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AC/DC guitarist, who performs in a school boy uniform, inspires children's book

6:33am October 14, 2022

The AC/DC AB/CD High Voltage Alphabet is written for pre-schoolers. All the letters feature band references — starting with "A is for Angus, who thinks its good luck to wear a school uniform."

Jess Williamson (left) and Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield (right) indulge rich harmonies and classic country waltzes as Plains.

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Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson tell their truth plainly

5:00am October 14, 2022

by Marissa Lorusso

Plains' I Walked With You A Ways, the collaborative debut from the Waxahatchee singer-songwriter and Williamson, combines wry wisdom with a classic country sound.

Alex Vaughn's "So Be It" is the opener on her new EP, The Hurtbook.

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Heat Check Roundup: Alex Vaughn, UnoTheActivist, Jeshi and more

3:42pm October 13, 2022

This week's Heat Check selects feature an R&B newbie enlisting a legend, a spaced-out rapper deciding to go it alone, artists from Compton, London and Nigeria refusing complacency and more.

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Winning a MacArthur genius grant is an honor, but it's also heavy, jazz cellist says

5:10am October 13, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Jazz cellist Tomeka Reid is one of this year's MacArthur Fellows. She and 24 other so-called "geniuses" will each receive $800,000 for their "exceptional creativity."

The subject of ILYSM, Wild Pink's fourth studio album, is the heft of emptiness.

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Confronted with life's fragility, Wild Pink finds sanctity in stillness

5:00am October 13, 2022

by Hannah Seidlitz

The band's new album, ILYSM — made in the midst of cancer diagnosis — shares much with the genre of slow cinema: It asks the listener to lean in, pay attention and find providence in small details.

A portrait of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith (left) in 1981 and 16 silk-screened images Andy Warhol later created using the photo as a reference. A federal district court judge found that Warhol's series is "transformative" because it conveys a different message from the original, and thus is fair use. A Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel disagreed.

The Supreme Court meets Andy Warhol, Prince and a case that could threaten creativity

6:40pm October 12, 2022

by Nina Totenberg

Images Andy Warhol created of Prince are at the heart of a case the Supreme Court will examine on Wednesday. Warhol used a black-and-white portrait taken by Lynn Goldsmith as a reference point.

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Singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde gives voice to an imaginary town on 'Lindeville'

1:49pm October 12, 2022

by Ken Tucker

McBryde mixes passionate music with novelistic details on a concept album about the inhabitants of a small rural town, named after the songwriter Dennis Linde.

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BADBADNOTGOOD live at Brooklyn Steel

1:10pm October 12, 2022

by Nikki Birch

Watch BADBADNOTGOOD incorporate splashes of psychedelia to its tight, sophisticated sound in a concert presented by Jazz Night in America.

This year's 25 MacArthur Fellows will each receive $800,000, a "no-strings-attached award to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential," according to the MacArthur Foundation website.

An ornithologist, a cellist and a human rights activist: the 2022 MacArthur Fellows

1:01pm October 12, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

This year's MacArthur Fellows include scientists, artists and historians. The so-called MacArthur "geniuses" receive unrestricted grants of $800,000 for their "exceptional creativity" and "promise."

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Tokischa: Tiny Desk Concert

12:00pm October 12, 2022

by Stefanie Fernández

The Dominican musician reworks her songs in a melange of Latin American and Caribbean genres, subverting expectations and foregrounding unfiltered expression.