Music & Culture

Music & Culture

When A Reporter Gets Starstruck Over Ricky Martin

7:57am January 21, 2018

Ana Belaval's reaction to meeting singer Ricky Martin went viral not only for her reaction but what Martin means to Puerto Ricans recovering from the hurricane. She talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Drake drops two new songs to start off 2018.

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The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Drake Drops Two New Tracks During 'Scary Hours'

10:58am January 20, 2018

by Sidney Madden

The Toronto rapper supplies fans with plenty of one-liners with new tracks "God's Plan" and "Diplomatic Immunity."

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Musician MILCK On The Women's March

7:58am January 20, 2018

When singer-songwriter MILCK performed at the Women's March last year, her song, "Quiet," went viral. Some called it the anthem of a new movement. She talks about her new EP, This Is Not The End.

LA Coroner: Tom Petty's Death Was Due To An Accidental Overdose

1:49am January 20, 2018

by Richard Gonzales

Family members said they hoped that the cause of his death would spark discussion about the power and danger of opioid drugs.

"With all the compassion in my heart, I just want to say to white people sampling others' music: what you're engaging in is colonialism," Merrill Garbus says. "Name it for what it is."

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Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus Pierces Her Own Privilege

7:52pm January 19, 2018

by Ann Powers

"I couldn't not speak about whiteness in my work," Garbus says of her new record as Tune-Yards. She breaks down the themes and self-examinations behind I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life.

Natalia Lafourcade on the set of her latest video.

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Songs We Love: Natalia Lafourcade, 'Danza de Gardenias'

7:00pm January 19, 2018

by Marisa Arbona-Ruiz

A new song from Natalia Lafourcade previews Musas II, a follow up to her smash hit album of 2017, Musas.

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Eagles v. Hotel California: After Lawsuit, Band Reaches A Settlement

5:14pm January 19, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

The rock band sued a hotel in Mexico that has the same name as the "lovely place" in their iconic 1976 song. That hotel was trying to trademark the phrase "Hotel California" in the U.S.

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Dolly Parton Recognized For Two World Records In Country Music

4:19pm January 19, 2018

In a career full of accolades, Dolly Parton now adds two world records to her collection. Guinness World Records recognized her as the female artist with the most hits on Billboard's Hot Country songs charts and for the most decades with a top 20 hit on Billboards Hot Country Songs Chart.

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Across the Blue Ridge #109 - Early Country to The Present: Songster John Lilly

4:00pm January 19, 2018

by Paul Brown

This week we take a trip down memory lane to a few of the earliest mountain and classic country music recordings.

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Fred Hersch at his Leaves of Grass performance.

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Fred Hersch And The Art Of Introspection

3:43pm January 19, 2018

by Nate Chinen

We join the pianist at his loft in SoHo to talk about his upbringing in Cincinnati, late-night gigs in New York, his recovery from a coma in 2008, and his adaptation of Walt Whitman's poetry.