
Jacob Ganz
[Copyright 2024 NPR]
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The Brown Bird singer, who played folk that edged toward the dark sides of both blues and country, died Saturday after a year-long fight with leukemia.
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Twenty years after his death, Nirvana's music — and tributes to and fights over it — remains a steady presence. Here's a taste.
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Highly emotional rock that reads as low-stakes at first, Lost in the Dream is evocative and pleasant if you let it float by in the background. But it's made with hooks that sink in deep.
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In a rare audio interview, the Swedish electronic duo reveals how its latest album, Shaking The Habitual, is an extension of the philosophy that "everything is politicized."
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A pinch of melody, a dash of groove. Pop music is built on making a song sound just new enough to be intriguing. So what happens when one song sounds a little too familiar?
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Call it diversity or a lack of consensus, but no single act dominated this year's awards. Instead, the Grammys spread the love, though rock bands — including The Black Keys and fun. — fared well.
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A trick of light made the rapper, who has been dead for more than 15 years, the most talked about musician after the first weekend of this year's Coachella festival.
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Adele won every category in which she was nominated, including Record, Album and Song of the Year, and performed for the first time in months.
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The Nova Scotian stalwarts attribute their longevity to a tight code of democracy and avoiding the spotlight.
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Director Nicolas Winding Refn explains how he chose the swooning electronic pop songs that underscore the emotion in his new film, about a stuntman and getaway driver whose emotional awakening is interrupted by bursts of brutal violence.