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Drake performs in concert as part of the Summer Sixteen Tour in New York on Aug. 5, 2016.

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No, Drake has not done a Tiny Desk, though we're open to the possibility

6:19am November 03, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Rappers Drake and 21 Savage, who are releasing a joint album Friday, posted a spoof of the segment to their social media accounts, and the Internet has largely mistaken it for the real thing.

Rappers Offset (from left), Quavo and Takeoff of the group Migos appear at a Met gala in 2018. Kirshnik Khari Ball, known professionally as Takeoff, died early Tuesday morning after gunshots were fired at a party in Houston.

Houston police are searching for witnesses after rapper Takeoff's killing

5:27pm November 02, 2022

by Giulia Heyward

Kirshnik Khari Ball, known professionally as Takeoff, died early Tuesday morning after gunshots were fired at a party in Houston. "We are looking for anything to help us," a police official said.

Planet Money started a record label to release a 47-year-old song about inflation

4:54pm November 02, 2022

NPR's Planet Money recently got ahold of a 47-year-old song about inflation that has never been released. They decided to start a record label to try to get the song out into the world.

Lavender Country, led by singer and songwriter Patrick Haggerty, released what it widely considered the first openly gay country album in 1973. Haggerty died this week at age 78.

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Lavender Country's Patrick Haggerty was embraced as gay country music's radical elder

4:08pm November 02, 2022

by Jewly Hight

Lavender Country's 1973 debut is considered the first openly gay country album. After the record was reissued in 2014, fans and fellow artists came to embrace Haggerty, who died Monday, as a pioneer.

Brie Howard-Darling, Patti Quatro, Mia Huggins and June Millington at the Kansas City screening of Fanny: The Right To Rock at Screenland Armour Theatre, Oct. 4, 2022.

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How Kansas City's music and Filipino community reunited Fanny for one special concert

1:49pm November 02, 2022

by Michelle Bacon

Despite being a band rooted in California rock tradition, the local embrace of Fanny in Kansas City, Mo. speaks to how the band's ethos transcends geography.

King Princess performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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King Princess: Tiny Desk Concert

12:27pm November 02, 2022

by Hazel Cills

With her self-assuredness on full display, King Princess performs three stripped-down songs that mix love, lust and playful self-deprecation.

This song is nearly 5 decades long but its subject still hits home

11:53am November 02, 2022

by Sarah Gonzalez

The Planet Money team got a cassette tape in the mail with a 47-year-old song about a timely topic: inflation.

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The Mary Wallopers, 'Eileen Óg'

11:42am November 02, 2022

by Fi O'Reilly

The Irish folk band applies its own punk energy and sly humor to a classic ballad.

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Yo La Tengo, 'Fallout'

10:25am November 02, 2022

by Joshua Minsoo Kim

In his hushed vocal, Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan puts your hand in his, providing comfort amid increasing uncertainties.

Takeoff of hip-hop group Migos, performing onstage during Global Citizen Live on Sept. 25, 2021 in LA.

Takeoff, member of Atlanta rap group Migos, has died at 28

2:26pm November 01, 2022

by Sheldon Pearce

The rapper, part of Migos, the Atlanta group that was hugely commercially popular and both formally and culturally influential, was reportedly shot and killed in Houston on Tuesday.