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Nilüfer Yanya's second full-length album, PAINLESS, is out March 4.

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On 'PAINLESS,' Nilüfer Yanya doesn't play nice

8:55am March 04, 2022

by Hazel Cills

The singer-songwriter's second album is sparing and remarkably tough, weighted by an instrumental sound that matches Yanya's darker impulses and solidifies her status as a bona fide rock star.

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There's a new word game for fans of the band Weezer

6:25am March 04, 2022

Singer Rivers Cuomo announced it in an alliterative tweet. "If you like Wordle and Weezer, you'll probably like Weezle!" Like Wordle, Weezle gives players six tries to guess a five letter word.

Semyon Bychkov, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna, Austria in 2017.

As performing artists denounce or stay allied with Putin, history offers some lessons

6:07pm March 03, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

While Russian artists and institutions grapple with how they are viewed internationally, American cultural organizations make what amounts to foreign policy decisions.

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A still from "We Hold These Truths." Music for the new opera was composed by Tamar-kali, and director dream hampton put that music to film, for the LA Opera's Digital Shorts series.

New opera teaches a classical music class in the ongoing fight for civil rights

4:31pm March 03, 2022

by Tim Greiving

Tamar-kali, who composed the music for Mudbound and Shirley, has a new project: an opera that you can watch online.

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Soprano Anna Netrebko, performing in Vienna, Austria in 2019.

Anna Netrebko, a Russian star tied to Putin, is out at the Metropolitan Opera

4:05pm March 03, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The famed New York opera house said Thursday that the soprano will not appear there this season or next, after she declined to distance herself from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Florid performs his Tiny Desk Contest entry "mirror flower"

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Entries We Love: florid, 'mirror flower'

1:21pm March 03, 2022

by Elle Mannion

This Tiny Desk Contest entry is full of poetic lyrics, but the artist who performs as florid could quiet a crowded room just by singing the word "of."

Anaïs Mitchell performs live for World Cafe

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Anaïs Mitchell returns to her roots on a new self-titled album

1:06pm March 03, 2022

It's a confessional, intimate album a world away from Midtown Manhattan.

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Joel Ross, 'Prayer'

12:58pm March 03, 2022

by Nate Chinen

The opening track to the vibraphonist and composer's forthcoming album embodies a spirit of quiet humility and common purpose, with a deceptively simple motif that opens up through repetition.

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Rachel Baiman on Mountain Stage

12:46pm March 03, 2022

by Dave Lavender

Rachel Baiman shares a four-song set from her latest album, Cycles.

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Entries We Love: Mark Manning, 'History in the Making'

9:00am March 03, 2022

by Ashley Pointer

Singing from his heart in his Tiny Desk Contest entry, Mark Manning paints a picture of a relationship that's now reached its end.