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Play It Forward: Angel Bat Dawid Knows How To Deliver Emotion Through Song

Monday, April 05, 2021

NPR speaks with Angel Bat Dawid about capturing emotion in sound, Chicago's influence on her music and the artist she's most grateful for: George Clinton.

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'Music Is Music': A Rapper And A Conductor Cross Centuries In Louisville

Friday, March 26, 2021

Rapper-turned-politician Jecorey Arthur is teaming up with Teddy Abrams, the head of the Louisville's orchestra, for a musical collaboration tackling racial injustice.

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Play It Forward: Devonté Hynes' Grammys Surprise And Biggest Inspirations

Friday, March 12, 2021

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with artist Devonté Hynes about how his Grammy-nominated classical album Fields came together and the artist he is most grateful for – Angel Bat Dawid.

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On 'Collapsed In Sunbeams,' Arlo Parks Welcomes Endings And Change

Friday, February 05, 2021

The artist, who is also a mental health ambassador for the British charity CALM, examines mental health and friendship on her new record, Collapsed in Sunbeams.

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Langhorne Slim Finds Peace In The Chaos On 'Strawberry Mansion'

Wednesday, February 03, 2021

After getting help with his addiction and while pausing for the pandemic, Langhorne Slim found songs — happy, sad, anxious, joyful — to be pouring out of him like deep breaths.

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Rivers Cuomo On Weezer's Latest, 'OK Human,' And The Need To Riff (Or Not)

Friday, January 29, 2021

Cuomo says Weezer is always looking to try the opposite of whatever it just did. Case in point: the band's new orchestral record, made back to back with a metal album.

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On 'Swirling,' Marshall Allen Keeps The The Sun Ra Arkestra Soaring Through Space

Monday, November 02, 2020

The 96-year-old saxophonist, who began playing with Sun Ra in the late '50s and continued to lead the Arkestra after its namesake's death, discusses the band's first album in more than 20 years.

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In Lara Downes' New Series, Black Musicians Rise To A Pivotal Moment

Monday, October 26, 2020

The pianist joins Ari Shapiro to discuss Amplify With Lara Downes, a video series on Black musicians who have experienced renewed creativity regarding racial injustice.

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Autopsies Spark Legal Fight Over Meaning Of Cruel And Unusual Punishment

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

An NPR investigation follows the legal battle unfolding over evidence that many inmates' lungs fill with fluid as they're executed by lethal injection.

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Autopsies Show Inmates' Lungs Filling With Fluid As They're Executed

Monday, September 21, 2020

An NPR investigation looked into the autopsies of inmates executed by lethal injection and found evidence that such deaths are far less peaceful than states have claimed for decades.

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Gasping For Air: Autopsies Reveal Troubling Effects Of Lethal Injection

Monday, September 21, 2020

For decades, states have claimed that lethal injection is quick, peaceful and painless. An NPR investigation — and legal battles across the country — tell a different story.

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NPR Probe: The Troubling Effects Of Lethal Injection

Monday, September 21, 2020

A new investigation from NPR finds that lethal injection causes severe pulmonary edema in the lungs of inmates before they die. The method was first introduced in the United States in 1977.

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Meet Linda Diaz, The Winner Of The 2020 Tiny Desk Contest

Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Host Ari Shapiro talks with Linda Diaz, the winner of this year's NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest. Her entry, "Green Tea Ice Cream" is a dreamy R&B song anchored by her skilled and soulful voice.

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The Psychedelic Furs' Richard Butler On The Band's First New Album In 29 Years

Friday, July 31, 2020

Singer Richard Butler talks about the power of '80s nostalgia, the state of rock and roll today and the freedom of making the band's new record, Made of Rain, on its own terms.

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Margo Price On The Mysterious Process Of Album-Making And Motherhood

Monday, July 13, 2020

The country artist talks to NPR's Ailsa Chang about how following her muse to make the hard-rocking That's How Rumors Get Started is a lesson to herself and her kids on following their dreams.

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Impromptu Logistical Networks Assist Protesters Behind The Scenes

Friday, June 05, 2020

Behind the scenes of the nationwide protests, volunteers have created an impromptu supply chain to keep protesters fed, hydrated, and safe.

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Moses Sumney Puts The Industry Behind Him And Explores The In-Between On 'Grae'

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to the experimental musician about his new genre-defying, double album grae, his decision to move from Los Angeles to Asheville, N.C. and not shaving down the edges of himself.

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Old Language, New Clothes: Sweet Crude On Singing Modern Pop In Louisiana French

Friday, April 24, 2020

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to the New Orleans-based band about their project to preserve the centuries-old Louisiana French dialect through music and how the city is coping with the coronavirus crisis.

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Mandy Moore On Self-Forgiveness And Her Musical Reawakening On 'Silver Landings'

Friday, March 06, 2020

After a decade-long gap between albums, the singer and This Is Us star talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro about returning to music, conquering self doubt and revisiting old songs.

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Revisiting Beethoven's Beloved, Radical Symphonies For His 250th Birthday

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts all nine symphonies this year. He spoke about the surprisingly political side of Beethoven's music with All Things Considered.

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