Music & Culture

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Country Singer Charley Pride On Receiving Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

8:25am January 29, 2017

Charley Pride, the first African-American to play the Grand Ole Opry in 1967, known for hits like "Kiss an Angel Good Morning," will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys this month.

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(Left to right) Black Sabbath, 1985: Geoff Nicholls, Tony Iommi, Dave Spitz, Eric Singer and Glenn Hughes.

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Geoff Nicholls, Longtime Keyboardist For Black Sabbath, Dies Aged 68

1:29pm January 28, 2017

by Andrew Flanagan

The Birmingham native first joined the foundational metal band in 1979 following the departure of singer Ozzy Osbourne.

Hip-Hop Duo Run The Jewels Plays Not My Job

11:43am January 28, 2017

Sure they're known as Run the Jewels ... but what do they know about running the Jews? El-P and Killer Mike will answer three questions about rabbis.

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Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

8:11am January 28, 2017

Hear new music from Valerie June, Yussef Kamaal and Gabriel Garzón-Montano in this month's mix of public-radio favorites.

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Kendra Shank On Piano Jazz

4:24pm January 27, 2017

The singer and guitarist joined host Marian McPartland in the spring of 2003.

After meeting in the artistic SoHo loft scene in the early 1970s, Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass have been frequent collaborators.

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How Laurie Anderson And Philip Glass Were About To Change The World

4:02pm January 27, 2017

by Tom Huizenga

The performance artist reflects on Philip Glass' generous spirit, his perpetually fresh ideas and the grand experiments hatched in the lofts of SoHo in the '70s.

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Courtney Barnett performs live at in Melbourne in this Sense Of Place session.

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Sense Of Place Melbourne: Courtney Barnett

3:49pm January 27, 2017

by David Dye

The beloved Australian rocker plays a hometown session at Bakehouse Studios. Watch "Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party."

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Across the Blue Ridge #57 - Alan Jabbour, master fiddler & folklorist

3:00pm January 27, 2017

by Paul Brown

Alan Jabbour, the founding director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, played fiddle, documented traditions and mentored others.

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Cloud Nothings' new album is titled Life Without Sound.

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Cloud Nothings' New Album Spares Us 'Life Without Sound'

2:44pm January 27, 2017

by Stephen Thompson

For a guy who once sang, "I need time to stop moving / I need time to stay useless," Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi sure has found a way to infuse his songs with vitality and ambition.

Migos rappers Quavo, Takeoff and Offset at the studios of Power 106 on Monday.

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Migos Rapped A Children's Book. It's Funny, But It Makes Perfect Sense

1:50pm January 27, 2017

by Daoud Tyler-Ameen

The three MCs behind the current No. 1 song in the country have a knack for finding the sensuous contours of the English language — a trait they share with the author of Llama Llama Red Pajama.