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Kacey Musgraves performs in Las Vegas on Dec. 6, 2019.

'Wait Wait' for Jan. 15, 2022: With Not My Job guest Kacey Musgraves

11:29am January 18, 2022

Kacey Musgraves got her start in Austin, then left to conquer the world. She's about to do it all again on her Star-Crossed tour, but not before she answers our three questions about national anthems.

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Molly Nilsson, 'Pompeii'

11:01am January 18, 2022

by Otis Hart

The Berlin-based goth-pop artist plumbs the tale of that ever-entwined couple buried in ash in Pompeii as a way into the concept of perpetual love.

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Jenny Hval, 'Year of Love'

10:32am January 18, 2022

by Hazel Cills

The Norwegian pop experimentalist trains her encompassing talent for shibboleth deconstruction towards a new "normcore institution" — her own marriage.

Interdisciplinary artist-musician FKA twigs released 'CAPRISONGS,' her debut mixtape and first release with Atlantic Records, on Jan. 14, 2022.

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On 'CAPRISONGS,' FKA twigs vibrates at her highest frequency

7:01am January 17, 2022

by LaTesha Harris

The artist's community-oriented mixtape is a milestone of personal and professional transformation.

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Review: 'Caprisongs,' the latest from FKA twigs

5:03pm January 16, 2022

by LaTesha Harris

Pop singer FKA Twigs released new music on Friday, a mixtape called Caprisongs.

Ralph Emery, second from the right, appears in Nashville on Aug. 7, 2007 with, from left, Vince Gill, Country Music Association Chief Operating Officer Tammy Genovese and Mel Tillis, after it was announced that the three men will be inducted into the Coun

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The famed country music broadcaster Ralph Emery has died at age 88

10:13am January 16, 2022

by The Associated Press

Emery became known as the dean of country music broadcasters over more than a half-century in both radio and television. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.

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Grammy-nominated artist Cordae on his latest album, 'From A Bird's Eye View'

10:33am January 15, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist Cordae about his second full-length album, From A Bird's Eye View, and the benefits and drawbacks of sudden fame.

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Lynn Nottage photographed at A Broadway Celebration at the Times Square EDITION, in December 2021.

Two-time Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage turns a triple play in New York City

2:37pm January 14, 2022

by Jeff Lunden

Nottage, the only woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice, has a new play on Broadway, an opera at Lincoln Center Theater and a Michael Jackson musical opening soon.

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Critic Terry Teachout in 2014 in New York.

Cultural critic Terry Teachout is remembered as 'unafraid of being human in public'

1:27pm January 14, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

Teachout has died at the age of 65. He wrote acclaimed biographies of such arts figures as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and George Balanchine.

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Amaarae (feat. Kali Uchis, Moliy), 'SAD GIRLZ LUV MONEY (Vigro Deep Amapiano Remix)'

1:19pm January 14, 2022

by Otis Hart

This latest remix of the 2020 track might be the Trojan Horse we need to introduce amapiano, a spacious form of deep house music, to America.