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News Articles: Music

Alex Warren performs onstage at the 2025 American Music Awards.

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  • Music

Alex Warren finally tops the Billboard Hot 100 with 'Ordinary'

The biggest news this week belongs to singer-songwriter Alex Warren, whose blockbuster track "Ordinary" ascends to No. 1 on the Hot 100 singles chart for the first time.

June 04, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Actor Joe Keery "studies" Pavement singer Stephen Malkmus in Alex Ross Perry's film <em>Pavements</em>.

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  • Music Features

Darlings on the split screen: 'Pavements' explodes the music movie

Movies about musicians love to hit the same melodramatic beats about fame and genius. Important but not quite famous, the '90s indie band Pavement is the exception that unbalances the formula.

June 04, 2025
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  • Sasha Geffen
Jasmine.4.t

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  • Music

As soon as Jasmine.4.t came out, the music started pouring out of her

The British singer-songwriter's debut album, You Are The Morning, explores the joys and hardships of being a trans woman.

June 03, 2025
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By:
  • Raina Douris and
  • Miguel Perez
Jim Kerr (left) and Charlie Burchill cofounded Simple Minds with friends in 1977 in Glasgow, Scotland. The band performs at Atlanta's Synovus Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park on June 7, 2025.

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  • Music Interviews

Simple Minds return to Atlanta, kicking off busy summer concert season

“Don't You Forget About Me” put Scottish rock group Simple Minds at No.1 on the Billboard charts in 1985. The group returns to Georgia on June 7 for its biggest show here ever.

June 03, 2025
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Los Tigres del Norte play to theirfans fans inside the midtown venue of New York City's Madison Square Garden on Saturday, May 24.

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  • Music

Los Tigres del Norte share the pride of selling out Madison Square Garden with its fans

Los Tigres del Norte has played almost every single place in the country — from armories to rodeos, in big cities and small towns. But they've never played Madison Square Garden.

June 02, 2025
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  • Anamaria Artemisa Sayre

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  • Music

4 songs we're claiming for Pride Month

World Cafe reconsiders the musical canon of Pride classics.

June 02, 2025
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  • Miguel Perez
Simone Dinnerstein has performed on some of the world's most prestigious stages as a concert pianist for decades, but for much of the time, she was crippled by anxiety that caused memory lapses.

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  • Music Interviews

How the iPad cured a top pianist's stage fright

Anxiety and panic attacks crippled pianist Simone Dinnerstein on stage, despite a stellar career. She shares how one common device helped her overcome the fear.

June 02, 2025
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  • Leila Fadel and
  • Olivia Hampton
Jon Batiste speaks at the Savannah College of Art and Design's spring 2025 commencement ceremony at the Savannah Convention Center on May 30.

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  • Education

Jon Batiste delivers commencement address to Savannah College of Art and Design graduating class

"You are the culmination of your entire lineage," the musician told graduates.

May 30, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
Taylor Swift in February 2025, at the 67th Grammy Awards.

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  • Music News

Taylor Swift buys back the rights to her first 6 albums

The pop star's early catalog was acquired in 2019 and sold again in 2020, igniting a years-long saga in which Swift set out to re-record new versions of the albums to compete with the originals.

May 30, 2025
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  • Hazel Cills
Anthony "Fyrefli" Gasaway Jr (back row, third from left) and Joy "Kuma" Gasaway (seated, holding boombox) gather with FyreNation Crew members and cypher participants at Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward Park on April 27, 2025.

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  • Arts & Life

Is hip-hop dancing for everyone? Atlanta's FyreNation Crew is on a mission to prove it

A group of Atlanta dancers is challenging stereotypes about hip-hop music and creating community events for families across the metro area. 

May 30, 2025
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Jazz drummer Al Foster, photographed in Paris in 1980.

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  • Obituaries

Al Foster, drummer for Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, has died

The superbly alert and flexible drummer formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years. He was 82.

May 29, 2025
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  • Nate Chinen
Morgan Wallen's fourth album, <em>I'm the Problem</em>, continues his run of commercial success following a string of controversies.

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  • Music

Morgan Wallen is the elephant in the room

In 2021, Wallen was caught on video uttering a racial slur. Since then he's become the most commercially successful musician in country and popular music. How? By remaining committed to ambivalence.

May 29, 2025
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  • Ann Powers
Sterling Elliott

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  • Music Interviews

High notes and fast cars: Cellist Sterling Elliott at 25

In February, 25-year-old cellist Sterling Elliott soloed for the first time with the Atlanta Symphony — a performance airing this week on The ASO on GPB. While he was in town, Elliott spoke with GPB's Sarah Zaslaw.

May 28, 2025
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  • Sarah Zaslaw
Morgan Wallen's <em>I'm the Problem</em> had the biggest week of any album this year.

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  • Music

Morgan Wallen storms the charts with 'I'm the Problem' — and 36 of its songs

This week, the album at No. 1 on the charts is one everyone saw coming: With the biggest streaming numbers of 2025 and strong sales to boot, Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem is the chart-topper it had always seemed destined to become.

May 28, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Capricorn Clark, a former employee of Sean Combs, leaves the Manhattan courthouse where she testified that Combs repeatedly threatened her and kidnapped her in during a series of events in 2011 that also involved Kid Cudi and Cassie Ventura, both of whom have also testified.

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  • Music

Former Sean Combs employee Capricorn Clark says he kidnapped her

On Tuesday, Clark, who worked for Combs for more than a decade, accused him of kidnapping her during a chaotic 2011 episode involving his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, and the rapper Kid Cudi.

May 28, 2025
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
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