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Auto-Tune made him famous. T-Pain shows off his natural singing voice on a new album

5:10am March 31, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to multi-platinum-winning singer, songwriter, producer and rapper T-Pain about his new covers album: On Top of the Covers.

On the record, the members of boygenius craft songs about how we care for each other, why we choose each other and how this kind of closeness can transform us.

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On 'the record,' boygenius honors how friendship shapes our very sense of self

5:01am March 31, 2023

by Marissa Lorusso

The friendship shared by Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus isn't just the backdrop for their album as boygenius: It's the subject of many of these songs, built into their very structures.

Durand Bernarr performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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Durand Bernarr: Tiny Desk Concert

5:00am March 31, 2023

by Mitra I. Arthur

Before his eclectic, high-energy performance, the singer and showman told the Tiny Desk team: "I'm not meant to be understood; I'm meant to be experienced."

Samara Joy accepts the Grammy Award for best new artist in Los Angeles on Feb. 5.

Grammy-winning jazz singer Samara Joy joins for concert and conversation

2:04pm March 30, 2023

by Terry Gross

Samara Joy comes from a family of gospel singers and has been singing all her life. In February, she became the second jazz performer in Grammy history to win the award for best new artist.

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Rapper Doechii planned for the song "Crazy" to be her industry coming-out party — but the music video, with its focus on Black femme bodies, ran afoul of an unspoken rule.

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'I'm coming to y'all with no armor'

5:00am March 30, 2023

Rapper Doechii hoped her video "Crazy" would make a statement by presenting her nude body as a vessel of power, not sex. YouTube saw things differently.

Jimmy Carter's relationship with the Allman Brothers Band helped him become president

6:06pm March 29, 2023

Former President Jimmy Carter had a relationship with the Allman Brothers Band, and that relationship played a role in helping get him elected.

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Fall Out Boy have released their first album in five years.

Fall Out Boy on returning to the basics and making the 'darkest party song'

5:00pm March 29, 2023

by Alejandra Marquez Janse

Fall Out Boy's new album, So Much (For) Stardust, is a return to some of the bands' familiar sound and style of writing. Two of the group's band members detail the journey they took to this moment.

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Wisconsin school bans Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet from class concert

6:27am March 29, 2023

by The Associated Press

Administrators at Heyer Elementary School in Waukesha stopped a class from performing a Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet promoting LGBTQ acceptance because the song "could be perceived as controversial."

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The music industry watches as the U.S. government considers banning TikTok

5:14am March 29, 2023

Some new artists owe their success to TikTok. What happens to the music if the U.S. government follows through on a threat to ban the app over national security concerns?

Indie icons Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus make up the supergroup boygenius.

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On its full-length album 'the record,' boygenius' friendship has never been stronger

6:12pm March 28, 2023

by Miles Parks

NPR's Miles Parks speaks to the members of indie supergroup boygenius about its new full-length album, the record.

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