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Pitchfork faces layoffs and restructuring under Condé Nast

5:28pm January 18, 2024

Condé Nast has announced the music website Pitchfork will be rolled into GQ Magazine, and has laid off staff. The site has played a unique role in music criticism and discovery for decades.

The Japanese House performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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The Japanese House: Tiny Desk Concert

10:09am January 18, 2024

by Stephen Thompson

The U.K. singer-songwriter recasts four of her electro-pop songs in fresh arrangements.

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Composer expresses the origins of the universe using string instruments

7:25am January 17, 2024

by Olivia Hampton

The Takács Quartet is on a 13-city tour to premiere Nokuthula Ngwenyama's "Flow." We look at how music can express natural phenomena.

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No Doubt, the pop-punk band featuring lead singer Gwen Stefani, is reuniting

6:52am January 17, 2024

No doubt announced in a video on social media that they'll be back. They released five albums during their first run in the late '80s and 90s that included hits like "Just a Girl" and "Don't Speak."

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It's an EGOT for Elton John

4:58pm January 16, 2024

Elton John won an Emmy Monday night, securing him a spot in the small group of people who have an EGOT — Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.

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Another honor for Elton John as he winds down his remarkable career

6:07am January 16, 2024

John's Disney+ special Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium won an Emmy for outstanding variety special. He's the 19th person to become an EGOT: winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.

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Good songs about sobriety for Dry January

5:58pm January 15, 2024

by Neda Ulaby

For Dry January, a former pop critic for The New Yorker suggests great songs about not drinking. Many are by musicians who have been sober for decades.

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Americans' tastes in music are changing, with world music gaining popularity

8:41am January 14, 2024

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Associated Press music journalist Maria Sherman about new trends in global music consumption, including increased appetites among Americans for country and world music.

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21 Savage drops first solo album in over 5 years

5:33pm January 13, 2024

by Rodney Carmichael

NPR'S Andrew Limbong talks to Rodney Carmichael about rapper 21 Savage's new album, American Dream.

Matt Hay gradually went deaf. But music helped him partially hear again

6:01pm January 12, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to author Matt Hay, who has struggled with his hearing since he was a kid, about his new book Soundtrack of Silence.

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