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Stormzy returns, after a two-year layoff, with the seven-minute polemic "Mel Made Me Do It."

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Heat Check Round-Up: Stormzy, GloRilla and Cardi B, SiR and more

5:39pm September 29, 2022

This week's Heat Check playlist gathers artists from across the spectrum: a grime king retaking his throne, Cardi B signal boosting the summer's most exciting newcomer, risers and covert stars.

Ginger Root's Cameron Lew wants his new EP to showcase city pop as familiar yet fresh

4:49pm September 29, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Cameron Lew of the band Ginger Root about his new EP Nisemono and the vintage Japanese pop that inspires his sound.

Rapper Coolio, who helped to shape hip-hop, has died at 59

4:10pm September 29, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

Grammy-winning rapper, producer and actor Coolio has died at age 59. He was best-known for hits "Fantastic Voyage" and "Gangsta's Paradise."

Lizzo performs on rarely-played James Madison glass flute at DC concert

2:13pm September 29, 2022

by Chloe Veltman

Pop artist Lizzo stunned audiences with her performance Tuesday on a historic glass flute once owned by James Madison. The flute is currently housed in the Library of Congress.

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Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, one of five young jazz artists included in Jazz Night's inaugural class of Youngbloods.

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Youngbloods: Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins

1:52pm September 29, 2022

We close out our Youngbloods series with saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins, who takes us into the relationship between his faith and his compositions.

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'Searching in Grenoble' showcases the unique style of jazz pianist Mal Waldron

1:21pm September 29, 2022

by Kevin Whitehead

Nobody sounds like Waldron, a fact proved by a new 2-CD recording the artist made during a 1978 solo concert. Searching in Grenoble is a good introduction to the pianist's compelling sound.

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Mexico's love of Interpol is part of a larger history of the country's relationship to rock and alternative music.

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La segunda vida de Interpol

12:35pm September 29, 2022

by Vita Dadoo

Interpol may have been central to a post-9/11 New York scene, but it also might be considered one of the biggest Mexican rock acts of the last two decades.

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Rapper Coolio, who helped to shape hip-hop, has died at 59

5:10am September 29, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

Grammy-winning, rapper, producer and actor Coolio has died. He was best-known for hits "Fantastic Voyage" and "Gangsta's Paradise."

The rapper Coolio has died at 59

9:52pm September 28, 2022

by The Associated Press

The artist, one of hip-hop's biggest names of the 1990s with hits including "Gangsta's Paradise" and "Fantastic Voyage," died Wednesday at age 59, his manager said.

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'Words & Music' offers 15 demos Lou Reed recorded as a fledgling artist

4:32pm September 28, 2022

by Ken Tucker

Reed died in 2013. A new collection, recorded in 1965, captures the earliest-known versions of some of the Velvet Underground's best known songs, including "Heroin" and "Pale Blue Eyes."

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