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News Articles: Music

Wuxtry Records in Athens, Ga.

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  • Music

Sense of Place: Wuxtry Records is the heart of Athens' musical legacy

R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and Danger Mouse are just some of this indie record store's former staffers.

May 13, 2024
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  • Raina Douris and
  • Miguel Perez
Brian Wilson, performing in Los Angeles in 2015.

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  • Music

Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys is being placed under a legal conservatorship

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge approved the conservatorship Thursday, noting that Brian Wilson suffers from "a major cognitive disorder." Wilson has agreed to the conservatorship.

May 13, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Nemo of Switzerland, who performed the song "The Code," celebrates after winning the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on Saturday.

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  • Television

Switzerland's Nemo wins Eurovision 2024 in a year of protests

The Swiss singer and rapper was one of two nonbinary artists in the finals at this year's event held in Malmo, Sweden. Meanwhile, protesters called for Israel's disqualification from the contest.

May 11, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman

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  • Games & Humor

'Wait Wait' for May 11, 2024: With Not My Job guest Chappell Roan

With the release of her album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Chappell Roan became a queer pop icon. Her hit songs include "Hot To Go!" but what does she know about to-go food?

May 11, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom

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  • Games & Humor

Chappell Roan talks drag personas and the worst way to find out you got a record deal

Queer pop icon Chappell Roan joins panelists Tom Papa, Brian Babylon, and Meredith Scardino to talk drag personas, the life changing magic of Ke$ha, and why her first record deal always makes her think about hot lunch

May 11, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Switzerland's Nemo rehearses "The Code" before the second semifinal.

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  • Television

Eurovision 2024: Here are the songs with the best shot at glory

Another year, another glitter-filled spectacle known as the Eurovision Song Contest. The Grand Final airs Saturday at 3:00 p.m. ET on Peacock in the United States.

May 11, 2024
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By:
  • Glen Weldon
The 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia.

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  • Music

Sense of Place: How Athens' 40 Watt Club helped usher in a new era of rock

The music venue in Georgia regularly hosted performances by bands like Pylon, R.E.M., of Montreal, and more.

May 10, 2024
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By:
  • Raina Douris and
  • Kimberly Junod
Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov fled his hometown of Kyiv for Berlin in early 2022.

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  • Music Reviews

What's past is present for Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov

The 86-year-old Kyiv native, living in exile in Berlin, has a new album of symphonic works that explores the idea of reminiscence.

May 10, 2024
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  • Tom Huizenga
Speranza Scappucci conducts singers on stage and the orchestra in the pit for the Washington National Opera's production of <em>Turandot</em>.

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  • Performing Arts

One of opera's greatest hits gets a new and happy ending in Washington

Giacomo Puccini's final opera Turandot gets a brand new ending premiered in Washington, with music by a composer known for video game tunes and a librettist who produced 'Succession'

May 10, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
Kendrick Lamar. Drake. A woman holding a child.

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  • Music

Drake and Kendrick are beefing, but who pays? Plus, moms as our social safety net

Drake and Kendrick have been trading diss tracks for weeks, and it's gotten darker and darker with each track. Drake accuses Kendrick of beating women, and Kendrick accuses Drake of abusing minors. It's a spectacle, but who are the pawns? Brittany chats with NPR Music's Sidney Madden and writer Tirhakah Love about the collateral damage in this rap beef.

Then, Brittany turns to Holding It Together a new book that describes how America has avoided building a social safety net and instead relies on women to provide the services that could be universal to all. Author Jessica Calarco joins the show to dive into the book and take a look at the cultural forces that keep women holding it all together.

May 10, 2024
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  • Barton Girdwood,
  • Alexis Williams,
  • and 5 more
<em></em>After a whirlwind rise, Dallas singer 4batz has released his debut mixtape, <em>u made me a st4r</em><em>.</em>

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  • Music Features

A new face, and new chapter, in R&B's unstoppable rap makeover

Dallas singer 4batz rose from obscurity to a breathlessly awaited debut in barely a year — but his arrival is part of a tense exchange between hip-hop and R&B more than a decade in the making.

May 09, 2024
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
Brian Kelley poses for a portrait outside his cabin Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.

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  • News

Life after Florida Georgia Line: Brian Kelley ready to reintroduce himself with new solo album

Best known as one-half of the country super-duo Florida Georgia Line, Brian Kelley will release a solo album, Tennessee Truth, on Friday. It is a collection of 12 anthemic, arena-sized country songs ripe for a road trip and tailgate in equal measure.

May 09, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Drake onstage during Drake's <em>Till Death Do Us</em> Part rap battle in 2021.

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  • Music

We process the explosive Drake-Kendrick beef

2024 seems destined to go down as the Year of Pop Culture Grievances. Megan vs. Nicki. Beyoncé vs. Nashville. But above all: Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake, who are currently engaged in the nastiest lyrical warfare rap fans have seen in a minute. Today, we're talking about all the pettiness: Why so much beef, and what makes a good battle? And is there ever a clear "winner" in these battles?

May 09, 2024
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  • Aisha Harris,
  • Shamira Ibrahim,
  • and 3 more
Steve Albini in his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago in 2023.

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  • Music

Steve Albini, iconoclastic rock musician and engineer, dies at 61

Albini led the abrasive underground rock bands Big Black and Shellac and recorded — by his own estimate — thousands of albums, including classics like Nirvana's In Utero and Pixies' Surfer Rosa.

May 08, 2024
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  • Lars Gotrich
Kendrick Lamar performs during the Rolling Loud hip-hop festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2023 and Drake performs during day two of Lollapalooza Chile 2023. Last week, the two rappers' long-running feud exploded in a flurry of diss tracks.<a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/license/1515117715?adppopup=true"></a>

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  • Music

Taking the toll of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's vicious, gripping psychological warfare

As the jolt of adrenaline lit by the clash between the two biggest rappers of a generation fades, it's worth holding onto the possibility — however slim — that something new can grow from the chaos.

May 08, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
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