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News Articles: Music

For <em>Left Hand</em>, Becca Mancari produced the album themselves, creating their most expansive work yet.

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  • Music Reviews

Becca Mancari fights for their existence with an expanded pop palette

On Left Hand, Mancari positions themselves in the eye of sonic storms to communicate emotional truths with startling clarity.

August 24, 2023
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  • Jewly Hight
Demi Lovato, Scooter Braun and Ariana Grande.

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  • Music

Major artists are reportedly ditching their A-list manager. Here's what's going on

Entertainment mogul Scooter Braun discovered Justin Bieber and has managed the careers of Ariana Grande and K-pop star Psy. Now some of his biggest stars are reportedly parting ways with him.

August 24, 2023
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Billy McFarland, pictured in 2018, said he's relaunching the infamous Fyre Festival in response to "interest and demand" in his ability "to bring people from around the world together to make the impossible happen."

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  • Arts & Life

Billy McFarland went to prison for Fyre Fest. Are his plans for a reboot legal?

The controversial entrepreneur is seeking redemption and some people are ready for him to try. Tickets have sold out. But he still owes $26 million in restitution to the people he fleeced.

August 24, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
Oliver Anthony performs in Moyock, North Carolina, on Saturday.

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  • Politics

The viral song 'Rich Men North of Richmond' made its way to the RNC debate stage

The breakout song by an artist who goes by Oliver Anthony laid the groundwork to open the first Republican presidential debate for the 2024 election. But the song has notes of conspiracy theories.

August 24, 2023
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  • Odette Yousef
Nearly 500,000 people gathered in Cali, Colombia for the 27th annual Petronio Alvarez Festival. Nidia Góngora and her group Canalón de Timbiquí performed on the main stage.

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  • Arts & Life

Welcome to 'El Petronio,' the biggest celebration of Afro-Colombian music and culture

The Petronio Alvarez Festival has been the biggest source of income for artists, cooks and vendors in the Pacific region. But some critics say they want the festival to return to its roots.

August 23, 2023
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  • Betto Arcos
A woman passes by a mural of the rapper Biggie Smalls on a wall in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

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  • Author Interviews

As hip-hop turns 50, Biggie Smalls' legacy reminds us of what the genre has survived

Author Justin Tinsley discusses the life and legacy of the Notorious B.I.G., who was killed in 1997: "You can't talk about the story of hip-hop without mentioning the name Biggie Smalls."

August 23, 2023
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  • Tonya Mosley
Genesis Owusu

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  • Music News

'Struggler' is Genesis Owusu's bold follow-up to his hit debut album

Genesis Owusu has won just about every award he could in his home country of Australia with his debut album. Now with album number two, he's ready to take on America.

August 21, 2023
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  • A Martinez, Phil Harrell
Jon Batiste performs at the Newport Folk festival on August 5, 2023. Batiste, a riveting live performer who has led the band at <em>The Late Show</em> and won an album of the year Grammy, just released a studio album, <em>World Music Radio</em>, that feels like an attempt to consolidate his billowing talent into a stable unit, like squeezing a genie back into the bottle.

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  • Music

When the world's your stage, can an album capture the feeling?

New albums by Jon Batiste and Louis Cato arrive with high expectations. Both — as their experience leading led the band at Stephen Colbert's The Late Show has proved — are stellar live performers.

August 21, 2023
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  • Nate Chinen
Megan Thee Stallion performs onstage during the 2023 LA Pride in the Park Festival. In the first episode of its second season, the <em>Louder Than A Riot</em> podcast examines the backlash Megan faced after being shot by rapper Tory Lanez.

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  • Music Interviews

'Louder Than A Riot' reckons with hip-hop's past and looks to a more inclusive future

Podcast hosts Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael say despite the misogynoir that has plagued the genre, hip-hop is poised for change. "The girls and the gays are running things," Madden says.

August 21, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
3 members of the Memphis hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia. D.J. Paul (from left), Juicy J and Crunchy Black at MTV's Total Request Live on March 22, 2006, in New York City.

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  • Music

Three 6 Mafia turns $4,500 into $45 million with 'Mystic Stylez'

In 1995, the Memphis hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia took a shoestring DIY approach to recording their debut album, Mystic Stylez. Their example led to a flourishing independent hip-hop scene.

August 18, 2023
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  • Phil Harrell
Music Producer Dallas Austin

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  • Arts & Life

Dallas Austin 'laid out a roadmap' for Georgia music. Macon Film Festival honors him this weekend

Leah Fleming chats with music producer and filmmaker Dallas Austin about receiving his upcoming honor at The Macon Film Festival, what's real in the movie Drumline and how a busted keyboard got him into music.

August 18, 2023
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  • Leah Fleming and
  • Natalie Mendenhall
GPB  NPR

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  • Music

An Elmo Hope centennial celebration: Giving a jazz piano pioneer his due

One hundred years after his birth in 1923, we celebrate the legacy of Elmo Hope — one of the most influential pianists you've probably never heard of.

August 17, 2023
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  • Christopher Johnson
Jerry Moss, right, and Herb Alpert, co-founders of A&M Records, appear during their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in New York on March 13, 2006. Moss, a music industry giant who co-founded A&M Records, died Wednesday at his home in Bel Air, Calif. He was 88.

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  • Music News

Jerry Moss, co-founder of A&M Records and Rock Hall of Fame member, dies at 88

With Herb Alpert, Moss presided over one of the industry's most successful independent labels with hits by the Carpenters, the Police, Janet Jackson, Carole King, Janet Jackson and hundreds of others.

August 17, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Be Your Own Pet has reunited and recorded <em>Mommy</em>, out Aug. 25, a nervy new album that's funkier, keener and muscular than any of BYOP's previous work.

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  • Music Interviews

Be Your Own Pet's Jemina Pearl rages on

In the mid-2000s, Be Your Own Pet's frenetic punk sneered at the trappings of adulthood. The group returns after a 15-year hiatus with Mommy, an album that builds on its oppositional beginnings.

August 17, 2023
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  • Jewly Hight
Omar Montes performs a Tiny Desk concert at NPR Music in Washington, D.C.

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  • Concerts

Omar Montes: Tiny Desk Concert

The Spanish artist dances along the border of tradition and modernity in his Tiny Desk performance.

August 17, 2023
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  • Anamaria Artemisa Sayre
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