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By Jess Gitner
Past covers of Vibe. Chris Brown will be the cover boy for the relanuched Vibe's first issue. (courtesy of Vibe)
Len Burnett helped launch Vibe, a hip-hop music magazine, back in 1993, and he's just launch...
Years after suffering a debilitating hand injury, young violinist Maya Shankar recently made a joyful return to music. Here, she returns to
From the Top, the classical kids program that celebrates its 10-year anniversary by checking back with some of its alumni.
He wrote the words, and sometimes the music, for more than 1,500 songs, among them "Skylark," "Blues in the Night" and "Moon River." He had a few hits himself on Capitol Records — which he started. He was a great American lyricist, and today marks the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Mayer Hawthorne (aka Andrew Cohen) brings a light-hearted geekiness to soul music. Hawthorne talks with host Michel Martin about his musical journey from Hip Hop DJ to falsetto crooner and performs songs from his album
A Strange Arrangement.
Lea Michele (Rachel), Cory Monteith (Finn) and Amber Riley (Mercedes) from the cast of
Glee join David Dye to chat about the runaway hit show and its music in this session from
World Cafe.
One hundred years ago this past Friday, a bandleader named Polk Miller put together an unusual recording session. Miller — who was white — recorded seven songs with a black vocal quartet. But the man who led these sessions was no civil rights activist.
The German composer utilizes powerful orchestral sounds, as well as silence, to elicit a psychological and emotional response from the listener. Who better than conductor Daniel Barenboim, a veteran of the opera pit, to pull it all off?
Anne Midgette, classical music critic from the
Washington Post, and NPR's Tom Huizenga look back over a decade of changes in the world of classical music.
America is used to exporting its culture. It's called soft power, this ability to dominate the tastes of people in other countries. So it's not such a big deal for an American band to tour in China. But a Chinese rock band taking the stage in New York? That's new.
His father was a Beatle, but Dhani Harrison wanted a musical project that didn't carry the burden of his family name. So he started a band called thenewno2, where he's created a sound and a promotional strategy that is all his own.
On Nov. 14, Hafez Nazeri will headline at Carnegie Hall. The young Iranian musician has been attracting attention for "Sounds of Peace," an East-meets-West program inspired by a progressive political vision. Or is it?
The Baltimore Symphony conductor chooses a season of music built on the belief that understanding where we come from, and celebrating diversity, can create a sense of continuity, history and belonging — not to mention some great concerts.
Since Weezer's debut in 1994, the band has released six more albums, gone through a re-organization, and earned a devoted following. Their new album is called
Raditude. Last year, Rivers Cuomo, Weezer's lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter, released two solo CDs of songs that didn't make it onto the band's albums.
Thurston Moore is a musician who, aside from being in the legendary band Sonic Youth, has collaborated with everyone from Glenn Branca to Lydia Lunch to Mike Watt. For Moore, Internet culture doesn't mean replacing music experience so much as reconfiguring it.
Everyone could have Miles and Trane and Bill Evans. But Russell, the behind-the-scenes theorist caught in the middle of one of jazz's most fertile periods, and largely overlooked for that reason, became one of
my heroes.
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