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News Articles: Music

Shaboozey performs during the 2024 BET Awards in Los Angeles in June 2024.

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Shaboozey's slow-burning hybrid of hip-hop and country is finally the biggest song in the land

This week, Shaboozey becomes only the second Black artist ever to top Billboard's pop and country singles charts at the same time. The first, earlier this year, was his collaborator, Beyoncé.

July 12, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Recording artist Stacii Adams

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  • Music

These musicians are filming music video in Macon. Here’s how you can be in the shoot

Grammy Award-winning artist Anthony Hamilton will be part of a music video shoot in Macon, teaming up with Stacii Adams to do a video for Adams’ song “Happy Days.”

July 12, 2024
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  • Myracle Lewis
Zach Bryan's fifth album in five years, <em>The Great American Bar Scene</em>, features love songs, thorny anthems, autobiographical lore and even a mini-arc that directly invokes classic Bruce Springsteen songs.

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  • Music

Zach Bryan makes — and breaks — his own myth on 'The Great American Bar Scene'

Bruce Springsteen, 40 years on from Born in the U.S.A., shows up on Bryan’s new album to offer the wisdom and regret of a lifetime of telling truths and spinning yarns.

July 09, 2024
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  • Ann Powers
A woman cools herself with a fan during a hot day in London on June 26, 2024. June 2024 was the hottest June on record, according to Europe's Copernicus climate service.

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  • Climate

June sizzled to a 13th straight monthly heat record, but July might break string

It's not that records are being broken monthly but they are being "shattered by very substantial margins over the past 13 months," a climate scientist said.

July 08, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Bolivian women skateboarders — wearing traditional garb — demonstrate their skills on the half pipe.

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  • Global Health

Indigenous pride. Bowler hats. Meet an all-female Bolivian skateboarding crew

This year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival featured "Indigenous Voices of the Americas" and was full of surprises — like Bolivian women skateboarding in traditional garb — bowler hats and poofy skirts.

July 07, 2024
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  • Marc Silver and
  • Kahwit Tela
 The Library of Congress acquired the papers of Leslie Bricusse an Academy Award-winning songwriter, earlier this year.

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  • Arts & Life

Take a sneak peek into a legendary songwriter's creative process

The Library of Congress has acquired the papers of Leslie Bricusse, the songwriter who gave us "Pure Imagination," "What Kind of Fool Am I?," "Goldfinger" and "Talk to the Animals."

July 05, 2024
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  • Bob Mondello
Post Malone has reclaimed the throne this week.

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  • Music

Post Malone recaptures the No. 1 song spot with 'I Had Some Help'

After briefly ceding to Sabrina Carpenter, “I Had Some Help" is back on top of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is still No. 1 over on the Billboard 200 albums chart — she’s holding strong at ten weeks.

July 03, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Megan Thee Stallion onstage in June at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, a stop on her Hot Girl Summer Tour.

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  • Music Features

Unpacking hip-hop's sprawl in 2024's most eclectic release date

Megan Thee Stallion's post-traumatic reset, a left-field Lil Yachty collab, the raunchy return of cupcaKKe: June 28 delivered a truckload of major albums, and a portrait of modern rap's main tension.

July 03, 2024
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  • Sheldon Pearce
GPB News NPR

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  • Music

SWV: Tiny Desk Concert

We conclude 2024’s Black Music Month celebration at the Tiny Desk with the catalyst for the all-female lineup.

June 28, 2024
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  • Bobby Carter
Lily Fontaine from the band English Teacher performs on stage at Albert Hall in Manchester, England.

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  • Music

Public Radio's Favorite New Artists Of 2024 (So Far)

NPR Member stations reveal the new names that have made a mark.

June 28, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Sabrina Carpenter’s ascent is complete — this week, she scored her first No. 1 hit.

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  • Music

Sabrina Carpenter scores her first No. 1 single with 'Please Please Please'

The pop star caught the top spot while her other single, “Espresso,” is still holding strong at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Meanwhile: yes, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department is still No. 1 over on the Billboard 200 albums chart — we’re at week nine and counting.

June 27, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
"Beethoven" (1936). A new study suggests the German composer and pianist may have suffered from lead poisoning.

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  • Science

Beethoven was a classical and romantic composer, but his body was full of heavy metal

Virtuosic pianist and composer Beethoven suffered from several debilitating ailments. A new study suggests lead poisoning may be at least partly to blame.

June 27, 2024
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  • Ari Daniel
GPB News NPR

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  • Music Interviews

Countertenor John Holiday isn't trying to make you love him

The versatile singer, who emphasizes self-acceptance, says his mission is to be a bridge from the classical community to pop, jazz and R & B. And if you’re not a fan, that’s okay.

June 27, 2024
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  • Lara Downes
"Do I truly feel like hip-hop is dead? No, I don't," Questlove tells NPR. "However, I do believe that the landscape and the rules have changed. And some of its participants don't know it."

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  • Music

In an industry of conformity, Questlove remains a hip-hop iconoclast

In a new interview, Questlove reveals why Drake vs. Kendrick was so triggering, how he regained his passion for hip-hop and what to expect from the new Roots album.

June 25, 2024
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  • Rodney Carmichael
The regional Mexican artist's new album, <em>Éxodo</em>, pushes his sound further.

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  • Music

In Peso Pluma’s 'Éxodo,' he outgrows his regional Mexican roots

On his new album, Éxodo, regional Mexican hitmaker Peso Pluma gives listeners a sampler of his burgeoning potential as a multi-genre star.

June 24, 2024
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  • Suzy Exposito
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