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News Articles: Music

D. M. Therrell High School students and their teacher, Sam Davis, far right, gather in their podcast recording room, with funding help from Save The Music, for a photograph Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Atlanta.

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Save the Music Foundation looks to expand its school education support by going independent

The VH1 Save the Music Foundation never had any problem getting attention in the late '90s when it launched with a party featuring Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. But the foundation needs to broaden its donor base to expand its work.

January 30, 2025
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Ela Minus album cover for DÍA

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Ela Minus makes beats for 'dancing and crying'

Colombian musician Ela Minus unites the excitement of the dance club with the more human touch of analog synthesizers on her new album DÍA.

January 30, 2025
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  • Phil Harrell,
  • Milton Guevara,
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Christie Dashiell at The Mansion at Strathmore in Rockville, Md.

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Christie Dashiell became a musician at school. Then, she became an artist

Reflecting on a transformative residency program, the jazz vocalist now nominated for her first Grammy Award says her album Journey in Black reflects "the expansiveness of the Black experience."

January 30, 2025
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  • Patrick Jarenwattananon
Rapper and deejay DJ Unk (Anthony Leonard Platt) poses for photos after his performance during the 'School Jump-Off' concert at the DuSable Museum in Chicago, Illinois in June 2007.

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Unk's 'Walk It Out' defined a fun, hyperlocal moment in Atlanta rap history

The rapper and DJ, who died over the weekend at 43, was the biggest hit for the indie label Big Oomp Records. Its brief but shining moment injected fun back into a scene in transition.

January 29, 2025
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  • Maurice Garland
Charley Crockett at the Yaamava' Resort & Casino in San Bernardino.

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Country singer Charley Crockett is 'afraid of getting fenced in'

Charley Crockett has come a long way from his days busking on the streets of New Orleans. Now, he performs at theaters in front of thousands of people. To cap it all off, he's up for his first Grammy.

January 29, 2025
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  • Christopher Intagliata
"Pretty much any Saturday that The Roots aren't touring and they're taping, I'm in the audience watching," Questlove says of <em>SNL</em>.

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Questlove charts 50 years of SNL musical hits (and misses)

Questlove's documentary, Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music, highlights the show's most iconic musical performances and comedy sketches — and addresses the show's "unhummable" theme song.

January 27, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
Questlove at the 2023 Academy Awards. His documentary, <em>Ladies and Gentlemen … 50 Years of SNL Music, </em>airs Monday on NBC.

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8 revelations from Questlove's new doc about SNL's music

Questlove's newest documentary features interviews and clips from 50 years of musical performances on Saturday Night Live.

January 27, 2025
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  • Eric Deggans
FKA twigs — the English singer, dancer and actor Tahliah Debrett Barnett — is out with a new album, <em>Eusexua</em>.

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FKA twigs is out with a new album inspired by underground raves

FKA twigs — the English singer, dancer, and actor Tahliah Debrett Barnett — is out with her third studio album, Eusexua.

January 24, 2025
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  • Noah Caldwell,
  • Juana Summers,
  • and 1 more
A previously unreleased Tina Turner song, "Hot for You Baby" from the 1980s, has been rediscovered. Turner is pictured above performing in Paris in 1987.

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Lost Tina Turner song is just OK, say critics. But that's not why it matters.

Originally recorded for the rock star's major album Private Dancer, "Hot For You Baby" was thought lost.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman and
  • Jennifer Vanasco
Garth Hudson performs in 2012 at the Love For Levon benefit concert in East Rutherford, N.J., a memorial tribute to his bandmate Levon Helm.

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  • Music

Garth Hudson, The Band's last founding member, dies at 87

The Canadian musician played keyboard, organ and saxophone on some of group's most memorable songs.

January 24, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Bad Bunny on stage in Miami in May 2024. The Puerto Rican singer's latest album, <em>Debí Tirar Más Fotos</em>, topped <em>Billboard</em>'s album chart this week.

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Bad Bunny blessed with Billboard's biggest boosts (and Bruno bolsters his bona fides)

Bad Bunny, who had the most-streamed album of both 2022 and 2023, seems to have another potential juggernaut on his hands. But to top the chart this week he had to hold off an unlikely challenger.

January 24, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Aisha Kahlil (top row, fourth from left) has been a member of Sweet Honey in the Rock since 1981. The vocal ensemble with Georgia ties will perform in Atlanta on Jan. 25, 2025. Current members also include Carol Maillard, Louise Robinson, Nitanju Bolade Casel and Romeir Mendez on electric and upright acoustic bass.

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  • Music

'Simmering the sound' for 50 years: Vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock returns to Georgia

For more than 50 years, the women in Sweet Honey in the Rock have delivered harmonies about justice and civil rights to stages across the globe.

January 24, 2025
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  • Kristi York Wooten
In his new album, <em>Amours Interdites</em>, French pianist David Kadouch highlights music by gay composers whose concealed their sexuality because it wasn't accepted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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  • Music

Pianist David Kadouch probes gay composers' hidden loves, through music

In his album Amours Interdites (Forbidden Love) French pianist David Kadouch explores music by gay composers who concealed their sexuality in societies that wouldn't otherwise accept them.

January 24, 2025
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  • Olivia Hampton
British singer Petula Clark's single "Downtown" hit the number one spot on the U.S. billboard charts in 1965. At 92, she's planning a concert in London.

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Petula Clark teases London show 60 years after 'Downtown' made her a star in the U.S.

Petula Clark's single "Downtown" hit the number one spot on the US billboard charts 60 years ago, on January 23, 1965, and stayed there for two weeks. At 92, she's planning a concert in London.

January 23, 2025
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  • Olivia Hampton
Ichiro Suzuki looks on before a game between the Seattle Mariners and the St. Louis Cardinals on April 21, 2023 in Seattle, Wash. Suzuki was elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame Tuesday following his stellar career.

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When Ichiro retired, his records felt 'small' compared to the emotional moments

Ichiro Suzuki's career was full of hitting streaks, All-Star Games and Gold Glove awards. But all that paled compared to moments with fans like his farewell at the Tokyo Dome in 2019, he said.

January 23, 2025
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  • Becky Sullivan
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