Music Interviews

Tom Jones has released a new memoir, Over the Top and Back, and a new album, Long Lost Suitcase.

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Tom Jones Unpacks A Suitcase Full Of Stories

8:36am December 13, 2015

by NPR Staff

Jones has been working double-time this year. He joins Linda Wertheimer to discuss a new memoir, tracing his life from a Welsh coal town to 20 years of superstardom — as well as a new album.

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Wild Winter, a new seasonal album by the British band Smoke Fairies, frames the holidays with chilly ambivalence.

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'Wild Winter' Inverts The Holiday Album Formula

10:28am December 12, 2015

by NPR Staff

Scott Simon speaks with Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies of the British band Smoke Fairies, whose new album frames the holidays with chilly ambivalence.

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A New Place 2 Drown is Archy Marshall's first music since the release of his debut album as King Krule, 6 Feet Beneath The Moon in 2013.

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'We Make Stuff Every Day': King Krule's Archy Marshall On His New Multi-Media Album

10:13pm December 10, 2015

by Marc Hogan

A New Place 2 Drown, out today, is 37 minutes of music, but also an art book and a short documentary made in collaboration with Marshall's brother Jack that lays bare their south London life.

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Sense Of Place Minneapolis: Peter Jesperson & Tommy Stinson

8:42pm December 10, 2015

Hear interviews with two men who played a role in the story of The Replacements.

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Dweezil Zappa On Dad's Music: We Treat It 'Like It's Classical Music'

7:15pm December 10, 2015

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with musician Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank Zappa, about his new album, Via Zammata, and his father's influence on his music.

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Sense Of Place Minneapolis: Low

4:39pm December 10, 2015

Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker have spent more than two decades playing slowly in Low.

Jeffrey Foucault's latest album is called Salt as Wolves.

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Jeffrey Foucault Finds Beauty In Small Towns And Simple Truths

2:29pm December 10, 2015

by NPR Staff

Foucault's songs explore life, loss and the distance between child and parent. He joined NPR's David Greene while on tour for his latest album Salt as Wolves.

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Composer Patrick Castillo leads the Third Sound ensemble in a Havana performance in November 2015.

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A New Music Journey From The U.S. To Havana

7:52pm December 09, 2015

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

A misunderstanding morphed into an exciting idea: Take 10 American composers to Cuba. Hear their Havana concert.

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Finland's Finest: The Seven Symphonies Of Jean Sibelius

8:18am December 08, 2015

by Tom Huizenga

For the sesquicentennial of the composer's birth, Michael Steinberg introduces his proud and sometimes mysterious music, confirming his reputation as one of the greatest symphonists.

Wayne Horvitz's latest album, Some Places are forever Afternoon, is based on poems by the late Seattle native Richard Hugo.

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At 60, Wayne Horvitz Is Protecting — And Expanding — His Musical Language

6:41pm December 06, 2015

by NPR Staff

Horvitz is one of those musicians who does almost everything — from leading a small group of improvisers to conducting a big band, and from composing for symphony orchestra to running a nightclub.

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