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NPR Music celebrates 15 years with Yendry, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Amber Mark, and Moonchild at 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. on November 29, 2022. (Eric Lee for NPR)

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Watch Amber Mark live at NPR Music's 15th anniversary concert

1:27pm December 06, 2022

by Bobby Carter

Mark performed songs from her transcendent debut album, Three Dimensions Deep, at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., as part of NPR Music's 15th anniversary celebration.

NPR Music celebrates 15 years with Cimafunk, Bartees Strange, Leikeli47, and Cory Henry at 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. on November 28, 2022. (Eric Lee for NPR)

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Cimafunk on his Afro-Cuban roots, funk influence and band built on connection

1:25pm December 06, 2022

by Felix Contreras

Hear a conversation between the Cuban musician and Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras from NPR Music's 15th anniversary celebration at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.

Nilüfer Yanya's PAINLESS is one of NPR Music's top 10 rock albums of 2022.

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The 10 Best Rock Albums of 2022

11:57am December 06, 2022

In 2022, the top 10 rock albums took a pilgrimage to Memphis, communed with theologians and poets, found the interconnectedness of all beings and danced through pain and pleasure.

Stax Records co-founder Jim Stewart (center) poses for a photo with friends and students of the Stax Music Academy on April 29, 2013, in Memphis, Tenn. Stewart died Monday at age 92.

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Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies at age 92

11:28am December 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

The white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player co-founded the influential record label with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful "Memphis sound."

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H.C. McEntire, 'New View'

11:02am December 06, 2022

by Joe Kendrick

McEntire evokes the austerity of autumn with warm, understated instrumentation and a poetic meditation on inviting love despite the risk of heartbreak.

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The Necks, 'Imprinting'

10:28am December 06, 2022

by Joshua Minsoo Kim

The Australian trio crafts endlessly irresistible and impossibly tight improvisations.

Kelli O'Hara as Laura Brown, Renée Fleming as Clarissa Vaughan, and Joyce DiDonato as Virginia Woolf in Kevin Puts's "The Hours."

Three superstar divas power opera 'The Hours' - coming to movie theaters everywhere.

7:38am December 06, 2022

by Jeff Lunden

Kelli O'Hara, Renée Fleming, and Joyce DiDonato star in a new opera based on Michael Cunningham's book.

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This 2021 photo combination released by the U.S. Marshals Service shows James Howard Jackson. The man who shot Lady Gaga's dogwalker and stole two of her French bulldogs in 2021 pleaded no contest to attempted murder Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, and was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

The man who shot Lady Gaga's dog walker gets 21 years in prison

6:49am December 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

The Lady Gaga connection was a coincidence, authorities have said. The motive was the value of the French bulldogs, and detectives do not believe the thieves knew the dogs belonged to the musician.

Oleh Mahlay, the artistic director of the Bandurist Choir, conducts members of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America and Ukrainian Children's Choir at New York City's Carnegie Hall on Sunday.

Ukrainians sing 'Carol of the Bells' at Carnegie Hall, 100 years after its U.S. debut

6:13am December 06, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

A Ukrainian chorus first performed Shchedryk in the U.S. in 1922. A century later, during another fight for freedom, Ukrainian singers performed the folk song at the site of its North American debut.

This image released by Peanuts Worldwide shows promotional art for the 1965 animated TV special "A Charlie Brown Christmas." The soundtrack has sold more than five million copies.

The jazzy 'Charlie Brown Christmas' soundtrack swings on after 57 years

3:40am December 06, 2022

by The Associated Press

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" became an indelible holiday tradition and so, too, has jazz musician Vince Guaraldi's composition, "Christmas Time is Here" for the animated TV special.