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A view of the Metropolitan Opera ticketing office in 2018.

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  • Music News

Met Opera Says It Won't Return Until Fall 2021

Opera fans will have to wait another whole year for live performances at the famed New York house. In a press release Wednesday, the Metropolitan Opera says it plans to reopen on Sept. 27, 2021.

September 23, 2020
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
An undated portrait of the violinist Lara St. John.

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  • Music News

Top Music School Finds Sexual Abuse Allegations From Violinist 'Credible'

In a report released Tuesday evening, Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music said that violinist Lara St. John's account of being raped and sexually abused by her teacher is credible.

September 23, 2020
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Dua Lipa released her second album, the glossy, pristine <em>Future Nostalgia</em>, in March, just weeks after COVID-19 locked the world into quarantine. The sure-footedness of her dance floor-inspired pop gained ironic resonance in the uncertainty of the moment that followed.

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  • Music Features

How Dua Lipa's Day-Glo Nostalgia Found A Home In Dark Times

A pair of euphoric projects have helped to make the singer a ray of light for pop fans longing for the dance floor in a year filled with calamity.

September 23, 2020
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By:
  • Jason King
Doug Carn, left, with his wife, Jean Carn, in a detail from the cover of their album <em>Spirit of the New Land</em>, released on Black Jazz Records in 1972.

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  • Music Features

Rediscovering The Enormous Social And Spiritual Legacy Of Black Jazz Records

As jazz experienced an awakening in the late '60s and early '70s , a record label from Oakland was at the forefront of capturing it. Now, those records are finally returning.

September 23, 2020
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By:
  • Martin Johnson
Michelle Obama speaks during a 2016 event at the White House with the cast of the Broadway play "Hamilton."

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  • Elections

'Hamilton' Cast Re-imagines Show's Lyrics To Promote Voter Registration Day

The performance was part of a virtual voter turnout event hosted by former first lady Michelle Obama and the nonprofit When We All Vote.

September 22, 2020
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  • Sam Gringlas
Oddisee plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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  • Music Videos

Oddisee: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The rapper convened a live band for his five-song Tiny Desk quarantine concert.

September 22, 2020
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By:
  • Suraya Mohamed
Sylvan Esso.

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  • Music News

Sylvan Esso Will Join NPR Music's Listening Party For 'Free Love'

Friday at 3 p.m. ET, NPR Music will host an online listening party for Sylvan Esso's new album, featuring a conversation with members Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn.

September 21, 2020
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  • Lars Gotrich
BTS plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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  • Music Videos

BTS: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The most popular band in the world performs three songs with a live band for Tiny Desk's quarantine series.

September 21, 2020
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  • Stephen Thompson
Alicia Keys' seventh album, <em>Alicia</em>, is out now.

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  • Music Interviews

Alicia Keys Wants You To Know You're Doing Great

Keys speaks with Audie Cornish about delivering her seventh album, Alicia, during the pandemic, and the strange new resonance of songs written before anyone knew what this year would be like.

September 18, 2020
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By:
  • Audie Cornish and
  • Mano Sundaresan
A 1939 portrait of opera singer Lawrence Tibbett, the co-founder and first president of the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA).

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  • Music News

Whistleblowers Allege Culture Of Secrecy, Protection Of Powerful At Singers' Union

They point to a real estate deal that could drain two-thirds of the American Guild of Musical Artists' financial reserves and a secretive, failed deal with disgraced opera star Plácido Domingo.

September 18, 2020
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
(L-R) Desus Nice and The Kid Mero in DESUS & MERO "Su-Su-Sucio". Photo Credit: Greg Endries/SHOWTIME.

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  • Music Lists

Desus & Mero's Favorite Tiny Desk Concerts

Late-night hosts and comedians Desus Nice and The Kid Mero pick their favorite Tiny Desk concerts.

September 18, 2020
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  • The Kid Mero and
  • Desus Nice
Black Sabbath circa 1970.

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  • Music News

50 Years Ago, Black Sabbath Found Its Sound And Took Metal Worldwide

Recorded in a few days and released just months after the band's self-titled debut, Paranoid delivered bleak but unforgettable songs about war, corruption and trauma.

September 18, 2020
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By:
  • Bo Hamby
Yusuf's <em>Tea for the Tillerman 2</em> is a reimagining of his 1970 album as Cat Stevens.

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  • Music Interviews

Yusuf Revisits 'Tea For The Tillerman,' His Landmark Album As Cat Stevens

Known as Yusuf since becoming a Muslim in the late '70s, the man who was Cat Stevens discusses Tea for the Tillerman 2, a reimagining of his now-50-year-old masterpiece.

September 17, 2020
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By:
  • Rachel Martin and
  • Phil Harrell
Stanley Crouch, photographed during The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music's Beacon Awards Gala on Feb. 27, 2006 in New York.

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  • Music News

Stanley Crouch, Towering Jazz Critic, Dead At 74

Crouch's engagement with American culture spanned over five decades, numerous mediums and many dustups. His influence on the life and shape of jazz will remain unquantifiable.

September 16, 2020
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  • Ethan Iverson
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  • Music Interviews

Indigo Girls' New Song Is About Patience And Fortitude In The COVID-19 Era

Amy Ray and Emily Saliers rarely write together, but the unique challenges of the pandemic inspired the veteran folk-rockers to try true collaboration for the first time in years.

September 16, 2020
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  • David Greene and
  • Vince Pearson
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