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dodie performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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  • Concerts

dodie: Tiny Desk Concert

The English singer-songwriter and her band give a cathartic, playful performance at the Tiny Desk.

January 10, 2023
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By:
  • Robin Hilton
Alicia Keys.

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  • Music Interviews

You'll find Alicia Keys' new record, 'Santa Baby,' winking under the mistletoe

The famed singer, songwriter and pianist covers some holiday classics as well as two originals that she hopes will extend the shelf-life of the holiday spirit.

December 16, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Martin and
  • Phil Harrell
Ahmad Jamal, photographed during the Marciac Jazz Festival on Aug. 3, 2016 in Marciac, France.

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  • Music News

Influential jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal has released a pair of archival albums

Musician Ahmad Jamal has been a major jazz figure since the 1950s. Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse is a set of never-before-released recordings of Jamal in his prime.

November 28, 2022
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By:
  • Nate Chinen
Barbra Streisand in 1963, one year after the recording of her performance at The Bon Soir.

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  • Music Interviews

Barbra Streisand remembers the first time she 'felt the warmth of a spotlight'

Recorded in 1962, the newly remastered Live at the Bon Soir was meant to be Streisand's debut album, despite the singer's aversion to public performance.

November 18, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Martin,
  • Reena Advani,
  • and 1 more
Cover art for <em>Dirt Femme</em> by the artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tove_Lo">Tove Lo</a>.

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  • Pop Culture

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening and viewing

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Bono's memoir, the Philly Orchestra playing Dancing On My Own, and Tove Lo's Dirt Femme.

November 05, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson,
  • Chris Klimek,
  • and 2 more

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  • Music

How does the music industry work? Planet Money started a record label to find out

Almost 50 years ago, a band made an incredible song about Inflation. Then the song was lost to the dustbin of history. Now, Planet Money is on a mission to make this record a hit.

October 29, 2022
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By:
  • Erika Beras and
  • Sarah Gonzalez
Rihanna

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  • New Music

Rihanna, 'Lift Me Up'

Rihanna returns to music with the stripped down Black Panther soundtrack song "Lift Me Up," an emotional ballad that's tender at its core.

October 28, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Pointer

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  • New Music

Chappell Roan, 'Casual'

Chappell Roan peppers her irresistible pop song with explicit details — some more explicit than others — about a relationship between lovers with incompatible desires.

October 28, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson
iLe.

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  • Music Interviews

Singer and songwriter iLe's third album, 'Nacarile,' finds a world deeply in flux

The Puerto Rican artist returns with a new album, her first since protests galvanized San Juan and beyond in 2019.

October 20, 2022
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Lilly Quiroz

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  • New Music

Heat Check Roundup: Smino, Ayra Starr, Ghais Guevara and more

This week's Heat Check selects come largely from iconoclasts who have already zeroed in on their individual aesthetics: a singsong rap soulman, an alté sensation, a noise-rap radical and more.

October 06, 2022
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By:
  • Sidney Madden,
  • Sheldon Pearce,
  • and 3 more
Two members of Tennessee State University's Aristocrat of Bands — Marro Briggs, left, and Curtis Olawumi.

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  • Music Features

How to fit a top-tier HBCU marching band and the gospel tradition onto one album

The massive sound of The Aristocrat of Bands, a highly respected HBCU marching band, and the overflowing history of gospel combine on a single album (with a great title) — 'The Urban Hymnal.'

September 27, 2022
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By:
  • Jewly Hight
Pianist and composer Chad Lawson hopes his music can heal people struggling with mental health challenges.

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  • Music Interviews

Pianist Chad Lawson seeks to heal in new album

Pianist and composer Chad Lawson releases a double album recorded at Abbey Road, joined on some tracks by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, violinist Esther Yoo and cellist/composer Peter Gregson.

September 23, 2022
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton
San Francisco Opera prompter Matthew Piatt sits in the prompter's box at the War Memorial Opera House.

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  • Arts & Life

The hidden world of an opera prompter

One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps Anthony and Cleopatra from flying off the rails.

September 15, 2022
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Members of the English punk band the Sex Pistols. From left: Lead singer and songwriter John Joseph Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, drummer Paul Cook, bass guitarist John Simon Ritchie a.k.a. Sid Vicious and guitarist Steve Jones.

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  • Arts & Life

British pop music has a fraught relationship with Queen Elizabeth

Since the 1970s, the UK's punk, alternative and hip-hop artists have used music to share their feelings about the late monarch and what she represents.

September 14, 2022
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
The Veldt.

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  • New Music

The Veldt, 'Sweeter'

On a standout from the soul-shoegaze band's first full-length in 24 years, guitar effects swirl around a psychedelic R&B groove that shimmers with beautiful bluster.

September 13, 2022
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By:
  • Lars Gotrich
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