Route Song of the Day
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Hannah, host of "Candyland," which aired Mondays from 6-8 p.m. on WRUR-FM (Rochester) , has been named the new music director of The Route.
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Golson, who died Sept. 21, captured the sunny optimism of American in the late '50s and early '60s. He composed internal music for hit TV shows and appeared as himself in the 2004 film The Terminal.
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A nearly 200-year-old music manuscript by composer Frédéric Chopin was recently unearthed at a museum in New York.
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Wolfe strips down her colossal sound to its barest, most intimate elements, revealing the profound beauty within.
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Bryan Steffy//Getty ImagesFor 15 weeks this summer, Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" had the No. 1 song in the country, but a new song breaks its streak this week. Plus, pop fans mourn Liam Payne.
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Watch concerts from Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso, Juanes, Danny Ocean and much, much more. -
Jennifer Koh is shaking up the long-established chamber music program at the Kennedy Center with innovative programming and community engagement. An example of that is her collaboration with pianist-composer Missy Mazzoli.
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Alt.Latino has a new story in its series, Songs That Move You. Listener Claudia Cruz is reminded about Afro-Caribbean New York City in the 1980s.
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The lawsuits filed Monday accuse the hip-hop mogul of raping women, sexually assaulting men and molesting a 16-year-old boy. -
Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, was working on a memoir when she died in 2023. Now, her daughter Riley Keough, has finished and published From Here to the Great Unknown. -
NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Jesse Rudoy, director of the documentary "Dusty & Stones," about the African country music duo of the same name.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with musician Sukie Waterhouse about her new album, "Memoir of a Sparklemuffin." Waterhouse talks about finding inspiration in the sparklemuffin spider.
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One of the world’s most recognized drummers glides easily from genre to genre in this performance.
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Houston, who died Oct. 7, started out on the gospel circuit as a child, sang backup for Aretha Franklin and later guided her daughter, Whitney, to superstardom. Originally broadcast in 1998.
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The longtime Colorado resident talks about writing his latest album and running his own venue, called The Skylark Lounge.
Join The Route on Tuesday, October 29 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Rohrbach's Railroad Street Beer Hall to celebrate 20 years of Open Tunings with Scott Regan. This event is now sold out!
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