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News Articles: Music

Julien Baker and Torres perform at The Luck Reunion Festival 2025 at Luck Ranch on March 13, 2025 in Spicewood, Texas.

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  • Music

The best bands we saw at SXSW 2025

Public radio stations were on the ground in Austin for this year's SXSW Music festival.

March 18, 2025
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  • The NPR Network
Playboi Carti onstage in February, performing with The Weeknd during the 67th Grammy Awards. The rapper's long-delayed third studio album is titled, simply, <em>Music</em>.

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  • Music Features

Playboi Carti, a rap superstar who's never acted like one

MUSIC is the elusive rapper's first album in five years, but his presence has loomed heavy over hip-hop — and the fanbase whose ears he retuned for extremity.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
Playboi Carti onstage in February, performing with The Weeknd during the 67th Grammy Awards. The rapper's long-delayed third studio album is titled, simply, <em>Music</em>.

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  • Music Features

Playboi Carti, a rap superstar who's never acted like one

MUSIC is the elusive rapper's first album in five years, but his presence has loomed heavy over hip-hop — and the fanbase whose ears he retuned for extremity.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
Jesse Colin Young performs live in 1973.

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  • Music

Jesse Colin Young, singer of The Youngbloods' 'Get Together,' dies at 83

Prolific musician Jesse Colin Young, best known for being the voice of the '60s folk-rock anthem "Get Together," died on Sunday at age 83.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Annie Zaleski
This week, only one album debuts in the top 50: <em>Alter Ego</em> by LISA of the K-pop group BLACKPINK.

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  • Music

LISA is BLACKPINK's latest member to crack the top 10

This week on the charts, only one new album debuts in the top 50: Alter Ego by LISA of the K-pop group BLACKPINK and the latest season of White Lotus.

March 15, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
The coronavirus pandemic reordered almost everything about the music industry, from touring to streaming, interrupting careers and stealing lives.

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  • Music

How the pandemic changed music

In some ways, COVID shrank the distance between musicians and listeners. But then, it also threw nearly everything about the industry into disarray, and for many, things have never been the same.

March 15, 2025
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento,
  • Hazel Cills,
  • and 3 more
Music director Gianandrea Noseda conducts the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center on March 13.

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  • Arts & Life

Vice President Vance gets booed at the Kennedy Center

Symphony orchestra audiences aren't known for their rowdiness, but the vice president and second lady Usha Vance were loudly booed by the crowd as they entered the Concert Hall on Thursday night.

March 14, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair
American composer Steve Reich has invented, developed and evolved interlocking patterns in his music for more than six decades.

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  • Music

Steve Reich has always been to able to hear the pulse

The 88-year-old composer, who talks as fast as the interlocking phrases of his music, looks back on crucial moments in a career that moved minimalism into the mainstream.

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
Angelique Kidjo is scheduled to perform at the Savannah Music Festival on March 29 and with the Atlanta Pops Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall on March 30, 2025.

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  • Music

Angélique Kidjo returns to Savannah and Atlanta, with joy in tow

From NPR's Tiny Desk to the recent reopening of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, Angélique Kidjo performs with an energy unlike any other international hitmaker. She's back in Georgia for two shows this month.

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Kristi York Wooten
Clockwise, from top left: Dolly Parton, The Shirelles, Patti Smith (courtesy of Steve Harlow/Flickr) and Mahalia Jackson (courtesy of Nationaal Archief)

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  • Music

100 years, 100 moments: How women shaped a century of music

For Women's History Month, World Cafe is exploring 100 years of music history with a timeline of 100 moments.

March 13, 2025
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By:
  • Miguel Perez
Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina's music probed religion, philosophy and the joy of sound itself.

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  • Obituaries

Sofia Gubaidulina, the composer who fused sound and spirituality, has died at age 93

One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina wrote bold music, inspired by Eastern and Western philosophies, and the joy of sound itself.

March 13, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Huizenga
Extended silence during a concert often feels like a gift an audience grants a beloved artist, like Barbra Streisand, whose devotees at one show sat in almost unbearable anticipation to hear her sing.

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  • Music

When music provokes utter silence

Critic Ann Powers considers musical performances that have left audiences stunned in utter silence, and what you can hear when sound falls away.

March 13, 2025
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By:
  • Ann Powers
You think they were dancing to Kylie Minogue back in 1978?

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  • Arts & Life

The soundtrack to King Charles' life features music from Kylie Minogue

King Charles III has admitted he is not impervious to a generational earworm like Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" after sharing a playlist that represents the soundtrack of his life.

March 10, 2025
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
"You made me drеam / More than I dared," Parton sings on the song. "And I wouldn't be hеre / If you hadn't been there."

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  • Music

Dolly Parton pays homage to late husband Carl Dean with 'If You Hadn't Been There'

Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, died Monday. On Friday at midnight, Parton released the song "If You Hadn't Been There" in his memory.

March 10, 2025
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Olly Alexander's Polari is an exploration of queer identity that includes songs like "Cupid's Bow."

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  • Music

Olly Alexander deciphers queer identity on Polari

The album's namesake, Polari, is a set of a few hundred words and phrases that was adopted by gay men as a way of speaking in secret during periods of criminalization.

March 09, 2025
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  • Ryan Benk
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