Music & Culture

'It's Been A Minute With Sam Sanders': The History Of Drag Queens

6:56am June 26, 2019

by Sam Sanders

June is LGBTQ pride month, and some of the loudest and proudest people in those communities are drag queens. The TV show RuPaul's Drag Race has pushed drag culture into the mainstream.

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Best Albums Of 2019 (So Far)

8:08pm June 25, 2019

We asked our panel of public radio writers one question: What is your favorite album of 2019 so far? There were so many ways to answer.

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Dave Bartholomew — New Orleans Trumpeter, Songwriter And Bandleader — Dies At 100

5:21pm June 25, 2019

by Nick Spitzer

Without Dave Bartholomew, rock 'n' roll as we know it might not exist. The trumpeter, songwriter, bandleader, producer and arranger, died Sunday at 100 in New Orleans.

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Best Albums Of 2019 (So Far)

4:50pm June 25, 2019

We asked our panel of public radio writers one question: What is your favorite album of 2019 so far? There were so many ways to answer.

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Best Albums Of 2019 (So Far)

2:52pm June 25, 2019

We asked our panel of public radio writers one question: What is your favorite album of 2019 so far? There were so many ways to answer.

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Watch James Blake Perform 'I'll Come Too' Live In Studio

2:02pm June 25, 2019

by Tyler Hale

James Blake's meditative sounds and glistening session put a spell over Los Angeles and you can get a taste with "I'll Come Too."

Frank Hurricane sings the "full spectrum of juggalo" on the extremely charming "Susquehanna River Blues."

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Viking's Choice: Appalachian Juggalo Blues, Psychedelic Black Metal, More

1:58pm June 25, 2019

by Lars Gotrich

Frank Hurricane pens an ode to lonely juggalos everywhere, Skáphe + Wormlust collapses a black hole with black metal and Lea Bertucci takes her sax to a grain elevator.

Clockwise from upper left: Versing, Actionesse, Chong The Nomad, Seattle's Space Needle, doNormaal

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Why The Seattle Music Scene Is A Glimpse At The Future

10:04am June 25, 2019

On this week's All Songs Considered we explore the city that gave us the noise of Jimi Hendrix and Nirvana and the introspection of Fleet Foxes and Death Cab For Cutie.

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Lucy Dacus' Conflicted Song About America: 'Forever Half Mast'

10:00am June 25, 2019

by Bob Boilen

The track, which sees the U.S. as "evil" but "not that bad," is being released ahed of the Fourth of July as part of the singer's ongoing series of songs for the holidays.

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Brittany Howard Announces First Solo Album, Shares 'History Repeats'

9:35am June 25, 2019

by Robin Hilton

The Alabama Shakes singer will release Jaime later this summer. The first single, "History Repeats," is a punch-drunk and funk rumination on humanity's inevitable arc toward self-defeat.