Music Interviews

Emmet Cohen (left) and Houston Person (right) at Dizzy's Club.

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Pianist Emmet Cohen hosts a Harlem rent party for the modern day

1:31pm August 18, 2022

by Sarah Geledi

Pianist Emmet Cohen revives a Jazz Age tradition: the rent party, with "Emmet's Place." We bring you a swinging performance of the Emmet Cohen Trio with veteran saxophonist Houston Person.

French cellist Héloïse Luzzati, 37, launched La Boîte à Pépites to promote the forgotten works of women composers.

A new label revives forgotten female composers' music

10:39am August 17, 2022

by Olivia Hampton

The new record label La Boîte à Pépites is dedicated to raising the profile of female composers whose works have been neglected.

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Superorganism reaches into all the musical corners of the Earth on 'World Wide Pop'

2:24pm August 13, 2022

by Daniel Estrin

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with Superorganism's singer, Orono, about the band's latest album, "World Wide Pop."

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Sylvan Esso ditches its guiding principles of pop for its new album 'No Rules Sandy'

5:44pm August 12, 2022

Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, the duo of Sylvan Esso, talk about their new album No Rules Sandy and how they came up with it.

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'Fresh Air' remembers Motown songwriter Lamont Dozier

1:43pm August 12, 2022

by Terry Gross

Dozier and his songwriting partners Brian and Eddie Holland wrote the Motown hits "Stop in the Name of Love," "Baby Love" and "You Can't Hurry Love." He died Aug. 8. Originally broadcast in 2003.

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'Misadventures Of Doomscroller' hopes to pull you away from the information overload

11:13am August 12, 2022

In this session, frontman Taylor Goldsmith talks about how he was inspired to fight short attention spans with longer, proggier, jazzier songs that sound nothing like what Dawes have done before.

Lauv longs for the happiness of childhood on 'All 4 Nothing'

5:07am August 08, 2022

One of pop music's main advocates of normalizing mental health issues, Lauv released a new album on Friday; it's called All 4 Nothing.

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Pussy Riot talks 'Matriarchy Now'

5:06pm August 07, 2022

NPR's Daniel Estrin speaks to Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of Pussy Riot — a feminist protest art collective — about their debut mixtape, Matriarchy Now.

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A Palestinian pop singer faces threats to make music with a message

5:24pm August 06, 2022

Palestinian pop artist Bashar Murad is an openly gay singer who uses his music to address a number of societal issues. NPR's Daniel Estrin visited him at a recording studio in East Jerusalem.

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Meridian Brothers collaborate with an imaginary salsa band on new album

8:11am August 06, 2022

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to musician Eblis Alvarez about his new album, "Meridian Brothers and El Grupo Renacimiento." It's an imaginary collaboration with a fake 1970s Colombia salsa band.