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A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening.
The singer-songwriter and producer has had one of the more distinguished and multifaceted careers in modern music. He talks about following an unconventional path from Tony! Toni! Toné! to Sinners.
From the Welcome 2 America Deluxe Edition Blu Ray - Live at the Forum 4/28/11Available at prince.com or your local Wrecka Stow“Ain't nothing like a Purple Pa...
Nostalgia and digital burnout are driving a new rush for Apple's retired iPods.
West Coast rap during the 90's had dozens of classic songs. Noisey selects 4 of the greatest songs from hip-hop's golden age in California.
People with musical anhedonia don’t get any enjoyment from music. Shayla Love writes about scientists studying this condition to learn about how music affects listeners’ minds and moods.
No one knows why music has such a potent effect on our emotions. But thanks to some recent studies we have a few intriguing clues.
Hidden behind Georgetown storefronts, a candlelit room has spent 60 years turning dinner service into American music history—and fighting to keep the lights on
John Prine Night is an annual gathering at The French Co. Grocer in Marathon, TX to celebrate the life, music, and spirit of John Prine. Hosted by Sam Stavinoha, the owner and proprietor of The French Co. Grocer, and emceed by Austin-based artist, writer and musician M. Walker, the event occurs each October on the week
It only takes one hit song to etch your name in history.
Spotify's library was scraped in the name of music preservation, but will this make illegally training AI even easier?
On the road with the musician, his band, and his family.
David Ramsey shares a collection of nineteen stories about country music singer-songwriter Blaze Foley.
The top two are both by the same artist.
Sarah Larson on the podcast series “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man,” a deeply reported and sonically glorious biography of the legendary Nigerian musician, Afrobeat innovator, and rebel.
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The jukebox got its start earlier than you might think, but it truly became iconic when rock 'n' roll took over in the 1950s
We tracked down the family of the now-closed Texas restaurant.
Neuroscientists find people who don’t enjoy music, study their brain activity.
A massive genetic study found that stuttering is not just about nurture and may link to processing rhythm itself.
Every night, a male leopard seal slips off the ice and sings underwater for hours. It sounds structurally like a human nursery rhyme...
Many anime tracks become mainstream hits, performed at concerts and karaoke bars nationwide. Here's a guide to the world of anison.
Author Kelly Kerney tells the story behind the newly released West Virginia gospel album Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book.
Inexplicable as it may sound to readers of this site, there are movie-lovers who claim not to enjoy the work of Stanley Kubrick.
From Bon Iver to J Dilla to Beyoncé, these are the musicians who made the biggest impact across Pitchfork’s lifetime so far.
The owners of Waterloo Records hope an eye-popping revamp will reinvent the music-shopping experience in uncertain economic times.
Explore the catalog of “The First Lady of Song” with tracks chosen by Valerie June, Yaya Bey, Imani Perry and 13 more writers and musicians.
When music is medicine.
If we mention or even just allude to a catchy song, we risk having part of it playing on a loop in our head, for days on end. What's that about? And what can we do about it?
Robert Pollard adores him. Jeff Tweedy calls him a hero. But he’s just wanted to be left alone — until now.
On Youtube, jazz enthusiast Jonathan Holmes declares: 'I can guarantee this is the cleanest sounding Louis Armstrong record you'll ever hear! With the original transfer supplied by Nick Dellow, here is the mother record which was shipped by Okeh to Germany for their Odeon pressings.
First, let’s get this out of the way: the title of this post is a joke. No chord progression has any inherent emotional quality. Musical sadness is a matter of cultural convention, and even w…
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We count down the best 75 albums of 1975: Led Zeppelin, Willie Nelson, P-Funk, Patti Smith and more
After 14 years between albums, the singer and fiddler has regrouped Union Station to sing about darkness and light. The group is carrying on without a key member.
Chad Kassem is on a mission — saving listeners “from bad sound” — at the rural factory where he pores over LPs from some of music’s most important artists.
"Maybe it's only when you don’t know what you are listening for that you find what you were waiting all along to discover."
Grammy-winner Ricky Riccardi tells the story of a milestone moment in American music in this extract from his new book
I have a pretty killer audio setup that would require Porsche money to improve. I want to be transported to a jazz hall by a live album that is so…
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How do you bring the African Diaspora to the Grammys?Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento's contrasting tones make a perfect team on Milton + esperanza, a collection of covers, duets, and original songs that have earned the pair a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Today, Brittany and Esperanza get into the years-long intergenerational friendship behind the music, and the Brazilian influences on the album. Support public media and receive ad-free listening & bonus. Join NPR+ today.
How did retro sounds, dance moves, and vintage suits come to dominate before suddenly disappearing?
Jazz OTD: Two masterpieces for today's Jazz OTD. First, Joe Henderson recorded his landmark septet album "Mode For Joe" on January 27, 1966 with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, and Joe Chambers. Perfect hard bop leaning ever so slightly outward. #jazzsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiX96WxbN9o
Alan Lomax was a legendary collector of folk music, author, broadcaster, oral historian, musicologist, and filmmaker who raised the profile of folk music worldwide.
The best new and classic writing about the world of music
Nashville is where you go to make a hit that sounds like everyone else. Memphis is where you make a …
Drift off with Beach House, Cocteau Twins, Grouper, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and more
The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists have taken up the challenge of finding their own way. Fourteen musicians and writers share their favorites.
Hip-hop was once a subculture, but by now it's long since been one of the unquestionably dominant forms of popular music — not just in America, and not just among young people.
Album cover design and jazz photography on the Blue Note Records. Notes and pictures from the Birka Jazz Archive
Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues, was the first African American superstar, an artist that mingled regal dignity with sensuality. We’ll sample her recorded legacy, talk with critics and hear memories of her contemporaries from the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Halloween parties now come with a built-in soundtrack. You'll hear the prerequisite "Thriller" from Michael Jackson, "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon and probably Donovan's…
When the Supreme Court decided against Grokster in 2004, it changed the internet forever.
Songs and speech across cultures suggest music developed similar features around the world
The trio’s 2017 debut single is frequently covered by artists representing a variety of regional Mexican music genres.
1.1K votes, 1.7K comments. Music is a powerful force, to say the least. It can influence our mood, and through our moods it can lead to us be…
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From her start in the yé-yé 1960s to the depths she plumbed as a singer-songwriter, Hardy, who died Tuesday, continued to entrance new generations of listeners.
The acclaimed producer's latest album is a country blues affair inspired by a sinister dream.
Researchers are discovering how music affects the brain, helping us to make sense of its real emotional and social power.
WYEP is an independent public radio station, playing indie rock, Americana, blues, roots, & classic/modern rock. Listen to your favorite artists and discover new music.
Seven albums and 17 years into an acclaimed solo career, the musician Annie Clark said she craved “a pummeling” on her new LP: “I want something to feel dangerous.”
ChillsDB is the first database of validated audiovisual stimuli eliciting aesthetic chills (goosebumps, psychogenic shivers) in the US population.
The Texan trio’s vibes have spawned countless imitators, but their magic isn’t so easy to replicate.
Whether you have diverse tastes or a niche one, there are independent radio stations out there that could feel like home.
One of the best acoustic guitarists in the world performs a live set for World Cafe.
Deezer has deleted 26 million of what it terms as "useless" tracks, which could be an indicator of what's to come from other platforms.
Friends and family of late singer Nicolette Larson remember her brilliant voice, and the ups and downs of a life that ended far too soon.
What is it about the once virtually unknown song that inspires so many musicians to make it their own?
A syncopated rhythm may prompt our brain to find the beat
A new report by Billboard’s highlights three surprising hit song trends after an analysis of the Billboard radio charts.
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After ego clashes and substance abuse drove Chris and Rich Robinson apart, they’ve reunited for their first album of raw rock ’n’ roll together in 15 years.
Kind of Blue is the best-selling jazz album of all time. Here's what it was like inside the studio with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans on the day they laid down one of the record's iconic tracks.
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Performing pop songs live offers a thrilling reward—if your voice doesn’t betray you, that is.
Cassettes are making a comeback yet again, but this time it's Japan that's leading the way.
Black creativity found a home on Soul Train — and made TV history.
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Former streaming service subscribers on why they have ditched mod cons for MP3s, CDs and other DIY music formats
Sam Edelston can rock the duclimer. On his YouTube channel, he writes: 'Dulcimers are natural rock instruments. In fact, I even say that dulcimers are among the world's coolest musical instruments, and they deserve to be known by the general public - the way that everybody knows guitars and ukuleles.
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We’re about to find out how important TikTok is to the music industry.
With her new album, “Polaroid Lovers,” a luminary of Americana broadens her sound.
From the swag of Janelle Monaé to the devotion of Tyler Childers, last year offered a variety of ways to feel good.
The band has built its legacy by stubbornly refusing to act the way rock bands are supposed to.
How The Go-Go's emerged from the Los Angeles punk scene in the late '70s to become the first and only female band to have a number one album in Beauty and the Beat.
The late singer-songwriter rarely felt at home either in her native Texas or in the music industry, but her nostalgic ditties of girlhood captured a potent sense of place.
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Using data provided by Vivid Seats and Instagram, I learned that social media clout isn't all it's cracked up to be.
By delivering what people seem to want, has Spotify killed the joy of music discovery?
When we think of film noir, we tend to think of a mood best set by a look: shadow and light (mostly shadow), grim but visually rich weather, near-depopulated urban streets.
This month marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. A few seconds from one forgotten rap song have tied artists and eras together for decades.
From the iconic closing notes of ‘The Breakfast Club’ to the era-encapsulating mix of ‘Dazed and Confused’ to the work of the Purple One himself, these are the best mixes of cinema and sound since 1971
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How Robin Thicke, Pharrell, and T.I.’s cursed megahit predicted everything bad about the past decade in pop culture
Netflix made sonic logos — the new version of jingles — trendy. But its success is hard to replicate.
Listen closely to The Handsome Family and it's as if you have stepped into a strange, shimmering plane.
The tenor sax player came up in Chicago and toured in the '60s with Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Randy Weston. Jordan's forgotten album, Drink Plenty Water, mixes singers with a small ensemble.
Tennessee’s government has turned hard red, but a new set of outlaw songwriters is challenging Music City’s conservative ways—and ruling bro-country sound.
From family memorials to jam sessions to every show at the Grand Ole Opry, the familiar singalong helps people feel connected to those who have died — whether legendary musicians or loved ones.
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The pop singer’s trial for copyright infringement of Marvin Gaye and Ed Townsend’s “Let’s Get It On” highlights how hard it is to draw the property lines of pop.
Premiering in April 1987, MTV's Headbangers Ball featured music videos from metal and hard rock bands of the 80s and 90s--everyone from AC/DC and Mötley Crüe, to Ozzy Osbourne, Def Leppard and Twisted Sister, to Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Van Halen.
The rediscovery of demos performed by the songwriters of the legendary Memphis recording studio reveals a hidden history of soul.
The Apple co-founder and the super-producer share similar ideas regarding taste and creativity.
Explore the fundamentals of music via Ableton's interactive website. Experiment with beats, melody, harmony, basslines, and song structure in your web browser.
New recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom are being released for the first time.
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A writer of haunting, uncategorizable songs, she once seemed poised for runaway fame. But only decades after she disappeared has her music found an audience.
The musicians discuss their recent Grammy wins and why the true tradition of jazz is all about embracing freedom.
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, who died recently, wrote pieces that were elegiac, but suffused with a sense of survival: we are broken, we are wounded, we carry on.
How long does it take before you change the station or hit “skip” if you don’t like a song? Seconds — according to researchers at New York University.
The sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, of the rock band Larkin Poe, hit up a guitar store before a gig at Webster Hall.
Merchant, who’s releasing a new album, never wanted to be a pop star. Her passion is for forgotten people, problems, and sounds.
NPR's Scott Simon talks with musicians Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia about their love story and their new album, "Eclipse."
Fleetwood Mac wasn’t the show’s only inspiration.
What can elephants, birds, and flamenco players teach a neuroscientist-composer about music?
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From Leonard Cohen to Eva Cassidy, here's how the audio experts at Sonus faber ensure the best sound for their line of speakers
A legendary singer on faith, loss, and a family legacy.
Ndegeocello doesn't conform to anybody else's idea of the celestial plane. When she sings of supernovas, she sounds like a witness.
In an illuminating new book, the incredible highs and devastating lows of the influential musician are remembered
A half-century ago, Pink Floyd unleashed a classic that still lingers on the Billboard charts and in college dorms to this day. But what’s the legacy of the blockbuster album? What’s legacy, anyway?
Explore music, culture, and sounds from around the globe with TuneIn Explorer. Discover new songs and bands for free on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices.
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Music recommender systems are an integral part of our daily life. Recent research has seen a significant effort around black-box recommender based approaches such as Deep Reinforcement Learning...
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For lots of rock-poster collectors, even those who like to think they’re in the know, a common question is, “Who’s Luke Martin?”
He’s trusted to repair some of the world’s most fabled — and expensive — instruments. How does John Becker manage to unlock the sound of a Stradivarius?
We may have yet to develop the technology of time travel, but recorded music comes pretty close. Those who listen to it have experienced how a song or an album can, in some sense, transport them right back to the time they first heard it.
Jones lets the sun shine in on this jazz standard, but maintains a pensive undertone.
After 46 years, the Athens originals are taking off for good later this year. David Byrne, Boy George and more pay tribute to one of the most unusual pop bands ever
Besides “Hello It’s Me,” his C.V. includes playing in a Bowie tribute band, producing Meat Loaf as a Springsteen parody, and getting drunk with Mrs. Soupy Sales.
How a group of Guns N’ Roses fans leaked 19 CDs of outtakes from 'Chinese Democracy'
The Blues: a multi-media project anchored by seven impressionistic and interpretive films that capture the essence of the blues while exploring how this art form so deeply influenced people the world over.
Founded in 1989, Mr Bongo is an exquisitely-curated indie record (and film) label that uncovers incredible Brazilian psych, rare soul, avant-jazz, and deeply groovy Afrobeat recordings and reissues them in…
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Marshall McLuhan’s chestnut “the medium is the message” contains some of the most important theory about mass media to have emerged in the past century.
Last summer we checked in with the Internet Archive’s Great 78 Project, a volunteer effort to digitize thousands of 78rpm records—the oldest mass-produced recording medium.
Late night palette cleanser: American jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong.
There have been many influential jazz record labels throughout the previous century and into the current one, but there is no more recognizable label than Blue Note Records.
When I get to muttering in my beard about kids today, the subject oft turns to digital music and how everything sounds the same and looks the same and “what ever happened to album covers, man….” I mean I know they still exist, but they’re terrible, right?
Songs used in commercials, advertisements, events, presentations and promotional materials by Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft.
I have been really enjoying this 8 part series on the process of recording music via PBS: Music has been a constant in human history, an intermingling of voice and instrument that for all its local variation and increasing sophistication nevertheless endured in more or less the same form for centuries. Then came recording––and…Read More
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This is the Fourier Transform. You can thank it for providing the music you stream every day, squeezing down the images you see on the Internet into tiny
Who truly ranks as the 'King of Hip Hop' in this century? Breaking down review scores to find the best hip hop albums, the answer may surprise you.
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The ubiquity (and quality) of available home recording software has dramatically lessened the cost of DIY recording, but with so many options available, it can be difficult to know exactly. Continue reading
Terry Hall, lead singer of The Specials, has died. With its mix of Black and white members and Jamaica-influenced fashion style, the band became leaders of the anti-racist 2 Tone ska revival movement.
This year artists working within the orbit of the unstable category "roots music" got personal even as they explored complex cultural lineages and challenged the rules of established scenes and forms.
Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as "frisson." What is it, and why does it happen?
We ranked a list of 100 songs that reflects the sprawling, energetic messiness of 2022. Start listening.
We ranked a list of 100 songs that reflects the sprawling, energetic messiness of 2022. Start listening.
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The host of All Songs Considered listens for the moments when the poetry of a song's lyrics seem woven into its sound. This year, his playlists overflowed.
NPR's pop critic and correspondent shares her favorite albums of this year.
The Bitter Southerner’s 2022 Best Southern Records list.
In 2022, the top 10 rock albums took a pilgrimage to Memphis, communed with theologians and poets, found the interconnectedness of all beings and danced through pain and pleasure.
The most effective artists of the year weren’t afraid to root around deep inside and boldly share the messiness, the complexities and the beauty of their discoveries.
Featuring fantastic releases from Abel Selaocoe, Jake Blount, Oumou Sangaré, Silvana Estrada and more
Read how Jimmy Page recruited the other members of Led Zeppelin, and what led up to their first show in 1968 as the New Yardbirds.
On the road with the band in its forty-first year.
Susan Rogers, acclaimed record producer and expert in music cognition, talks about her new book, This Is What It Sounds Like .
A look at the history of how absurdity has been used to swerve censors in Soviet Russia and beyond. And asking why is China’s underground music scene so weird?
On the startlingly direct Spirituals, and in headline-grabbing rebukes of music's trickle-down economy, Santi White is what she's always been: a forward-thinking alternative to pop's here and now.
Rob Sheffield pays tribute to the humble pleasures and basic functionality of the compact disc, in the midst of what may be a CD revival.
The danger of enjoying jazz is the possibility of letting ourselves slide into the assumption that we understand it. To do so would make no more sense than believing that, say, an enjoyment of listening to records automatically transmits an understanding of record players.
On October 30, 2002, a cancer-stricken Warren Zevon returned to the ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ stage for one last performance. Twenty years later, Letterman and more remember the gravitas and emotion of that stunning night.
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"Narco," a dance hit by Australian musician Timmy Trumpet and the Dutch DJ duo Blasterjaxx, is the walk-on music for star relief pitcher Edwin Díaz.
He leads a manic, exhausting life—but when he’s guiding clubbers through one of his marathon sets it feels like time has been suspended.
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One important impact appears to be on vocals.
The hip-hop classic was both 1995’s biggest song and its most acclaimed, but it was neither the rapper’s first hit nor his last.
Piano-building was once one of the country’s largest industries. Today, only two companies remain in business.
Some fans were outraged when man-of-the-people Bruce Springsteen charged more than $5,000 per seat for his upcoming concert. The high prices were the result of a dynamic pricing system, in which prices are adjusted upward in response to strong demand. This controversy illustrates seven lessons that managers should keep in mind when adjusting prices, including the need for clear communications, longtime customers’ expectation that they deserve a discount, and the fact that high prices will raise expectations about quality and service.
In Iceland with the experimental pop icon, digging deep into the triumphs and tragedies that birthed her remarkable new album, Fossora
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To celebrate 15 years in business, we're taking a shot at boiling down all of popular music history into the 100 greatest albums of all time.
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Why do the black keys on the piano each have two different names? If the posts on r/musictheory are any indication, this is a persistent point of confusion, especially when music theory teachers ge…
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An old musician’s joke goes “there are three kinds of drummers in the world—those who can count and those who can’t.” But perhaps there is an even more global divide. Perhaps there are three kinds of people in the world—those who can drum and those who can’t.
Plant and Krauss discuss their first album together in 15 years, their 'happily incompatible' friendship and, of course, the chances of a Led Zeppelin reunion.
As he approaches 90, even brushes with death can’t keep him off the road — or dim a late-life creative burst.
Eight radio stations in Southern Louisiana still broadcast partially in French as they try to keep alive a dying language in the area. French has been spoken there since the mid-1700s.
A look at the recent burst of bands and how the scene operates as music, ethic and feeling.
We asked jazz musicians, writers and others to tell us what moves them. Listen to their choices.
A hundred years on from its birth, the music continues to speak to the heart — an art form that also serves as social commentary, communal history, and cathartic release.
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At the beginning of lockdown, the legendary funk bassist began posting uplifting messages to Instagram, where they found a receptive audience in drummer Adam Deitch of the band Lettuce.
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The 7-member band hails from a conservative part of the country. They sing about female genital cutting, child marriage and gender equality. And they rock.
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Bigotry and ignorance, in the age of the internet, have a way of catching up with you. And Clapton’s racism and conspiracy theories can no longer be ignored.
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Between 1985 and 1988, a teenager by the name of Sohrab Habibion was attending punk and post-punk shows around the Washington, DC area. What set him apart was the bulky video camera he’d bring to the show and let roll, documenting entire gigs in all their low-rez, lo-fi glory.
The thorny subject of the greatest guitar solo of all time has long been a fiercely contested debate, probably because every solo is different. How do you compare, say, “Comfortably Numb” with “Crazy Train,” or “Stairway to Heaven” with “Sultans of Swing”? It’s impossible.
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Jimmy Holmes is the last in a line of music legends as he seeks to keep a singular American art form thriving
After years apart, the Black Crowes perform at the Forum on Thursday, part of a tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of the group’s breakthrough debut.
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WPKN-FM—on which you can hear a Stevie Wonder song performed by an all-women jazz septet or twenty minutes of Tuvan throat singing—moves to a new location in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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How do we understand Blue in the 21st century? Can we think of Mitchell's 1971 album, long considered the apex of confessional songwriting, as a paradigm not of raw emotion, but of care and craft?
New West Records announced a new album from James McMurtry today, his first full-length studio recording since 2015’s Complicated Game. The Horses and the Hounds will be released Aug. 20 and was recorded at Jackson Browne’s Groove Masters studio in […]
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Thirty years ago, Billboard changed the way it tabulated its charts, turning the industry on its head and making room for genres once considered afterthoughts to explode in the national consciousness
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When Megan Thee Stallion took off her bright orange mask and walked onstage to accept her Grammy on March 14, she fought back tears and thanked God, her mother, and her managers for helping her become the first female rapper to win the award for best new artist in two decades.
Fifty years after their first release, the country-rock titans led by Don Henley and the late Glenn Frey still loom large in American music. Their hits still get play and their sound is a precursor to modern Nashville. But has this biggest of bands aged well? A panel of experts weigh the case.
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Licensing issues have gutted the soundtracks of many beloved series on streaming services, resulting in bewildering music cues and missing theme songs.
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Since the mid-1970s, almost every jazz musician has owned a copy of the same book. It has a peach-colored cover, a chunky, 1970s-style logo, and a black plastic binding. It’s delightfully homemade-looking—like it was printed by a bunch of teenagers at a Kinkos. And inside is the sheet music for hundreds of common jazz tunes—also
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After a turbulent decade, the Gary, Indiana, native has cemented himself as one of the greatest rappers of his—or any—generation. And on Sunday, he’s up for a Grammy award.
In an industry already powered by the repackaging of past hits, music funds like Hipgnosis want every tomorrow to sound more and more like yesterday.
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The International Record Syndicate, or I.R.S. Records, was a label founded by Miles Copeland and Jay Boberg. It was home to some of the most groundbreaking bands of the '80s.
The wildly popular short-video app has become one of the main ways Chinese people consume music, but its business model keeps artists anonymous and interchangeable.
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Generations of musicians got their start busking the streets of the Deep Ellum neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. After a decade of 'hobo-ing' around cities like New Orleans, Paris, and New York, Charley Crockett discovered it was his turn.
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A couple years ago, Stephen Malkmus walked into a shop and didn’t recognize himself. He was with one of his daughters, stopping at a gluten-free bakery (“Very Portland,” Malkmus jokes) when the Pavement song “Harness Your Hopes” came on — a song he had written and recorded more than two decades prior while leading the band. The guitar-playing that was choogling over the speakers was partially his own, but in the few moments before the vocals kicked in, his brain couldn’t place it. “At first I thought, ‘Oh, they’re playing “Tumbling Dice” by Rolling Stones,’” he remembers now, over the phone. “Then it was playing and I thought, ‘Well, this is a cool place.’ Little did I know it was just on Spotify or something.” At that point, the track was still a deep cut — a B-side recorded during the sessions for 1997’s Brighten The Corners, but not released until 1999, when it was thrown onto the CD-only Spit On A Stranger EP, a detail so remote that even Malkmus had forgotten about it until he was reminded. The song remained one that only the real heads knew until 2008, when it was included on Matador’s expanded reissue of Brighten The Corners, alongside a large amount of the extra material recorded for that album by producer/engineers Mitch Easter and Bryce Goggin. It was then that the castoff song began its new life, slowly becoming a minor fan favorite — a single-worthy non-album track that indicated just how rich the band’s discography was. A curveball to put on a mix and raise an eyebrow. The type that a bakery employee might sneak onto the work playlist as a subtle way to class the joint up. But then something bizarre happened: In the last few years, the song has rocketed up to become number one on Pavement’s Spotify page, ending up with over 28 million plays to date, seven million more than “Cut Your Hair,” a legitimate and enduring ’90s hit. Quickly, and without any obvious reason, it stopped being a rarity and started to become a standard, appearing in coffee shops and bars and gluten-free bakeries. So how did this happen, exactly? And better yet, should this have happened? Online, people have been casually wondering this on places like Reddit and Twitter, with a prevailing theory being that the song must have been featured on a prominent Spotify playlist, and then simply snowballed from there. Malkmus himself was under this impression, too: “I heard it was on a playlist or something,” he says, nonchalant. “I’m not an expert on Spotify but, you know, one of those ‘Monday Moods’ or whatever the fuck they do.” It’s a reasonable enough explanation. But looking at a similar situation of his own, Damon Krukowski wasn’t so sure. The musician and writer was fascinated with the question of how “Strange” became his former band Galaxie 500’s top Spotify track — by a significant margin — even though it was not a single, was never particularly popular in the past, and wasn’t being picked up on any prominent playlists. In June of 2018, Krukowski laid out the conundrum on his blog, and soon he received a possible explanation from a Spotify employee. Glenn McDonald, who holds the title of “data alchemist” at Spotify, had taken an interest in the case, and decided to look into it. What he found is that the sudden jump in plays for “Strange” began in January of 2017, which was “the same time Spotify switched the ‘Autoplay’ preset in every listener’s preference panel from off, to on,” as Krukowski recounted on a follow-up blog post. McDonald explained to Krukowski that the Autoplay feature actually cues up music that “resembles” what you’ve just been listening to, based on a series of sonic signifiers too complex to describe. In this case, “Strange” had been algorithmically determined to sound similar to a lot of other music, and was frequently being Autoplayed to the point that it took on a life of its own, and eventually eclipsed the band’s other tracks. It continues to do so to this day. “He called me up because of that blog post,” Krukowski explains, on the phone from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, “and said he got really interested in it as an engineering problem, ’cause he thought I had pinpointed something they hadn’t realized. Like, because you switch these things in the program, it’s the butterfly effect — who knows what’s gonna result?” More simply put, Spotify appears to have the capacity to create “hits” without even realizing it. When it comes to Galaxie 500, “there’s just no way this would have happened before this flip in the Spotify plays,” Krukowksi notes. “And now we’re becoming identified as a band with that song, because if they learn about the band through Spotify, that’s what they’re hearing. So it becomes, like, our emblem.” Krukowski was convinced, but for his part, McDonald wanted to remain clinical in his diagnosis, waiting to look at more information before making any final judgment as to what was going on with the Autoplay feature at large. If he’s still looking for fresh examples to consider, anyway, “Harness Your Hopes” would be an ideal place to start. Beyond it being a similar situation, broadly speaking — another touchstone alternative rock band from the ’80s/’90s with an inexplicable #1 song — the story also features a detail likely too specific to be coincidental: Using the Wayback Machine, it can be confirmed that “Harness Your Hopes” was nowhere to be seen on the popular tracks section of Pavement’s Spotify page until — you guessed it — 2017, when it suddenly jumped to the top. (Spotify doesn’t disclose more detailed information about artists’ streaming numbers beyond the playcount that’s publicly visible.) When requested, Spotify declined to provide an interview with McDonald, nor with anyone else who would be able to speak to the Autoplay function and how it may or may not be fueling a phenomenon like this. But they did confirm “the accuracies of Glenn’s statements” as they appear on Krukowski’s blog, and left it at that. Speaking from Switzerland, where she’s a visiting scholar at Basel University, Dr. Maria Eriksson is used to not getting much hard information to work with from Spotify. She co-authored a book on the company, 2019’s Spotify Teardown, which investigated the streaming giant and their algorithms to the degree that Spotify’s legal department eventually sent them a cease-and-desist notice. After logging on to a Zoom call, she listens to the “Harness Your Hopes”/”Strange” saga with enthusiasm, but no surprise. “What I find interesting about this story is that, from my research perspective, it really shows the power and influence that these music recommendation systems have,” she says. “But it is also extremely difficult to know how these systems work, and I think the only people who can answer that would be the engineers working at these companies, like Spotify. We’re not even sure if these people could answer why or how a recommendation system works as well, because they’re usually pretty complex things we’re dealing with here.” Krukowski, who is one of the organizers of Justice At Spotify — a new protest campaign demanding a higher artist royalty rate, among other things — isn’t all that concerned with the Autoplay situation, at least in the ways that it might be screwing with artists’ top songs. But he is concerned with the ways that incidental algorithmic designs have industry-wide power: “It’s just kind of stifling to have that amount of control, and have it in one company,” he says. “And then not only that, but to have it made by engineering decisions. This is very consistent with a lot of our culture right now, that we’re willing to surrender to Facebook and Google engineers very important decisions.” Today we are launching our campaign to demand justice at Spotify. Join us and hundreds of musicians and music workers that have already signed on to our demands! https://t.co/8BhohF88q5 pic.twitter.com/zRFGs6nAfZ — Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (@UMAW_) October 26, 2020 In this specific instance, there’s certainly a case to be made that Autoplay might actually be doing a service to the songs that it unintentionally favors — that it might be providing something valuable and unprecedented by plucking tracks from the depths and giving them the possibility of a second chance. Optimistically speaking, the algorithm could be mathematically figuring out which songs people are prone to like, regardless of how well they fared commercially in the first place. And that squares up with the case of “Harness Your Hopes,” since it was a song that was left off Brighten The Corners for no good reason, according to Malkmus. He says that after the band recorded it, they spliced out a bit of tape to shorten the waltzing part that ends the chorus (when Malkmus sings, “Minds wide open, truly”) — a change that ultimately soured him on including the track on the album. “It’s better, I like it, it’s cool that we did that, it’s old-school or whatever,” he says of the analog adjustment. “But it sounded wrong to me or something, and I was like, ‘That’s a B-side.’ It’s terrible, too — nobody told me! I guess I was such a boss, and maybe nobody thought I would listen. Usually Scott [‘Spiral Stairs’] Kannberg or something was really good at telling me, ‘That’s a good song,’ [like he did with the Slanted And Enchanted single] ‘Summer Babe.’ So it should have been on the record. I’m just saying that’s my mistake.” Now, and likely forever, “Harness Your Hopes” has moved beyond the Spotify phenomenon to become one of the definitive Pavement tracks across all platforms — Apple Music, YouTube, etc. It’s even been having a moment on TikTok lately, to the degree that Malkmus’s 15-year-old daughter recently saw it in a post and gave him the news that it was blowing up, kinda. “She was like, ‘It’s trending, but in a certain way, not in a big way,’” he laughs, dryly. It’s hard not to see the zombified success of the song as being anything but for the best, because in this case it really ...
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𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗦 ▶ 𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘, 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖. 𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖, 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥. 𝙄𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚, 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢. 𝙄𝙣 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙮. 𝙄𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚, 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙧. 𝙄𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙥 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙘𝙖𝙧. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙨 𝙨𝙮𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙨, 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙮𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙨, 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚. 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙛 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮, 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙 𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙙. 𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙚𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗼𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 - 𝗞𝗲𝗰𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗺é𝘁 (𝗛𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗿𝘆) 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵 𝟱𝟬𝟬 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗼𝗯 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 ▶ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBBaNkZpn3fEReNP2tMMzL3WaE4R798YP 𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗦 𝗪𝗘𝗕 ▶ https://www.cityrocks.eu/ 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗕𝗘 ▶https://www.youtube.com/@CITYROCKS 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 ▶ https://www.facebook.com/cityrocksproductions 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠 ▶ https://www.instagram.com/cityrocksproductions/ 𝗧𝗜𝗞 𝗧𝗢𝗞 ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@cityrocks_flashmob 🎬 RBfilm (Hungary) ________________________________________________________________________________________________ @metallica - 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻 James Alan Hetfield / Kirk L. Hammett / Lars Ulrich Enter Sandman © Universal Music Publishing Group Metallica - Enter Sandman official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ3p2VrFEvY "𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻" 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺, 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟭. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝗸 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝘁𝘁, 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝘁𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗨𝗹𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵. 𝗩𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝘁𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱'𝘀 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝘁 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗺 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝘀𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆. 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮'𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗩𝗗𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟭 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀. 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 - 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀 Say your prayers, little one Don't forget, my son To include everyone Tuck you in, warm within Keep you free from sin 'Til the sandman, he comes Sleep with one eye open Gripping your pillow tight Exit light Enter night Take my hand We're off to never-never land Somethings wrong, shut the light Heavy thoughts tonight And they aren't of Snow White Dreams of war, dreams of liars Dreams of dragon's fire And of things that will bite, yeah Sleep with one eye open Gripping your pillow tight Exit light Enter night Take my hand We're off to never-never land Now I lay me down to sleep Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep I pray the Lord my soul to keep If I die before I wake If I die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take I pray the Lord my soul to take Hush, little baby, don't say a word And never mind that noise you heard It's just the beasts under your bed In your closet, in your head Exit light Enter night Grain of sand Exit light Enter night Take my hand We're off to never-never land, yeah Uh Yeah, yeah Yo, oh We're off to never-never land Take my hand We're off to never-never land Take my hand We're off to never-never land 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 Enter Sandman, Sad but True, Holier than Thou, The Unforgiven, Wherever I May Roam, Don't Tread on Me, Through the Never, Nothing Else Matters, Of Wolf and Man, The God That Failed, My Friend of Misery, The Struggle Within, bonus track: So What James Hetfield – vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar Kirk Hammett – lead guitar Jason Newsted – bass guitar Lars Ulrich – drums, percussion 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 Kill 'Em All Ride the Lightning Master of Puppets ...And Justice for All Metallica Load Reload St. Anger Death Magnetic Hardwired... to Self-Destruct 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 Kill 'Em All For One Tour Ride The Lightning Tour Damage, Inc. Tour Damaged Justice Tour Wherever We May Roam Tour Nowhere Else To Roam Tour Shit Hits The Sheds Tour Escape From The Studio '95 Poor Touring Me Poor Re–Touring Me Garage Remains The Same Tour Summer Sanitarium Tour Summer Sanitarium Tour Madly in Anger with the World Tour Escape from the Studio '06 Sick of the Studio '07 World Magnetic Tour WorldWired Tour Metallica Tour #metallica #entersandman #heavymetal #metallicaclub #cityrocks #metallicacover #entersandmancover #themetallicablacklist #nothingelsematters #metallicatribute #metallicafamily #metallicafans #metallicareaction #metallicaislife #metallicalyrics #metallicaforever #metallicaclub #metallicalive #rockband #rockers #rockflashmob #rockstar #musicians #music #musician #heavy #rockmusic #rockmusician #rockmusik #flashmob #flashmob_youtube #музыка #rock #heavymetal
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𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗦 ▶ 𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘, 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖. 𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖, 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥. 𝙄𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚, 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢. 𝙄𝙣 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙮. 𝙄𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚, 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙧. 𝙄𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙥 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙘𝙖𝙧. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙨 𝙨𝙮𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙨, 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙮𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙡𝙨, 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚. 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙛 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮, 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙 𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙙. 𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙚𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗼𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 - 𝗞𝗲𝗰𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗺é𝘁 (𝗛𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗿𝘆) 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵 𝟱𝟬𝟬 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗼𝗯 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 ▶ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBBaNkZpn3fEReNP2tMMzL3WaE4R798YP 𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗦 𝗪𝗘𝗕 ▶ https://www.cityrocks.eu/ 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗕𝗘 ▶https://www.youtube.com/@CITYROCKS 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 ▶ https://www.facebook.com/cityrocksproductions 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠 ▶ https://www.instagram.com/cityrocksproductions/ 𝗧𝗜𝗞 𝗧𝗢𝗞 ▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@cityrocks_flashmob 🎬 RBfilm (Hungary) ________________________________________________________________________________________________ @metallica - 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻 James Alan Hetfield / Kirk L. Hammett / Lars Ulrich Enter Sandman © Universal Music Publishing Group Metallica - Enter Sandman official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ3p2VrFEvY "𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻" 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺, 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟭. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝘆 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝗸 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝘁𝘁, 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝘁𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗨𝗹𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵. 𝗩𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗺 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝘁𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱'𝘀 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝘁 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗺 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝘀𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆. 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮'𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗩𝗗𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟭 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀. 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 - 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀 Say your prayers, little one Don't forget, my son To include everyone Tuck you in, warm within Keep you free from sin 'Til the sandman, he comes Sleep with one eye open Gripping your pillow tight Exit light Enter night Take my hand We're off to never-never land Somethings wrong, shut the light Heavy thoughts tonight And they aren't of Snow White Dreams of war, dreams of liars Dreams of dragon's fire And of things that will bite, yeah Sleep with one eye open Gripping your pillow tight Exit light Enter night Take my hand We're off to never-never land Now I lay me down to sleep Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep I pray the Lord my soul to keep If I die before I wake If I die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take I pray the Lord my soul to take Hush, little baby, don't say a word And never mind that noise you heard It's just the beasts under your bed In your closet, in your head Exit light Enter night Grain of sand Exit light Enter night Take my hand We're off to never-never land, yeah Uh Yeah, yeah Yo, oh We're off to never-never land Take my hand We're off to never-never land Take my hand We're off to never-never land 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺 Enter Sandman, Sad but True, Holier than Thou, The Unforgiven, Wherever I May Roam, Don't Tread on Me, Through the Never, Nothing Else Matters, Of Wolf and Man, The God That Failed, My Friend of Misery, The Struggle Within, bonus track: So What James Hetfield – vocals, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar Kirk Hammett – lead guitar Jason Newsted – bass guitar Lars Ulrich – drums, percussion 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 Kill 'Em All Ride the Lightning Master of Puppets ...And Justice for All Metallica Load Reload St. Anger Death Magnetic Hardwired... to Self-Destruct 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 Kill 'Em All For One Tour Ride The Lightning Tour Damage, Inc. Tour Damaged Justice Tour Wherever We May Roam Tour Nowhere Else To Roam Tour Shit Hits The Sheds Tour Escape From The Studio '95 Poor Touring Me Poor Re–Touring Me Garage Remains The Same Tour Summer Sanitarium Tour Summer Sanitarium Tour Madly in Anger with the World Tour Escape from the Studio '06 Sick of the Studio '07 World Magnetic Tour WorldWired Tour Metallica Tour #metallica #entersandman #heavymetal #metallicaclub #cityrocks #metallicacover #entersandmancover #themetallicablacklist #nothingelsematters #metallicatribute #metallicafamily #metallicafans #metallicareaction #metallicaislife #metallicalyrics #metallicaforever #metallicaclub #metallicalive #rockband #rockers #rockflashmob #rockstar #musicians #music #musician #heavy #rockmusic #rockmusician #rockmusik #flashmob #flashmob_youtube #музыка #rock #heavymetal
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"Sastanàqqàm" from the album 'Elwan,' available now Order ELWAN here: http://found.ee/tinariwen_store directed by Jeremiah, assisted by Celidja Pornon / (c) 2017 Wedge / Anti- / Coop / Pias “A thousand miles from their homeland in northern Mali, across a vast expanse of desert, the music of Tinariwen has found shelter in the hearts of six young musicians from M’hamid el Ghizlane. They were only boys when the desert rockers first visited their home, back in 2006, but they saw an immediate reflection of their own dreams and aspirations in the music they heard. In the years that followed they learned the Tinariwen songbook note for note, word for word, even though they couldn’t speak a word of Tamashek, the language of the Touareg. When Tinariwen returned to M’hamid in 2016 to record a new album, those young disciples from M’hamid had achieved a remarkable mastery of the desert guitar repertoire. The torch had been passed from hand to hand and heart to heart across the great desert. The young musicians from M’hamid were invited to perform Abdallah’s ‘Sastaqanam’, standing in for their older brothers and playing with uncanny fidelity. But first the members of Tinariwen wrapped new turbans around the heads of their young acolytes, marking not only the passage from boyhood to manhood according to ancient desert custom, but also the transmission of their music across the generations, a transmission that is taking place in the hearts of youth from every corner of the great Sahara.” SASTANÀQQÀM (I QUESTION YOU) Ténéré, can you tell me of anything better Than to have your friends and your mount, And a brand new goatskin, watertight, To find your way by the light Of the four bright stars of heaven, To know how to find water in The unlikeliest of places, And enlist the momentum of the wind To help you move forward. Tell me, Ténéré, how you and I Can remain united, with no hate for each other. Ténéré, I can now admit that I have travelled far through this wide world. Ténéré, I give you my oath That as long as I’m alive, I will always come back to you.
The jazz musician’s impeccably maintained home in a modest New York City neighborhood is a testament to his — and midcentury design’s — legacy.
We asked 27 arena and stadium DJs around the country which songs defined the decade.
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A lot of great music was released this year, but we narrowed it down for you. Here's a selection of The World's favorite albums chosen by host Marco Werman and show director April Peavey.
Two reports released recently shine a light on the decade-long trends shaping our relationships to listening, from the dominance of video to the vinyl "boom" that isn't quite.
All of the songs heard in the new Miles Davis documentary film by Stanley Nelson.
A lot of folks would like to get more into jazz music. But, they don’t really know where to begin. Here are the top 10 albums for beginners.
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. *** The Knack – “My Sharona” HIT #1: August 25, 1979 STAYED AT #1: 6 weeks There really was a Sharona. Actually, […]
The young blues-guitar wonder shares an emotionally raw new song ahead of Valentine's Day.
This down-on-his-luck headbanger fabricated a persona, faked a tour and promoted himself as a hard-rock savior
Fifty years ago, a plane carrying Buddy Holly crashed in a remote Iowa cornfield. This month, hundreds of fans will gather at the ballroom where he played his final show to sing, dance, and mourn the greatest rock star ever to come out of Texas.
How the American music legends behind 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' made millions off the work of a Zulu tribesman named Solomon Linda who died a pauper.
Encore by The Specials album reviews & Metacritic score: The first full-length studio release in nearly 18 years for the reformed British ska-punk band sees the return of Terry Hall to the line-up....
Sometimes frenetic, sometimes slow and luxurious, the grooves the band creates are the perfect cushion for Jenny Ball's impassioned singing and engaging stage presence.
More than 100 million tracks available for high sound quality unlimited streaming. Qobuz is also the worldwide leader in 24-Bit Hi-Res downloads.
When people hear Anna-Maria Hefele sing, they wonder how she does it, and not just because of her impressive traditional chops.
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These are the albums that defined the decade as we lived it.
When Los Lobos gathered behind the Tiny Desk, it felt like they were cramped in the back room of a family Christmas party, calling up tunes from the Latin holiday song book.
Some of World Cafe's favorite songs of the year include music by Strand of Oaks, The Head and the Heart, Clairo, Sharon Van Etten and more.
Watch the Texas-based Thai funk band perform the lead single from their latest release, Con Todo El Mundo.
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Most guitars don’t have names. This one has a voice and a personality, and bears a striking resemblance to his owner.
In 2001, the internet’s premier file-sharing service Napster was shut down after just two years, leaving a giant vacuum in the ever-expanding peer-to-peer file-sharing space....
History makes no mention of what was one of the most popular all-female country acts ever. Yet the story of the Goree Girls—inmates who banded together in the forties at Texas’ sole penitentiary for women—is worth a listen.
A new short film captures some of Cohen’s reflections on creativity and spirituality, and on preparing for the end of life.
We explore songs with the power to transcend language and the triumphant return of the Elvis of Afghanistan.
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In a new memoir, the bassist describes how he expanded his consciousness, found his muse and landed in a storied rock band.
A modern jazz survey at ground level, from stone classics to state-of-the-art jams.
She Remembers Everything by Rosanne Cash album reviews & Metacritic score: The 15th full-length release for the singer-songwriter features contributions from such artists as T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson, John Leve...
Photo by Victor Diaz Lamich, via Wikimedia Commons Ask a few friends to draw up sufficiently long lists of their favorite albums, and chances are that more than one of them will include Elvis Costello.
There's absolutely no excuse for music fans to not know these groundbreaking albums by some of country's boldest names.
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In a life bookended by tragedy, Prince Nico Mbarga poured joy into music, including the most popular song in African history. But his own story has never been told — until now.
Before they released "Wichita Lineman," the greatest unfinished song of all time, Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb lived surprisingly parallel lives.
Minton’s Playhouse, the birthplace of bebop, still rules over 118th Street.
With the album on the wane and attention spans shorter than ever, the first 30 seconds of of a song matter more than. Not only do they need to capture. Continue reading
Learn about synthesizers via Ableton’s interactive website. Play with a synth in your browser and learn to use the various parts of a synth to make your own sounds.
More than 90 years ago, recordings in a hat warehouse in Bristol, Tenn., unleashed a quintessentially American musical form.
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After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back.
The most storied label in jazz turns 80 this year. Hear the music that shaped its legacy.
With so many video streaming services now, we need a unifier
When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.
Few embodied the spirit of New Orleans, or helped take its music to strange new places, the way the man born Mac Rebennack did.
Stay Around by J.J. Cale album reviews & Metacritic score: The 15-track release posthumous album of unreleased songs were compiled by his widow, Christine Lakeland Cale and manager Mike Kappus....
The 20-year-old guitar phenom understands the blues as a lifeline, a malleable language, a way of being in the world.
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Once derided, the successors to muzak have grown more sophisticated – and influential – than any of us realize.
For a century, jazz was a men’s club. Now a vanguard of women virtuosi—including these 16 standouts—are reshaping this most American of art forms.
Tim Duffy started Music Maker Relief Foundation to support blues musicians lost to time and poverty. He's also photographed their portraits for a new book, compilation album and museum exhibition.
Karen O and Danger Mouse covered Lou Reed's "Perfect Day", and it's streaming now. The two released their Lux Prima album in March.
I cannot write about Nigerian bandleader, saxophonist, and founder of the Afrobeat sound, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, with any degree of objectivity, whatever that might mean.
Mac Rebennack devoted himself to New Orleans culture.
This theoretical physicist’s idea has an astounding legacy.
He was falsely cast as Mozart’s murderer and music’s sorest loser. Now he’s getting a fresh hearing.
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s have been digitized and made available online for free listening.
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“Dakar was where everyone came to make music.”
Blue Note release—whether or not you were a fan of jazz or had heard of the artist or even the label. “If you went to those record stores,” says Estelle Caswell in the Vox Earworm video above, “it probably wasn’t the sound of Blue Note that immediately caught your attention.
From Black Panther to Clueless, Dazed and Confused to Purple Rain, the music that has defined modern filmmaking
A quiet Sunday night in 1953. The Dodgers had just won the pennant. J.F.K. and Jacqueline Bouvier had just married. And four titans of bebop came together in a dive bar for a rare jam session.
Veteran blues-rock powerhouses Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks return with an impassioned new album, informed by the deaths of several mentors and family members.
Duster was a small, largely forgotten band from the late ’90s. Then their legend began to grow on sites like Discogs. Now, they’re the subject of a major reissue. The internet made it all possible.
A writer never knew her family’s house on St. Thomas, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, but discovering it, and her history, became an obsession.
Plus, explosive photography from Austin, instrumentals from Billy Preston, and a podcast investigation of Anna Nicole Smith.
Thousands of French people are coming to live in Quebec and discovering that a common language doesn’t necessarily mean a common culture.
Color constancy continues to confound us.
Spotify’s acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor signal ambitious plans to disintermediate the music industry.
Seated at a table on the rear deck with Lindsay Lohan and her entourage, I spotted Alex Jimenez — a professional yacht influencer.
Seems there was a time when the dominant story of punk was the story of British punk. If you knew nothing else, you knew the name Sid Vicious, and that seemed to sum it up.
On the Americana singer-songwriter's sixth album, Carll unburdens his mind about the volatility of our time so unassumingly, he never comes close to overburdening his songs.
Investigation finds officials ignored warnings for years before one of the deadliest crashes in decades.
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There are, I guess, still many things people can do these days to tap into the legacy of CBGB, but I wouldn’t recommend going near most of them.
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This virtual guitar online simulator plays the chords of a real acoustic guitar.
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Consequence celebrates the long history of punk rock by honoring the bands that helped shape the rebellious genre.
Every artist copies; Bowie was at his best when he stole from the best, as this 19-hour playlist shows.
One-off collaborations, movie soundtracks and internet upstarts provided some of the most exciting music this year.
They made music together, took drugs, and slept together. But none of the legends of Laurel Canyon, including Joni Mitchell and David Crosby, remember it the same way.
Starring Johnny Cash, Tanya Tucker, Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, and a host of other hell-raisers
The second album from the Spanish singer is a remarkable feat, seamlessly linking flamenco’s characteristic melodrama to the heart-wrenching storytelling of modern, woman-flexing R&B.
These recent releases — including French favorite Christine and the Queens and an appropriately spooky single from Thom Yorke — will have you reconsidering your 'Best of 2018' lists.
These recent releases — including French favorite Christine and the Queens and an appropriately spooky single from Thom Yorke — will have you reconsidering your 'Best of 2018' lists.
Charles Bradley had boundless love and talent. This posthumous collection of songs is a testimony to his beauty and spirit.
The Against Me! singer bounds around outside the boundaries and margins of punk, while still sounding unfiltered, playfully profane and overstuffed with ideas.
Rather than the complexities of inheritance, Rosanne Cash's mind is on what it takes to dislodge entrenched patterns and hierarchies.
The Augusta-born soul singer's ballads, floor-burners and soaring motivational anthems took the might of Motown's peak and sharpened it to fight the impossible.
And one of his best in decades.
Purple Rain, The Bodyguard, and more.
Look Now by Elvis Costello & the Imposters album reviews & Metacritic score: The first album for Costello with the Imposters since 2008's Momofuku was co-produced Sebastian Krys and features a guest appearance from Burt Bacharach....
From the Montparnasse 2000 Label comes this groovy funky flute track
Elvis Costello is releasing his first album with The Imposters in nearly a decade, titled Look Now. The legendary musician speaks about his work and surviving a cancer scare that caused him to cancel tour dates earlier this year.
Singing the existential blues made him famous. With his great new album, 'Bottle It In,' he's just looking for a good time and a calm mind
The pioneering musician talks about sensitivity, vulnerability, and the assertiveness needed to defy gender stereotypes.
Wanderer by Cat Power album reviews & Metacritic score: The first new release from the indie rock artist in six years was self-produced, mixed by Rob Schnapf and features a guest appearance from Lana Del Rey....
Listen to a selection of timeless classics recorded at FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.
The infinitely looped clips of anime set to chill-ass beats have millions of devoted followers. Why?
YouTube channel where he 'composes longform space and scifi ambience.' Or what he otherwise calls 'ambient geek sleep aids.' Click on the video above, and you can get lulled to sleep listening to the ambient droning sound--get ready Blade Runner fans!-- heard in Rich Deckard's apartment.
September brought us a single from indie favorite Kurt Vile's upcoming album, a slinky, slow-burn success from the indomitable Neneh Cherry and a razor-sharp Ray Charles cover.
John Lydon, the 62-year-old punk legend, was in New York for a new documentary about Public Image Ltd. But first, he wanted to shop and smoke in a bar.
The legendary singer returns with a version of the Freddy Fender country weeper "Before the Next Teardrop Falls."
Version with visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEP0Gi8kZhg Tycho Sunrise DJ Set on The Dusty Rhino at Burning Man - Thursday, August 30, 2018 Track Listing: Fila Brazillia - A Zed And Two L's King Of Woolworths - Bakerloo (Main Titles) Squarepusher - Iambic 5 Poetry DJ Krust - Soul In Motion Aphex Twin - IZ-US Tycho - Adrift PFM - One & Only Art Feynman - Slow Down Weval - Thinking Of Glue70 - Til You Say Com Truise - Flightwave Melanie De Biasio - Afro Blue James Holden - 10101 Voyage - Dynamic Weval - It'll Be Just Fine Roman Flügel - 9 Years (DJ Koze Remix) Jon Hopkins - Emerald Rush < Sunrise >>> Pluko - l o v e Aleksandir - Yamaha Chrome Sparks - Moonraker Kölsch & Tiga - HAL Bicep - Glue Original Mix Chrome Sparks - All There Is Tycho - Awake Thanks to Weval for the inspiration, Rob Garza, Willits, Glue70, Kiyoka and the Dusty Rhino Crew for making it happen every year. Thank you to everyone who made this moment special, it's always a highlight of my year and I'm so grateful to be able to share it with you all.
The master craftsman returns with his first new tunes in 13 years.
Madeleine Peyroux has one of the most extraordinary voices in music today. A friend turned me onto Careless Love years ago, and from there I found Half The Perfect World, then Dreamland, and well, everything after those three albums is simply more ways to showoff her marvelous voice. Here newest, Anthem, was released today (reviews here and here)…Read More
He's loved music and performing his whole life. Now, he has finally released his debut album in his early 60s.
The veteran singer showcases her soaring powerfully expressive voice in a performance that bridges several generations of classic soul.
Designer Chanmi Lee rethinks home entertainment in an all-new, never-before-seen format known as the Wind Sound Bar. Don't be confused by the name, however... this is anything but the sound bar you're probably imagining. The design adopts a shape similar to that of a trumpet or other wind instrument - a familiar form for an
The singer is more uncompromising than ever.
Please Don't Be Dead by Fantastic Negrito album reviews & Metacritic score: The follow-up to the Oakland artist's Grammy Award-winning 2016 release was influenced in part by divisive political and social issues....
Whoever said wireless audio had to "sit" hasn't seen the Aloft speaker by designer Hyeonil Jeong. The alternative design explores an entirely new way to save valuable counter or desk space. It's A-shaped form and easy-to-install, built-in hanging bracket makes it possible to tuck it under a shelf or ledge. Being wedged underneath one of
A love song about wildflowers is the song of the summer on both sides of Kashmir's much-disputed border, after getting a push from a popular Pakistani television program funded by a soda company.
A strange and bittersweet ballad of kidnapping, stolen identity and unlikely stardom
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Smithsonian Folkways, known for its broad-based music catalog, wants to surprise you with sounds you didn't even know existed. The treasured American label turns 70 years old on May 1.
The 71-year-old raconteur returns to the old songs and inhabits the guises of death-haunted bluesmen to speak to the issues of the current era.
This month's playlist includes the soulful stylings of Leon Bridges and River Whyless' sobering meditation on the American Dream.
In this special episode, we discuss two milestone albums in Americana music: Bonnie Raitt's Nick of Time and Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.
In making a time capsule of the late 20th century, one would be remiss if they did not include at least an issue or two of Heavy Metal magazine. Yes, it specialized in unapologetically turning women in metal bras into sex objects.
By sticking by its old heroes — and familiar sounds — the awards show risks alienating tomorrow’s stars.
Launched by two of the biggest names in Texas business, Clear Channel was once the most powerful—and feared—player in radio. Now rebranded as iHeartMedia, it’s on the brink of bankruptcy.
With angry synths, religious imagery and a symbolic music video, the New Zealand singer provides the empowering song we need at this time of year.
Ella Fitzgerald was a big star on the cusp of something bigger when she began an engagement at Zardi’s Jazzland, in the heart of Hollywood, during the…
A look ahead at the 18th annual Latin Grammy Awards.
Take the rough with the smooth: how the sound of a voice is multisensory, and creates interior meaning through metaphor
The musical formula for good vibrations.
Yesterday the sad news broke that The Village Voice will discontinue its print edition.
One of the greatest living artists in popular music still isn’t properly recognized. Joni transcends gender, genre, and time. Here’s why.