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News Articles: Music

View of Guitar Center in Hollywood, Calif.

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From bankruptcy to IPO in a year? It's a tune Guitar Center might play

Mattress Firm, Claire's, Guitar Center are bankruptcy survivors going from a year of shuttered stores to planning a new life as publicly traded companies.

October 20, 2021
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  • Alina Selyukh
Gil Rose and Boston Modern Orchestra Project recording in Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Mass.

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  • Music

Boston Modern Orchestra Project is honored for championing overlooked American music

The Gramophone Classical Music Awards recognized the group known as BMOP for its extraordinary service to overlooked American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

October 20, 2021
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By:
  • Andrea Shea
Lara Downes, whose series <em>Rising Sun Music</em> re-centers compositions from historically marginalized composers.

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  • New Music

Pianist Lara Downes re-centers the music of the Great Migration

Pianist Lara Downes' latest mini-album traces the story of the Great Migration of Black Americans from the south in the early to mid-20th century, with music by Florence Price and Harry T. Burleigh.

October 20, 2021
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By:
  • A Martínez
Ye, then known as Kanye West, attends the Versace fall 2019 fashion show on Dec. 2, 2018 in New York City.

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  • Music

Kanye West is now officially 'Ye'

The change has been in the works since at least since 2018, when he released a studio album by that name. He has cited its biblical significance as "you," noting "So I'm you, I'm us, it's us."

October 19, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
GPB News NPR

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  • Global Health

Coronavirus FAQ: I'm vaccinated. Is it OK to sing into a karaoke mic again?

During the pandemic, karaoke has been kayoed due to fears of viral spread. If you've got a song in your heart and a vaccine in your arm, is it safe to pick up a karaoke mic in public?

October 18, 2021
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By:
  • Vicky Hallett
Z The Author submitted the song "Khali's Interlude" to the 2021 Tiny Desk Contest.

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  • Music Interviews

Meet Z The Author, a standout artist from the 2021 Tiny Desk Contest

Each year, the Tiny Desk Contest attracts thousands of impressive unsigned artists from across the country — including Z The Author, who sent in a song inspired by 2020's Black Lives Matter protests.

October 16, 2021
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  • Scott Simon and
  • Ned Wharton
PinkPantheress

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  • Music Interviews

PinkPantheress reimagines garage music for a new generation

The internet's buzziest new artist talks creating her new mixtape to hell with it, sample culture, and nostalgia

October 15, 2021
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  • Mano Sundaresan
Camila Cabello performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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  • Music

Camila Cabello: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Pop sensation Camila Cabello brings her famous hits back home, backing powerful vocals with Cuban congueros and Mexican mariachi.

October 15, 2021
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  • Anamaria Sayre
Tracy Chapman's debut album "was the music that I needed at a time when I felt pressure to know everything before it was taught," says writer and scholar Francesca T. Royster.

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  • Music Features

Meeting Tracy Chapman In The Spaces Between

After Chapman released her 1988 debut, she was everywhere in pop and always on the mind of writer Francesca T. Royster. Hearing that album, she writes, "helped me say what I hadn't yet said out loud."

October 15, 2021
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  • Francesca T. Royster
Adele, "Easy On Me"

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  • New Music

Adele, 'Easy On Me'

The first single from 30, Adele's new album due out Nov. 19, is an achingly honest and hopeful ballad that acknowledges internal demons while calling for tender patience.

October 14, 2021
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  • LaTesha Harris
The percussion ensemble Recap has released its striking debut album, <em>Count to Five</em>.

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  • Music Reviews

A young, all-women ensemble upends the percussion paradigm

The members of Recap, four young women of color from New Jersey, have built a mission of gender equity into their striking debut album.

October 14, 2021
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  • Tom Huizenga
"My music is where I'm able to release feelings and have fun with it," Wolf tells NPR. "I love for my shows to be a big party. So when I'm performing, if it's my release, I want it to be a release for other people."

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  • Music Interviews

Remi Wolf's rule-breaking pop pushes her closer to superstar status

The colorful singer behind viral hit "Photo ID" is releasing her debut album, Juno. Using music to navigate struggles with sobriety, Wolf talks about vulnerability and creating to release feelings.

October 14, 2021
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By:
  • LaTesha Harris
Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed and Moe Tucker from archival photography in a split-screen frame from "The Velvet Underground."

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  • Music

Todd Haynes' new film takes us deep into The Velvet Underground

In his first documentary, filmmaker Todd Haynes uses the language of experimental cinema to spotlight the Velvet Underground, a legendary band that flowered within New York's avant-garde art world.

October 14, 2021
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By:
  • Allyson McCabe
The National Museum of African American Music, in Nashville.

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  • Music

A new museum in Nashville centers the artistry of Black musicians

Nashville has long been associated with country music. But a museum devoted to African-American music, which opened earlier this year, sets the record straight about the city's diversity

October 14, 2021
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By:
  • Ambriehl Crutchfield
GPB News NPR

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  • Education

Music classes are back in school this year, finally indoors and off Zoom

For many students, band and choir classes were a far cry from normal last year — students practiced outside or over Zoom. With students back in school this fall, music classes look almost normal.

October 13, 2021
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  • Craig LeMoult
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