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News Articles: Music

Jon Bon Jovi, pictured at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sunday, is credited with helping save a woman's life on a Nashville bridge just days later.

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Jon Bon Jovi helps talk a woman off the ledge of a bridge while filming a music video

Bon Jovi spotted a woman on the ledge of the pedestrian bridge where his crew was filming in Nashville late Tuesday. The singer and a team member helped her over the railing and back to safety.

September 12, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Post Malone, Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter laugh backstage at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday in Elmont, N.Y.

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  • Music News

Swift sweeps, Chiles gets her bronze and other highlights from a star-studded VMAs

The 40th MTV Video Music Awards celebrated today’s biggest stars and songs, as well as iconic moments from its own history. Here are some of the night's best moments and biggest winners.

September 12, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Sabrina Carpenter, seen here performing at the 2024 Governors Ball held at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on June 8, 2024, in Queens, N.Y., had multiple hits in contention for the song of the summer — but neither "Espresso" nor "Please Please Please" was the season's champion.

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  • Music News

Summers may come and go, but the songs of the summer last forever

All summer, a wide range of hits were in the running for the biggest songs of the season — country singalongs, rap diss tracks, pop kiss-offs and rock epics. But two took the race down to the wire.

September 11, 2024
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  • Stephen Thompson
Frankie Beverly performs with Maze at the 2009 Summer Soul Concert series at Newark Symphony Hall in Newark, N.J.

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  • Obituaries

Frankie Beverly, R&B and funk legend, dies at 77

As the leader of Maze, Beverly crafted songs like the slinky, euphoric "Happy Feelin’s" and the breakup anthem "Before I Let Go," wedding his dulcet singing to buoyant grooves.

September 11, 2024
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  • Sidney Madden
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Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris for president — will it matter?

Swift wrote on Instagram, "I need to be very transparent about my actual plans for this election as a voter." How much sway do stars really have when it comes to putting the next president in the White House?

September 11, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
MJ Lenderman's fifth solo album, <em>Manning Fireworks</em>, finds inspiration in The Band and the Drive-By Truckers.

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  • Music

MJ Lenderman joins rock and roll’s lineage of heartbreak kids

Ann Powers considers the breakthrough of indie rock up-and-comer MJ Lenderman, and finds that he’s got some classic rock in his tales of romantic woe.

September 11, 2024
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  • Ann Powers
From left to right, Michael O. Leavitt, Tabernacle Choir President; Mack Wilberg, Tabernacle Choir Music Director; Dr. David Morrow, Morehouse College Glee Club director; Dr. Kevin Johnson, Spelman College Glee Club director; and Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered for a press conference at State Farm Arena on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 ahead of the free Wednesday night concert. Ambria Burton/GPB News

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Morehouse and Spelman students reflect on the power of music between Tabernacle Choir performances

The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will perform a free concert at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Wednesday, Sept. 11, alongside the glee clubs of Morehouse and Spelman Colleges.

September 11, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
In her Instagram post, Taylor Swift said she was voting for Kamala Harris because "she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them."

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  • Elections

Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris in Instagram post after the debate

In an Instagram post after the presidential debate on Tuesday night, Taylor Swift said she was voting for Kamala Harris.

September 11, 2024
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  • Elena Moore
Kendrick Lamar performs at last summer's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn.

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  • Music News

Kendrick Lamar will headline next year's Super Bowl halftime show

The Grammy-winning rapper, who spent this summer topping the charts, previously performed at the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show. But this will be his first Super Bowl as the headliner.

September 10, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
Christie Dashiell sings, and Antonio Hart plays saxophone, on opening night of DC Jazzfest with the DC Jazz All-Stars at the Hamilton Live in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, August 28, 2024. Photo by Cheriss May, for NPR.

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  • Music

PHOTOS: The DC Jazz Festival celebrates 20 years!

For its 20th anniversary, the DC Jazz Festival featured performances throughout the Washington, D.C., area culminating in a weekend jam-packed with performances stretched across several venues at The Wharf in Southwest Washington.

September 09, 2024
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  • Mitra I. Arthur
Dan Morgenstern is pictured at Satchmo Summerfest in New Orleans in 2012.

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  • Obituaries

Jazz historian and critic Dan Morgenstern dies at 94

Over the course of seven decades, Morgenstern helmed major jazz magazines, wrote books, produced concerts, won multiple Grammys, taught college and oversaw one of the world's largest jazz archives.

September 08, 2024
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  • Tom Vitale
<em>Woodland</em>, the new album by Gillian Welch (left) and David Rawlings, is the latest in a long collaboration between two musicians who have built careers — and an influential legacy — out of the magnetic interplay between their voices and the strength of their musical ideas.

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  • Music

'Woodland' is the sound of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings rebuilding together following disaster

The magnetic bond between Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, partners in life and in music, has always been central to their songs. On their latest album, the "we" becomes existential.

September 07, 2024
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  • Jenn Pelly
Rapper Rich Homie Quan performs in Hollywood, Calif. on April 1, 2015. That year, he had his biggest hit, "Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh)."

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  • Music

Rich Homie Quan, a hitmaker who helped rap evolve, dies at 34

The Atlanta hip-hop star Rich Homie Quan rose to fame nationally in 2013 with his first hit single “Type of Way” and had a short but intense burst of success. He died Thursday.

September 07, 2024
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  • Rodney Carmichael
Sérgio Mendes speaks at the event "Reel To Reel: Sérgio Mendes — In The Key Of Joy" at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on March 11, 2020.

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  • Obituaries

Brazilian music legend Sérgio Mendes dies at 83

The Grammy-winning musician, whose hit “Mas Que Nada” helped make him a global ambassador for Brazilian music, died after months battling the effects of long COVID.

September 06, 2024
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  • Julia Carneiro
Competition and Markets Authority, a U.K. regulator, launched an investigation into how Ticketmaster priced its tickets for the Oasis reunion tour next summer and whether the company was transparent about it ahead of time.

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  • Business

U.K. is investigating Ticketmaster after Oasis tour prices surprised fans

British regulators are looking into how Ticketmaster uses "dynamic pricing" to hike prices in line with demand. A similar controversy prompted a federal lawsuit against the company in the U.S.

September 06, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
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