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The 'School of Rock' band is getting back together

7:29am April 07, 2023

In 'School of Rock,' Jack Black plays a rocker who takes a gig as a fifth-grade substitute teacher. He and the actors who played the fifth graders, now in their 30s, are reuniting.

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Some artists are trying to get concert tickets directly to fans to avoid high fees

6:46am April 07, 2023

Indie-pop star Maggie Rogers wants to get tickets directly into the hands of fans to avoid high fees. She's taking ticket sales totally offline and will even sell tickets herself in New York Friday.

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Trina: Tiny Desk Concert

5:00am April 07, 2023

by Sidney Madden

The rap icon treated fans to an epic set featuring the best of her sprawling discography.

Bob Boilen and Bobby Carter in Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf

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Tiny Desk producers share their top picks from the Contest

5:33pm April 06, 2023

by Elle Mannion

Before we reveal this year's Tiny Desk Contest winner, discover some of the best of the nearly 6,000 entries we received.

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100 years ago today, Louis Armstrong wrapped his first recording session

2:00pm April 06, 2023

by Kevin Whitehead

The 21-year-old Armstrong, on cornet, was a protégé of New Orleans fellow cornetist and band leader King Joe Oliver. On April 5, 1923, they went into a Richmond, Ind., studio for a two-day session.

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Super Plage (feat. Virginie B & Meggie Lennon), '+1'

11:33am April 06, 2023

by Yara El-Soueidi

The Montréal house-pop artist offers an avant-goût of warmer days but also parties, festivals and flirty encounters.

Atlanta rapper Latto belongs to a lineage of women inspired by Miami icon Trina, whose sexually explicit bars have both challenged gendered double standards and shown their staying power.

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'When I changed as a woman, my music changed'

9:57am April 06, 2023

Like her idol Trina two decades earlier, Latto saw her creativity open up when she started rapping explicitly about sex. But with her frankness came harsh new standards to live up to.

Wednesday's 'Rat Saw God' is out April 7.

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Wednesday's 'Rat Saw God' is fearlessly, chaotically, grimly American

8:00am April 06, 2023

by Hazel Cills

The Asheville, N.C., band's new album blends country and shoegaze influences in a thrilling set of songs that capture youthful debauchery and local lore against a backdrop of strip malls and highways.

For Shawny Binladen and his collective the Yellow Tape Boys, sampling is a sacred act — the highest form of respect.

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Shawny Binladen and the rise of sample drill

9:54pm April 05, 2023

by Nora Lee

A 27-year-old Queens rapper took a defining hip-hop practice and reinvigorated a subgenre, in New York City and beyond.

How Nakhane wrote an 'existential sex album'

6:04pm April 05, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with South African musician Nakhane about their new album, Bastard Jargon. Percussive and made for the dancefloor, it also probes deep cultural and political questions.

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