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The Grammy-nominated R&B artist made her name in the music industry as a songwriter. It took a career pivot for her to write a hit song for herself.
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Guitarist Patrick McDermott and pedal steel player Barry Walker unite again for a song as gentle as a sunkissed stream.
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The first round of tickets to Beyoncé's highly anticipated Renaissance world tour go on sale next week. Ticketmaster is under pressure to avoid a repeat of the Taylor Swift debacle in November.
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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include RAYE's long-awaited debut, 'My 21st Century Blues,' SYML's stirring 'The Day My Father Died,' the return of Shania Twain and more.
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Poet J. Ivy is a nominee for the Grammys' Best Spoken Word Poetry Album award — a new category he helped create, after petitioning the Recording Academy.
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At this year's awards on Sunday night, Beyoncé could become the artist with the most Grammys ever. She could also go down in history as the most snubbed.
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Molly Tuttle's new album is her third. But in many ways, it's a reintroduction – of her prodigious guitar talent, of her personal story, and to the Recording Academy that decides Grammy Awards.
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Don't be shocked by the 23-year-old jazz singer's breakneck rise from precocious college student to best new artist Grammy nominee. In those few years, she's been building three careers at once.
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The 2023 Grammy Awards are Sunday night.
Across 91 categories, here's the full list of nominees:
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Chicago's Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church played a pivotal role in the evolution of gospel.
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At this year's awards on Sunday night, Beyoncé could become the artist with the most Grammys ever.
She could also go down in history as the most snubbed.
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#NowPlaying: Kalia Vandever, "Temper the Wound"
Hear a meditative trombone improvisation, inspired by dreams, and powered by spiraling loops and gentle melodies.
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Already a quiet influence on the hyperpop scene, fame, relationships, stimulants and screens collide in brakence's "realer-than-real" sound.
NPR Music's interviews brakence on his latest album 'hypochondriac': n.pr/3X1pUEe
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One of those week's where you wish there was a director's cut of our conversation, which lasted a full hour. Alas! I'm on the pod this week to talk about Raye's My 21st Century Blues and Young Fathers' Heavy Heavy, two albums I will be revisiting all year
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#NowPlaying: North Americans, "Classic Water"
Guitarist Patrick McDermott and pedal steel player Barry Walker reunite for a song as gentle as a sunkissed stream.
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Check out Kalia Vandever's meditative trombone improvisations, inspired by dreams, and powered by spiraling loops and gentle melodies. npr.org/sections/now-p
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Stream our New Music Friday playlist. Updated weekly:
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To see what drops made our lightning round + other notable releases, tune into the new episode of ⚡
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10 years ago, My Bloody Valentine released 'm b v,' which has really held up, I think... more than I initially thought it would.
At the time, , and I spent the weekend writing notes to each other about bent experiences.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to pianist about her interview series Amplify, which examines how Black artists today might find themselves in a new cultural renaissance.
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The singer sustained a spinal injury four years ago that he said he is still recovering from.
He was also diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2020.
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The first round of tickets to Beyoncé's highly anticipated Renaissance world tour go on sale next week.
Ticketmaster is under pressure to avoid a repeat of the Taylor Swift debacle in November.
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“Whenever I go on stage, I do amplify Black composers, Black women, lyricists and composers and pay honor and respect to them,” says jazz singer Samara Joy ().
Watch Joy's conversation with on the newest episode of Amplify.
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.'s Tiny Desk series kicks off a celebration of Black History Month with this stunning performance from Lady Wray.
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Patrick Shiroishi () resisted his Japanese American heritage for decades. The saxophonist and composer now funnels that painful and triumphant personal history into a string of vital records.
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The "beat scientist" and composer talks about his musical upbringing and his approach to remixing live music.
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The Dessoff Choirs has a profound simpatico with Margaret Bonds’ mature compositional style, a glowing synthesis of African American and European concert music — never more stunning than on her late work 'Credo,' the centerpiece of a new album.
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As they have every year since 1986, members of the Hall will select from a group of nominees – though these days, the nominees tend to represent a wider spectrum of popular music.
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Dancing on beat was an intrinsic part of Cimafunk’s childhood in Cuba.
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