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Anya Taylor-Joy plays Beth in the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit.

We Talk 'Queen's Gambit' With Chess Expert And Tiny Desk Winner Linda Diaz

12:04pm November 06, 2020

by Linda Holmes

Linda Diaz, who won this year's Tiny Desk Contest at NPR Music, is a chess expert and international chess champion. She sat down to talk with us about the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit.

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Tiana Major9 plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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Tiana Major9: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

5:00am November 06, 2020

by Abby O'Neill

The ascending R&B talent brings us into her South London home for a four-song quarantine concert.

"Laughter has always been the juice of my life," says Laraaji, who pursed stand-up comedy before becoming a professional musician.

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Play It Forward: Laraaji Loves To Laugh

4:06pm November 05, 2020

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with American multi-instrumentalist and meditation expert Laraaji about laughter meditation, his latest album Sun Piano and the artist he is grateful for: Mia Doi Todd.

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Nashville's music industry has never given homegrown hip-hop the support it deserves, so the city's artists and entrepreneurs are creating their own institutions.

Hip-Hop In Nashville Is Making Its Own Way

1:39pm November 05, 2020

by Jewly Hight

Rap from Nashville isn't new, nor is the city's tendency to overlook the creators and entrepreneurs behind that music – despite country artists borrowing liberally from the genre over the past decade.

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A.B. Eastwood's Ever-Expanding Beat

1:17pm November 05, 2020

by Jewly Hight

The autodidact producer spent time learning in Florida, before returning to Nashville with a vision for elevating the entire city.

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Daisha McBride, The Rap Girl, Can Do Anything

12:19pm November 05, 2020

by Jewly Hight

McBride has channeled her performing abilities, affably clever personality and college-level industry studies into her own version of artistic and professional equilibrium in Music City.

The BlackSon, center, photographed with several members of the BlackCity, Funky Tenn collective.

The BlackSon And BlackCity Are Generating 'Free Power'

12:19pm November 05, 2020

by Jewly Hight

After his older brother helped The BlackSon get his artistic career underway, the pair now find themselves living in a new "city."

The Songwriting Success Of Singing Rapper Tim Gent And Rapping Singer Bryant Taylorr

12:18pm November 05, 2020

by Jewly Hight

The pair have found and are maintaining a place for themselves in the professional songwriting world of Nashville.

Singer Sarah McQuaid is featured on this week's episode.

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The Thistle & Shamrock: All Hallows' Eve

11:32am November 05, 2020

On this show, artists Cathie Ryan, Garefowl and Sarah McQuaid take us on a musical journey through myth and mystery.

Stevie Nicks' new 24 Karat Gold concert film foregrounds songs the artist says never got their due.

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Stevie Nicks On TikTok, Tom Petty And Claiming What's Yours

9:38pm November 04, 2020

An audacious concert film, an unwitting viral hit and a second Rock Hall induction: That's just the past two years for Nicks, who says that at 72 she's finally comfortable doing everything she wants.

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