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Seller has been a key behind-the-scenes figure for some of Broadway's biggest hits including, Hamilton and Rent, but he got his start on a much smaller scale. He looks back in a new memoir.
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On Winged Victory, songwriter Willi Carlisle weaves between the absurd and the sentimental. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Carlisle about the 11 tracks of originals and covers.
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The pop star's fourth album, her first since 2021's polarizing Solar Power, finds the 28-year-old shedding the stoic self-possession that defined her early career.
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One of the most in-demand session players of the 1960s, Kaye was listed alongside the late record producer Thom Bell and the late pianist Nicky Hopkins as inductees in the Musical Excellence category.
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Stanley Clarke and his band 4EVER perform a locked-in set of classics from the bassist's catalog while also giving them new life.
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It's a great day when your favorite artist releases a new record. But what if they released seven new records at once, full of music you didn't even know existed? That's what Bruce Springsteen is doing on his forthcoming box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums.
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A new study shows that music therapy is as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy at helping cancer patients and survivors heal emotionally.
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For her new album, musician Anne Harris commissioned a violin from luthier Amanda Ewing, the first such professional collaboration between two Black women to be recorded.
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People are drinking less these days, but drinking songs never go out of style. The Lomax Archive is dropping a new album of traditional songs this week.
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Southern Oregon's own Adam Gabriel & The Cavaliers stopped by to play some new tunes and chat with Danielle Kelly ahead of their national tour.
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JPR welcomes Southern Avenue to our studio for a JPR Live Sessions on July 3rd. JPR Live Sessions is a series of live in-studio music performances and conversations with artists. The series is hosted by JPR Open Air hosts Dave Jackson and Danielle Kelly.
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The Beach Boys' co-founder, songwriter and producer transformed pop music into high art and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.
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The musical visionary led a multi-racial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early '70s.
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No one show swept this year — and it turns out, that's a good thing.