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News Articles: Music

Christian McBride

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Christian McBride finds the groove again in his latest album, 'Prime'

That's some key advice from Grammy-winning jazz bassist, composer and bandleader Christian McBride.

August 01, 2023
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By:
  • Raina Douris and
  • Brian Divver
Little Moon performs in San Francisco during the Tiny Desk Contest tour.

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  • Music

The power and heartbreak behind the song that won the Tiny Desk Contest

"I don't think it's caught up to me yet — how much my life has changed." While on the road, Little Moon's Emma Hardyman caught up with NPR to reflect on the life-changing win.

July 31, 2023
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By:
  • Elle Mannion and
  • Kara Frame
Dallas Austin

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  • News

Macon Film Festival to honor film and music producer Dallas Austin

The Macon Film Festival will give its first-ever Georgia Film Impact Award to film and music producer Dallas Austin. 

July 28, 2023
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  • Sammie Purcell
GPB News NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles, dies at 77

Called "the sweetest man in the music business" by ex-bandmate Don Felder, Meisner joined Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon in the early '70s to form one of the most popular acts in history.

July 28, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Tyler Childers will release a new album, <em>Rustin' in the Rain, </em>on Sept. 8. The video for the record's first single, "In Your Love," depicts a love story between two miners. Childers' friend and collaborator, the writer Silas House, says that he wanted to show that stories like this "are part of the story of Appalachia, too. These are human stories, not political stories."

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  • Music Features

Tyler Childers is back, and taking chances

The grassroots country star, whose fan base crosses lines of identity and politics, is releasing a song called "In Your Love," from a new album. Its video tells a queer, Appalachian love story.

July 27, 2023
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By:
  • Ann Powers
Leny Andrade performs at Birdland in New York in 2008. Andrade died on July 24, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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  • Music News

Leny Andrade, known as the first lady of Brazilian jazz, dies at 80

Andrade was a consummate nightclub artist who sang torridly of love in a husky voice. A fixture in her home country since the '60s, she became a sensation in the U.S. in the 1990s.

July 27, 2023
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By:
  • James Gavin
BabyTron, Tee Grizzley, Eminem and Danny Brown. Collage by Jackie Lay / NPR.

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  • Music Features

How Detroit and Flint became havens for rap dark horses

They don't say "Detroit Vs. Everybody" for nothing: Dismissed from the outside and splintered within, Michigan's rap cities turned scrap-or-die underdog status into a gritty aesthetic all its own.

July 27, 2023
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By:
  • William E. Ketchum III
Japanese pop star Shijiro Atae, rear center, poses with others during an announcement for a year-end TV music show in Tokyo on Nov. 24, 2010. Atae said he is gay in an emotional announcement at a fan event Wednesday, July 26, 2023, that was warmly welcomed in a country where the government does not recognize LGBTQ equality. (Kyodo News via AP)

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  • World

In Japan, a J-Pop star has come out as gay and his fans cheer

Shinjiro Atae shared the personal revelation on Wednesday evening with an auditorium filled with thousands in Tokyo.

July 27, 2023
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  • Ashley Westerman
At the Newport Folk Festival in 2022, Joni Mitchell gave her first full-length performance in 22 years. The recording, <em>At Newport</em>, is out July 28.

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  • Music Reviews

Joni Mitchell's return 'At Newport' reconfigures her legacy

The surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival, now released as an album, is another exciting evolution in Joni Mitchell's notoriously chameleonic career.

July 27, 2023
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By:
  • Annie Zaleski
Sinéad O'Connor sings in concert in 2003 at The Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. O'Connor has died at 56.

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  • Arts & Life

Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has died at 56

O'Connor, who had one of the biggest hits of the early 1990s with her version of "Nothing Compares 2 U," became as well known for her political convictions and the tumult in her life as for her songs.

July 26, 2023
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby and
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Tony Bennett performs at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City on Sept. 18, 2011.

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  • Music Interviews

Tony Bennett on his first job, Sinatra's advice and San Francisco

The legendary crooner, who died July 21, told Terry Gross in 1991 he never got tired of singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco": "I'm very grateful for that song."

July 26, 2023
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  • Terry Gross
Mitski

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  • New Music

Mitski, 'Bug Like an Angel'

Mitski writes songs that cut straight to the bone. The first single from The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We, featuring a choir, feels like a hymnal.

July 26, 2023
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By:
  • Hazel Cills
Emily Saliers, left, and Amy Ray of Indigo Girls pose for a portrait to promote the film "It's Only Life After All" at the Latinx House during the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Park City, Utah.

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  • Pop Culture

The Indigo Girls find themselves in a Barbie world

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, about their 1989 hit "Closer to Fine" being featured prominently in the new Barbie movie.

July 26, 2023
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By:
  • Noah Caldwell,
  • Sarah Handel,
  • and 1 more
American rapper, singer and songwriter Kurtis Blow, circa 1980.

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  • Music

Kurtis Blow breaks hip-hop nationally with his 1980 debut

Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Commentator Kiana Fitzgerald is looking back at the albums that changed the game.

July 25, 2023
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By:
  • Phil Harrell and
  • Kiana Fitzgerald
Rose Books

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  • Book Reviews

In 'Someone Who Isn't Me,' Geoff Rickly recounts the struggles of some other singer

Rickly's first book is a solid and promising literary debut. He's a natural, albeit a germinal one. He is best known as a singer and songwriter of the rock band Thursday.

July 25, 2023
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  • Jason Heller
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