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Encore: On 'Company's Comin',' Leslie Jordan and gospel greats sing for joy

4:58pm January 26, 2022

Leslie Jordan was an Emmy-winning actor pre-pandemic. His quarantine video diaries scored him nearly 6 million Instagram followers. He's got merchandise, a book and a gospel album.

A true crime writer struggles with his responsibility to the victims in 'Devil House'

4:20pm January 26, 2022

by Lily Meyer

Novelist John Darnielle — also singer-songwriter with the Mountain Goats — has a hero who wants to honor the victims he's writing about but doesn't much like them.

Tanya Tagaq's powerful new album 'Tongues' aims for hope among hard truths

1:01pm January 26, 2022

Tagaq, a recipient of the national Polaris Music Prize, discusses the subjugation of Canada's Indigenous people and her hopes for healing through acknowledging that difficult history.

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Japanese Breakfast, 'No One Sees Me Like You Do'

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Japanese Breakfast, 'Nobody Sees Me Like You Do'

9:56am January 26, 2022

by LaTesha Harris

Michelle Zauner's stripped-down cover grounds Yoko Ono's "Nobody Sees Me Like You Do" in its mournful genesis.

Encore: 'Don't Stop Believin'' goes on and on, because we need it to

10:05pm January 25, 2022

by Roben Farzad

Cheesy, inspiring and enormously popular, Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" is a song which became an American Anthem long after it was released.

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Elton John performs during his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour on Jan. 19 in New Orleans. Despite being vaccinated and boosted, John has contracted COVID-19 and postponed two farewell concert dates in Dallas. John "is experiencing only mild symptoms," a

Elton John postpones Texas concerts after testing positive for COVID-19

9:49pm January 25, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

John said that he's fully vaccinated and boosted, experiencing only mild symptoms, and expects to be able to perform at his scheduled show this weekend in Arkansas.

Bobbe "Beegie" Adair. The prolific pianist and community builder died Jan. 23, 2022 at the age of 84.

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Bobbe 'Beegie' Long Adair, a formative center of Nashville's jazz scene, dies at 84

2:58pm January 25, 2022

by Ron Wynn

Adair was a superb soloist and tremendous accompanist, as well as the bedrock of Nashville's jazz scene after first relocating there in the early '60s.