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Robert Hunter, photographed at the Grateful Dead's rehearsal studio, Club Front, in Nov. 1977 in San Rafael, California.

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Robert Hunter's Words Helped Bring Life To The Grateful Dead

2:21pm September 25, 2019

by Piotr Orlov

Robert Hunter was more than another gear spinning within the perpetual motion machine of the Grateful Dead — his songwriting helped define the group's narratives and bloom its philosophies.

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The Thistle & Shamrock: ThistleRadio New

2:05pm September 25, 2019

Tune in to hear a sampling of Fiona Ritchie's award-winning 24-hour ThistleRadio stream.

Ari Lennox plays a Tiny Desk Concert (Ben de la Cruz/NPR).

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Ari Lennox: Tiny Desk Concert

1:54pm September 25, 2019

by Bobby Carter

The R&B singer performed songs from her debut full-length, Shea Butter Baby.

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Western Music Expert Doug Green Revisits The Era Of The Singing Cowboy

1:43pm September 25, 2019

by Terry Gross

Green wrote a book on singing cowboys and is featured in Ken Burns' new PBS series about country music. He says he fell in love with Western music from an early age: "It completely entranced me."

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Remembering Grateful Dead Lyricist Robert Hunter

1:43pm September 25, 2019

by Terry Gross

After Jerry Garcia formed the Grateful Dead in the mid '60s, Hunter wrote most of the lyrics for Garcia's songs, including "Truckin'" and "Uncle John's Band." Hunter spoke to Fresh Air in 1988.

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Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum collaborates with Julie Doiron for Lost Wisdom pt. 2, out Nov. 8.

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Mount Eerie Revisits 'Lost Wisdom' In Part 2 Of His Album With Julie Doiron

10:47am September 25, 2019

by Lars Gotrich

After two albums and a live record that grieved the death of his wife Geneviève Castrée, Phil Elverum not so much returns, but revisits an older Mount Eerie to reshape the elastic meaning of love.

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6 LGBTQ+ Artists You Need To Know From North Carolina

10:02am September 25, 2019

by Kym Register

WUNC Music handpicks thrilling new songs from Mykki Blanco, HC McEntire, The Muslims, Al Riggs, Shirlette Ammons and ZenSoFly.

Recipients of the 2019 MacArthur fellowships, otherwise known as the "genius" grants. (Two of this year's fellows declined photographs.)

MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Winners Attest To 'Power Of Individual Creativity'

7:01am September 25, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

As usual, the more than two dozen winners in 2019 span a range of fields, from fiction and cartoons to neuroscience and theoretical geophysics. Now they've got one important accolade in common.

Plácido Domingo on stage in July. Domingo was scheduled to perform at New York's Metropolitan Opera on Wednesday but withdrew following accusations of harassment.

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Plácido Domingo Out At Metropolitan Opera Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations

10:28pm September 24, 2019

by Tom Cole

The opera star, who has been accused by 20 women, was scheduled to perform Verdi's Macbeth starting on Wednesday night. In an email, he told Met staffers that he will never perform there again.

Gloria Gaynor originally recorded "I Will Survive" as a B-side, but swiftly after its release in October 1978 it became a worldwide hit.

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'I Will Survive' Saves Marginalized People A Spot On The Dance Floor

7:39pm September 24, 2019

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Recorded after a traumatic period in the singer's life, Gloria Gaynor's disco hit quickly found its true audience: LGBT communities, survivors of domestic violence and others pushed aside by society.

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