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Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesNow that it is becoming harder and harder to get a ticket to your favorite artist's show, watching indirectly is becoming a popular compromise. What is gained and lost in a tiered concert hierarchy? -
There have been so many extraordinary iterations of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers that some remarkable editions have been overlooked — including Strasbourg 82, a newly discovered concert album.
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NEON; Pantheon; Gandom Films Production; NEON; Vintage; Julia Gunther for NPRUnderstanding one of the world's oldest civilizations can't be achieved through a single film or book. But recent works of literature, journalism, music and film by Iranians are a powerful starting point. -
Lexie AlleyShe may be indie rock's queen of precisely rendered emotion, but on Mitski's latest album, Nothing's About to Happen to Me, warped perspectives, questionable motives and possible hauntings abound.
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On Tuesday opening statements will begin for the federal antitrust trial against Live Nation, one of the largest entertainment companies in the world. -
One of the most influential groups in hip-hop honors its legacy and the late Trugoy the Dove with a set of classics and new material. -
Gorillaz, the animated band, burst on the scene 25 years ago. NPR's Juana Summers talks to musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, the band's creators, about how it has evolved.
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The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis intersect punk and jazz on their second collaborative effort as a quartet, "Deface the Currency."
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Raina Douris, host of World Cafe at member station WXPN, about Mitski's new album, Nothing's About to Happen to Me.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Hilary Duff about her new album. It's called Luck... Or Something, and is her first release in more than 10 years.
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While previous documentaries captured the frenzy of Beatlemania, Man on the Run focuses on McCartney in the years between the band's breakup and John Lennon's death. -
The new movie is made up of footage originally shot in the early 1970s, which Luhrmann found in storage in a Kansas salt mine.
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With a little help from his Sinners co-star Miles Caton, the near-nonagenarian legend gives the Tiny Desk a history lesson in the blues. -
Hannah Maier interviews Warren Haynes ahead of his show on March 3rd at Kodak Center in Rochester
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