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News Articles: Music

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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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
Taylor Swift, seen onstage in Amsterdam earlier this month during the European leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour, has broken another record with her latest album, <em>The Tortured Poets Department.</em>

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  • Music

This may sound like a broken record, but Taylor Swift has broken another record

Swift's The Tortured Poets Department has been the biggest album in the country for 12 consecutive weeks, the longest run atop that chart of her career.

July 19, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
The 2024 Kennedy Center honorees (clockwise from left): the Apollo Theater; the Grateful Dead (Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann); jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval; blues rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Bonnie Raitt; and director and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.

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  • Arts & Life

Grateful Dead, Francis Ford Coppola, Bonnie Raitt on 2024 Kennedy Center Honors list

The award for lifetime artistic achievements will also recognize jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval. The Apollo Theater will receive a special Honors as "an iconic American institution."

July 19, 2024
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Sixwire performs the national anthem at the Music City Grand Prix in August 2023 in Nashville, Tenn.

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  • News

What to know about Sixwire, the RNC band supplying the dad rock each night during prime time

So far, the group has entertained viewers with renditions of such hits as "Life is a Highway," "All Star," "What I Like About You," "Don't Stop Believin' " and "Reelin' in the Years," among other "dad jams."

July 18, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Bernice Johnson Reagon, seen here at the memorial celebration for Odetta at Riverside Church in 2009 in New York City.

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  • Obituaries

Bernice Johnson Reagon, a founder of The Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, has died

The songleader, civil rights activist and scholar died Tuesday at the age of 81.

July 18, 2024
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  • Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
Eminem performs at the event "Live from Detroit: The Concert at Michigan Central" on June 6, 2024.

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  • Music

Eminem and Common confront the same milestone — middle age — from opposite angles

The two veteran rappers read as comic inversions of one another on their new albums, by turns renewed and restrained by the instincts that defined them at the start of their careers.

July 18, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
J. Harrison Ghee performs as The Lady Chablis in a scene set at Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery, surrounded by ensemble members.

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  • Performing Arts

Review: ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’ takes the stage in lively musical adaptation

The musical's producers hope to bring Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil to Broadway after its initial run in Chicago. GPB Savannah reporter Benjamin Payne attended opening night in Chicago, and has this review.

July 18, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
As folk duo West of Roan, Annie Schermer (left) and Channing Showalter seek the commonalities among legends, myths and folktales from diverse spots on the globe.

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  • Music

West of Roan collects ancient folktales — not personal folklore

In an era when connecting the tidbits of an artist’s private life can seem more important than following a musical thread between songs, West of Roan's Queen of Eyes revives faith in the power of the concept album.

July 18, 2024
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  • Ann Powers
Young Thug performs during halftime of a game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Boston Celtics on Nov. 17, 2021, at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Ga.

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  • Music

Why the judge in Young Thug’s trial was just recused from the case

Fulton County Chief Judge Ural Glanville was taken off the YSL RICO case this week after his actions in an ex parte meeting were deemed damaging to public perception of the case.

July 17, 2024
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  • Sidney Madden
Ingrid Andress sings the national anthem prior to the 2024 Home Run Derby at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, on Monday.

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  • Music

Ingrid Andress, whose national anthem went viral, says she was drunk

The country star says she intends to check herself into rehab.

July 16, 2024
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  • Stephen Thompson
Marshall Allen, who will be included in the class of Jazz Masters awarded by the NEA next year, performs onstage at the 2024 A Great Night In Harlem Gala at the Apollo Theater in New York City in March.

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  • Music

Marshall Allen and Chucho Valdés included in 2025 class of NEA Jazz Masters

A saxophonist of otherworldly gusto, two pianists of impulsive eloquence and a critic with a pen nearly as sharp as his ears are the latest selections for the the nation's highest honor for jazz.

July 16, 2024
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  • Nate Chinen
Shaboozey performs during the 2024 BET Awards in Los Angeles in June 2024.

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  • Music

Shaboozey's slow-burning hybrid of hip-hop and country is finally the biggest song in the land

This week, Shaboozey becomes only the second Black artist ever to top Billboard's pop and country singles charts at the same time. The first, earlier this year, was his collaborator, Beyoncé.

July 12, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Recording artist Stacii Adams

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  • Music

These musicians are filming music video in Macon. Here’s how you can be in the shoot

Grammy Award-winning artist Anthony Hamilton will be part of a music video shoot in Macon, teaming up with Stacii Adams to do a video for Adams’ song “Happy Days.”

July 12, 2024
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  • Myracle Lewis
Zach Bryan's fifth album in five years, <em>The Great American Bar Scene</em>, features love songs, thorny anthems, autobiographical lore and even a mini-arc that directly invokes classic Bruce Springsteen songs.

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  • Music

Zach Bryan makes — and breaks — his own myth on 'The Great American Bar Scene'

Bruce Springsteen, 40 years on from Born in the U.S.A., shows up on Bryan’s new album to offer the wisdom and regret of a lifetime of telling truths and spinning yarns.

July 09, 2024
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  • Ann Powers
A woman cools herself with a fan during a hot day in London on June 26, 2024. June 2024 was the hottest June on record, according to Europe's Copernicus climate service.

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  • Climate

June sizzled to a 13th straight monthly heat record, but July might break string

It's not that records are being broken monthly but they are being "shattered by very substantial margins over the past 13 months," a climate scientist said.

July 08, 2024
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  • Associated Press
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