Music & Culture

Music & Culture

South African Musician Johnny Clegg On Touring The American South

5:29pm April 09, 2016

South African musician and artist Johnny Clegg has traveled the world, but never toured the southern U.S. He's on a North American tour right now, promoting peace and racial healing.

Iggy Pop on stage at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles, the first stop on his Post Pop Depression tour.

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Ashes To Ashes: David Bowie And Iggy Pop On Stage And In Eternity

2:32pm April 09, 2016

by Hilary Hughes

For the two singers, linked as collaborators and friends, 2016 is a year echoing with finality: tributes and memorials for Bowie, a possibly valedictory tour for Pop.

Graham Nash's new solo album, his first since 2002, is called This Path Tonight.

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Graham Nash's Wild Night Out With The Everly Brothers

11:59am April 09, 2016

by NPR Staff

"The phone rings in my hotel room, and it was Phil Everly," Nash says of the strange evening in 1992 when he fulfilled a childhood dream.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda appears in Hamilton's opening night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City, in August 2015.

Lin-Manuel Miranda Talks 'Hamilton': Once A 'Ridiculous' Pitch, Now A Revolution

11:28am April 09, 2016

by NPR Staff

When the Broadway musical's creator said the life of Alexander Hamilton embodied hip-hop, people laughed. Now, he's written a book about the national phenomenon with former critic Jeremy McCarter.

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YouTube Star Revives Traditional Alaskan Culture

11:16am April 09, 2016

by Josie Holtzman

Byron Nicholai lives in a remote Alaskan village, but he's become a hit on YouTube and one of President Obama's Arctic Youth Ambassadors.

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Merle Haggard, performing at the Ryman Auditorium in 2004 in Nashville, Tenn.

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Merle Haggard, Country's Outlaw With A Heartfelt Message

10:40am April 09, 2016

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon spent some time with the country legend aboard his tour bus in 2001. Simon remembers a man who'd come a long way since his imprisonment at San Quentin, where he did time for robbery.

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Miike Snow is (left to right) Andrew Wyatt, Pontus Winnberg and Christian Karlsson. The trio's latest album is called iii.

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Miike Snow Aims To Provoke Both The Ear And The Intellect

6:35pm April 08, 2016

by NPR Staff

The production team behind "Toxic" takes a more cerebral approach with its own music. At South By Southwest, the members spoke with Audie Cornish about the big ideas they smuggle into their songs.

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Bruce Springsteen Cancels Show in North Carolina To Protest 'Bathroom Bill'

6:23pm April 08, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The Boss is standing with opponents of the law that says transgender people must only use bathrooms that correspond with their sex at birth. The musician says he is supporting "freedom fighters."

Mayer Hawthorne performs upstairs at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

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Mayer Hawthorne On World Cafe

5:06pm April 08, 2016

You can't separate this Southern California musician from his Motor City roots.

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Across The Blue Ridge - A Cavalcade of Blue Ridge music

4:40pm April 08, 2016

by Paul Brown

This week we hear a cavalcade of heartwarming songs and tunes from Appalachian and piedmont musicians of the past. Host Paul Brown also previews music featured in upcoming Across the Blue

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