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Black Eyed Peas Hit 'Where Is The Love?' Remixed In 2016 To Remind

8:22am September 11, 2016

In 2003, the pop group's song "Where Is the Love?" was in the top 8 on the Billboard 100. Now will.i.am has rewritten the song. He tells Rachel Martin it's been adapted to reflect the issues of 2016.

Tupac Shakur attends a New York club in 1994. The rapper died two years later, in September 1996.

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Tough Love: Kwame Alexander Remembers Tupac

6:34am September 11, 2016

by Kwame Alexander

The charismatic yet contradictory rapper Tupac Shakur died Sept. 13, 1996. To mark the 20th anniversary of his death, poet Kwame Alexander has this commentary.

Jack White's latest album is Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016.

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Jack White On Detroit, Beyoncé And Where Songs Come From

5:48pm September 10, 2016

by NPR Staff

White's latest album is a career retrospective, but without the big electric sound he's been known for since the late 1990s.

The Ramones in 1976, the year the band released its debut album.

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The Kids Are Losing Their Minds: The Ramones' Debut At 40

10:23am September 10, 2016

by Barry Walters

Looking back on teenage musical education, lines in the sand and the birth of punk, a.k.a. the moment in 1976 when Ramones bopped its way onto a scene that wasn't ready and into musical history.

Robert Glasper's latest album with his group, The Robert Glasper Experiement, is called ArtScience.

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Robert Glasper Talks 'ArtScience,' The Latest From His Adventurous Jazz Crew

8:29am September 10, 2016

by NPR Staff

The Robert Glasper Experiment includes Casey Benjamin on sax, Derrick Hodge on bass and Mark Colenburg on drums. Their new album was created over just a few weeks in New Orleans.

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Across the Blue Ridge #37 - Master fiddlers, and a new album from David Holt

5:33pm September 09, 2016

by Paul Brown

This week, we celebrate master fiddlers from West Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina with music of the late Clark Kessinger, Buddy Thomas and Benny Jarrell. It's a grand experience hearing

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Songs We Love: Tuff City Kids, 'Labyrinth (Feat. Annie)'

1:00pm September 09, 2016

by Piotr Orlov

The singer nicknamed "the Norwegian Kylie" meets the synth-pop, disco-house production duo from Germany for some deep bubblegum grooves.

The members of Grandaddy are back with the band's first new music in a decade.

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Grandaddy Is Back! Frontman Jason Lytle Talks About New Album, Shares Two New Songs

12:02pm September 09, 2016

by Robin Hilton

Ten years after Grandaddy's last album, the Modesto, Calif. band has released two new songs. Singer Jason Lytle reveals the emotional turmoil behind his return to the band's signature distorted pop.

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Flowers outside the nightclub fabric in London, after it was closed on Sept. 7.

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Social Fabric: Will The Closing Of London's Great Nightclub Unravel A Scene?

11:57am September 09, 2016

by Piotr Orlov

One of London's most renowned clubs, fabric, is shutting down and the global dance music community is mourning. The decision will likely have broader effects than the shuttering of a single space.

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Oliver Jones On Piano Jazz

11:56am September 09, 2016

The Canadian pianist, a winner of the prestigious Oscar Peterson award, plays "Jordio" and "Three Little Words" in a 1990 session.