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News Articles: Music

Members of the K-pop group Stray Kids attend the 2024 Met Gala in New York City. The group's latest album, <em>ATE</em>, topped the <em>Billboard </em>200 album chart in its opening week.

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  • Music

For the first time ever, K-pop groups have the top two albums on the U.S. charts

The latest album by Korean pop group Stray Kids debuted at the top of this week's Billboard 200 chart, and another K-pop sensation, Jimin from BTS, landed at No. 2. Shaboozey keeps the week's top song.

August 01, 2024
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  • Stephen Thompson
Two years after her breakthrough single, Ice Spice released her debut album, <em>Y2K!</em>, on July 26.

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  • Music

Ice Spice seized the moment — but maybe not the right one

The Bronx rapper's acid tongue and unbothered stance made her one of hip-hop's hottest prospects. On her debut album, Y2K!, her snowballing hype may have exceeded the reach of her pen.

August 01, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Oct. 1, 2024 is Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday. A concert featuring more than a dozens celebrities and musical acts will pay tribute to the former president at Atlanta's Fox Theatre on Sept. 17, 2024.

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  • News

Star-studded 'Jimmy Carter 100' concert celebrates former president's love for music, faith

A lineup featuring musicians Chuck Leavell, Maren Morris, the Drive-By Truckers, DJ D-Nice, The War and Treaty, Grouplove, Eric Church and more will perform at Atlanta's Fox Theatre on Sept. 17 in honor of the former president's 100th birthday. 

August 01, 2024
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  • GPB News Staff
Now in her 80s, the New York interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk remains best known for her extended vocal technique, a concept she found her way to in the 1960s.

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  • Music Interviews

‘The voice is my river’: Meredith Monk reflects on 6 decades of music-making

The revered interdisciplinary artist, now in her 80s, remains vigorous and regards the joy of curiosity as the key to staying young.

August 01, 2024
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  • Tom Huizenga
 Megan Thee Stallion performs on the main stage during the Broccoli City Festival at the Audi Field in Washington, D.C.

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  • Music

PHOTOS: Our favorite moments from the Broccoli City Festival in Washington, D.C.

Thousands of fans packed the Audi Field in Washington, D.C., to watch performances by Megan Thee Stallion, Victoria Monét, Gunna and more at this year's Broccoli City Festival.

July 30, 2024
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  • Alanté Serene
Musician Toumani Diabaté of Mali and his 21-string kora, photographed at WOMAD -- the World of Music, Arts and Dance festival held yearly in the United Kingdom. Diabaté died on July 19 at age 58.<br>

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  • Global Health

Toumani Diabaté plucked the kora's 21 strings. The world fell in love with his music

The musician died this month at age 58. His collaborators are paying tribute to "a great artist who belongs to the world.”

July 30, 2024
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  • Aaron Cohen
GPB  NPR

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  • Music Interviews

Conductor Thomas Wilkins asks orchestras to 'jump off a cliff' with him

The principal conductor of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra radiates an empathetic, Yoda-like wisdom when it comes to conjuring beautiful sounds from both pros and students.

July 30, 2024
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  • Lara Downes
 Prince on the custom motorcycle featured in <em>Purple Rain.</em>

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  • Movies

40 years after 'Purple Rain,' Prince’s band remembers how the movie came together

Before social media, the film Purple Rain gave audiences a peek into Prince’s musical life. Band members say the true genesis of the title song was much less combative than the version presented in the film.

July 29, 2024
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  • Eric Deggans
 Joey Berkley

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  • Music

An electrode in the brain restores the career of saxophonist Joey Berkley

Saxophonist Joey Berkley lost his ability to play due to the muscular disorder focal dystonia, but experimental treatment has given him enough flexibility to record a comeback album titled A Suite Life.

July 26, 2024
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  • Phil Harrell
Eminem on stage during the 2024 NFL Draft in April in Detroit, Mich.

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  • Music

Eminem breaks Taylor Swift’s 12-week run atop the album chart

Every album the rapper has released since 2000 has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) extends his streak. Also: Shaboozey returns to the top of the singles chart.

July 25, 2024
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  • Stephen Thompson
The artist's star power is distinctive and grounded in a moment where the music industry, and its ability to break dependable new artists, is chaotic.

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  • Music

What is it about Chappell Roan?

From TikTok feeds to television, breakout performances at Coachella and Governor’s Ball, the rising pop star has felt inescapable — and for good reason.

July 25, 2024
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  • Hazel Cills
The new album <em>Bando Stone & the New World</em>, billed as a soundtrack to a coming film, revives some of the anarchic spirit of Donald Glover's earliest work as Childish Gambino.

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  • Music

Childish Gambino, Denzel Curry and Curren$y channel rap's blog era

Three survivors of a chaotic moment in hip-hop conjure its best qualities, a decade and a few major career twists later, for three new albums released on the same day.

July 25, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
English blues singer John Mayall performs with his band The Bluesbreakers, on the stage of the Miles Davis Hall during the 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, on July 7, 2008.

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  • Obituaries

John Mayall, tireless and influential British blues pioneer, has died at 90

Mayall is credited with helping develop the English take on urban, Chicago-style rhythm and blues that played an important role in the blues revival of the late 1960s.

July 24, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Vice President Harris gets ready to speak to campaign staff at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., on Monday. Harris won the crucial backing of Democratic heavyweight Nancy Pelosi to lead the party against former President Donald Trump in November after President Biden's stunning exit from the 2024 race. As the endorsements stacked up, the 59-year-old Harris made her first public appearance since Biden's announcement in a ceremony at the White House, where she warmly praised the outgoing preside…

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  • Music

Harris walks out to Beyoncé’s 'Freedom' in her 1st appearance as a presidential candidate

The vice president, an avid Beyoncé fan, received a rare clearance to use the superstar's music before delivering a speech at her campaign headquarters in Delaware.

July 23, 2024
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  • Sidney Madden
Duke Fakir holds his life time achievement award backstage at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2009. Fakir, the last of the original Four Tops, died Monday of heart failure at age 88.

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  • Obituaries

Abdul 'Duke' Fakir, last of the original Four Tops, dies at 88

Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” has died at age 88.

July 23, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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