Music

At one border crossing into Poland, those fleeing Ukraine are met with music

4:28pm March 23, 2022

For the crowds that have streamed across the border at the Medyka border crossing into Poland, they leave behind the air raid sirens and the sounds of war and are welcomed by musician Davide Martello.

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Sylvan Esso's recording studio Betty's fosters musical community in North Carolina

1:56pm March 23, 2022

by Sarah Edwards

Betty's has become a home base for the Triangle's famously collaborative music scene.

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Cecil Taylor's piano lightning bolts are precisely targeted in this 1973 recording

1:16pm March 23, 2022

by Kevin Whitehead

Taylor's 1973 concert at New York's Town Hall has just been released for the first time as a digital album. It's a great, early example of Taylor's mature music — dense but well-designed.

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Marcus Jade performing his Tiny Desk Contest entry

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Entries We Love: Marcus Jade, 'Legs and Bones'

1:14pm March 23, 2022

by Devon Williams

This Tiny Desk Contest entrant's voice carries such a unique richness and tone, cutting and projecting through the small Brooklyn bedroom like it's a concert hall.

A new opera about Emmett Till is criticized for being created from a white perspective

9:11am March 23, 2022

by Quincy Walters

While the creators of a a new opera about Emmett Till hope it will inspire white people to confront racism, others worry it depicts Black trauma for white entertainment while masquerading as activism.

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The Grammy-winning artist Koffee, whose debut full-lenth album, Gifted, is out March 25.

Koffee, already a Grammy-winning globetrotter, is in full control for 'Gifted' debut

9:10am March 23, 2022

by Patricia Meschino

After winning a Grammy for her debut five-song short player, one of Jamaica's most talented branches out on her debut full-length.

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Entries We Love: Mother Muerte, 'Al Mas Allá'

8:00am March 23, 2022

by Lia Crockett

This Tiny Desk Contest entry is a psychedelic invocation of the "sombra en el cielo" ("shadow in the sky") that takes us to the afterlife.

Pom Pom Squad performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert.

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Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Pom Pom Squad

6:37am March 23, 2022

by Reanna Cruz

Led by Mia Berrin's bitterly romantic songwriting, the band performs songs that bring a much-needed dose of silliness to self-serious grunge and punk.

Actress Jennifer Lopez, who plays Selena Quintanilla-Perez in the movie Selena performs with her band in one of the scenes from the movie. The biopic will premiere in theaters next month in honors of the film's 25th anniversary.

'Selena' biopic will return to theaters in April to celebrate its 25th anniversary

5:52pm March 22, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

'Selena' will return to theaters in April to celebrate the film's 25th anniversary.

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Entries We Love: Caleb Bailey & The Bottom Dollars, 'White Knuckle, Black Lung'

4:20pm March 22, 2022

by Fi O'Reilly

With the melancholy wail of the fiddle and the catch of Caleb Bailey's voice, this Tiny Desk Contest entry paints a portrait of a man whose hurt can't be hidden.