance between all the things she yearns for: her career goals, a connection to family and a connection to her ancestral home of Korea.

March 21, 2025
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By:
  • Lindsay Totty
Clockwise, from top left: Donna Summer and Whitney Houston (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons), Lil' Kim and Kate Bush

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  • Music

100 years, 100 moments: How women shaped a century of music

For Women's History Month, World Cafe is exploring 100 years of music history with a timeline of 100 moments.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Miguel Perez
Honduran musician and politician Aurelio Martínez, photographed in London in 2011.

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  • Obituaries

Aurelio Martínez, ambassador of Garifuna music, has died

The Honduran musician, one of the most recognized proponents of a Caribbean culture dating to the 17th century, died Monday in an airplane crash.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Felix Contreras
The crowd gathered in the Zelma Redding Amptheater for the official opening of Otis Redding Center for the Arts in Macon.

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  • Arts & Culture News

The new arts center named for soul great Otis Redding is open for education and expression

The Otis Redding Center for the Arts in Macon is the new home for yearslong efforts by the soul great's family to educate the next generation of musicians.

The new arts center named for soul great Otis Redding is open for education and expression

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Julien Baker and Torres perform at The Luck Reunion Festival 2025 at Luck Ranch on March 13, 2025 in Spicewood, Texas.

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  • Music

The best bands we saw at SXSW 2025

Public radio stations were on the ground in Austin for this year's SXSW Music festival.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • The NPR Network
Playboi Carti onstage in February, performing with The Weeknd during the 67th Grammy Awards. The rapper's long-delayed third studio album is titled, simply, <em>Music</em>.

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  • Music Features

Playboi Carti, a rap superstar who's never acted like one

MUSIC is the elusive rapper's first album in five years, but his presence has loomed heavy over hip-hop — and the fanbase whose ears he retuned for extremity.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
Playboi Carti onstage in February, performing with The Weeknd during the 67th Grammy Awards. The rapper's long-delayed third studio album is titled, simply, <em>Music</em>.

Tagged as: 

  • Music Features

Playboi Carti, a rap superstar who's never acted like one

MUSIC is the elusive rapper's first album in five years, but his presence has loomed heavy over hip-hop — and the fanbase whose ears he retuned for extremity.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
Jesse Colin Young performs live in 1973.

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  • Music

Jesse Colin Young, singer of The Youngbloods' 'Get Together,' dies at 83

Prolific musician Jesse Colin Young, best known for being the voice of the '60s folk-rock anthem "Get Together," died on Sunday at age 83.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Annie Zaleski
This week, only one album debuts in the top 50: <em>Alter Ego</em> by LISA of the K-pop group BLACKPINK.

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  • Music

LISA is BLACKPINK's latest member to crack the top 10

This week on the charts, only one new album debuts in the top 50: Alter Ego by LISA of the K-pop group BLACKPINK and the latest season of White Lotus.

March 15, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
The coronavirus pandemic reordered almost everything about the music industry, from touring to streaming, interrupting careers and stealing lives.

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  • Music

How the pandemic changed music

In some ways, COVID shrank the distance between musicians and listeners. But then, it also threw nearly everything about the industry into disarray, and for many, things have never been the same.

March 15, 2025
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento,
  • Hazel Cills,
  • and 3 more
Music director Gianandrea Noseda conducts the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center on March 13.

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  • Arts & Life

Vice President Vance gets booed at the Kennedy Center

Symphony orchestra audiences aren't known for their rowdiness, but the vice president and second lady Usha Vance were loudly booed by the crowd as they entered the Concert Hall on Thursday night.

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
American composer Steve Reich has invented, developed and evolved interlocking patterns in his music for more than six decades.

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  • Music

Steve Reich has always been to able to hear the pulse

The 88-year-old composer, who talks as fast as the interlocking phrases of his music, looks back on crucial moments in a career that moved minimalism into the mainstream.

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
Angelique Kidjo is scheduled to perform at the Savannah Music Festival on March 29 and with the Atlanta Pops Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall on March 30, 2025.

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  • Music

Angélique Kidjo returns to Savannah and Atlanta, with joy in tow

From NPR's Tiny Desk to the recent reopening of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, Angélique Kidjo performs with an energy unlike any other international hitmaker. She's back in Georgia for two shows this month.

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Kristi York Wooten
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