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News Articles: Music

Lainey Wilson performs "Grease" at the 58th annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Thursday, May 11, 2023, at the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas.

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  • Music News

Lainey Wilson and Chris Stapleton triumph at Academy of Country Music Awards

Lainey Wilson won album of the year for Bell Bottom Country and Chris Stapleton was named entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

May 12, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Käärijä, representing Finland, rehearses for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool.

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  • Television

Where the stage is littered with glitter: The top 10 acts of Eurovision 2023

For the first time ever, viewers in the U.S. can vote for their favorite act in the lavish international spectacle that is the Eurovision Song Contest. Our critic shares his top 10 songs.

May 11, 2023
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By:
  • Glen Weldon
In a concert that spans almost three hours, featuring robots, tanks, flying horses and maximalist filmmaking, Beyoncé<strong> </strong>remixed and embedded the entire 16-track <em>Renaissance</em> album into her full musical archive.

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  • Music Reviews

Beyoncé's 'Renaissance' tour remixes her archive for an intergalactic future

After releasing no accompanying videos, last night in Stockholm Beyoncé finally unveiled Renaissance's visual universe.

May 11, 2023
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By:
  • Bilal Qureshi
Miami rapper and social media icon Saucy Santana is redefining presentation standards for femme gay men in hip-hop, but the industry would rather keep his energy confined to TikTok.

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  • Music Features

'You're supposed to be somewhere doing hair and makeup'

Since 2019, Saucy Santana has been a regular presence on the social web, producing several streaming hits. But the very qualities that set him apart threatened to hold him back.

May 11, 2023
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By:
  • Gabby Bulgarelli and
  • Sidney Madden
A fan of the late Rita Lee pays his respects at the public wake in São Paulo, Brazil. His sign makes reference to "Ovelha Negra" (or black sheep in Portuguese), a song from 1975's <em>Fruto Proibido</em>.

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  • Music

Rita Lee, Os Mutantes singer and Brazilian rock pioneer, is dead at 75

The singer and co-founder of the psychedelic group died at home in São Paulo.

May 10, 2023
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  • Lars Gotrich

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  • Music Reviews

Joy Oladokun sings for everyone — especially herself — on 'Proof of Life'

In Oladokun's new songs, facets of who she is and what she's lived, seen and imagined provide entry points to her homey pop music.

May 10, 2023
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By:
  • Jewly Hight
Sid Sriram performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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  • Concerts

Sid Sriram: Tiny Desk Concert

The India-born, California-raised musician melds Carnatic music, R&B and soul in his Tiny Desk set.

May 10, 2023
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  • Suraya Mohamed
Devon Gilfillian

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  • Music

Devon Gilfillian's latest album is a bold declaration of Black joy

The Nashville-based musician talks about writing and recording Love You Anyway.

May 09, 2023
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  • Stephen Kallao and
  • Miguel Perez
GPB News NPR

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  • Music

Members of the band Sum 41 say they are breaking up after 27 years together

Sum 41 is behind 2000s hits such as "Fat Lip" and "In Too Deep." The band said it will finish a U.S. and international tour and release an album before officially disbanding.

May 09, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Mississippi Today reporter Anna Wolfe, center, is congratulated Monday by staff sports columnist Rick Cleveland, right, after winning the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, as her mother, Bethel Wolfe, left, observes, at a celebration in Jackson, Miss. Wolfe was honored for her reporting on a $77 million welfare scandal, the largest embezzlement of federal funds in Mississippi's history.

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  • Arts & Life

Here are the winners of the 2023 Pulitzer Prizes

The Associated Press won two awards for its Ukraine coverage, including the prestigious Public Service award. The prize for fiction went to two books: Demon Copperhead and Trust.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby and
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Grace Bumbry, in a 1963 portrait.

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  • Obituaries

Trailblazing opera star Grace Bumbry dies at age 86

The celebrated singer, who led an illustrious, jet-setting career, broke the color barrier as the first Black artist to perform at Germany's Bayreuth Festival.

May 09, 2023
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  • Brandon Gates
Record producer Zev Feldman (left) and John Fowler, a charter member of the Left Bank Jazz Society, meet outside the Charles Theater in downtown Baltimore. The building once hosted some of the best jazz musicians in the country.

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  • Music

In a Baltimore basement, a jazz detective strikes gold

New recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom are being released for the first time.

May 08, 2023
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By:
  • Alejandra Marquez Janse,
  • Juana Summers,
  • and 2 more
Voyager's Daniel Estrin rehearses "Promise" for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest.

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  • Music Interviews

Rooting for a Eurovision singer of the same name

NPR's Daniel Estrin speaks with Daniel Estrin, lead singer of the band representing Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest, and Daniel Estrin, lead guitarist of the Grammy-nominated band Hoobastank.

May 08, 2023
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  • Daniel Estrin
"The rural South is deeply beautiful and complex and contradictory," says Jones. "I really want [people] to know the rural South has something to say."

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  • Arts & Life

Durand Jones pens a love letter to being Black, queer and from the rural South

'Wait Til I Get Over,' an homage to Jones' hometown of Hillaryville, Louisiana, paints a deeply nuanced portrait of Jones and of the Southern customs that raised him.

May 08, 2023
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Beck says track and the rhythm, not vocals, need to be at the forefront if you want to move people.

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  • Music

There's a 'volume war' happening in music

Lead vocalists have gotten quieter over the decades, compared with the rest of the band, according to a new study. Beck says it's part of the "volume wars."

May 05, 2023
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
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