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Mariah Carey's Memoir Is Further Proof: She Has A Gift For Storytelling
There’s nothing quite like an intricately designed Mariah Carey lyric. You know it when you hear it, because it involves a kind of vivid wordplay so… -
The Ballad Of Billy Joe Shaver And Jerry Jeff Walker, Country Outlaws
The world, by way of Texas, lost two of its most iconoclastic, deservedly mythologized artists this past month – Jerry Jeff Walker,… -
Cándido Camero, A Father Of Latin Jazz, Dies At 99
The pioneering Cuban percussionist Cándido Camero has died at age 99.Camero’s grandson, Julian, told NPR member station WBGO that the Cuban conguero died… -
Kylie Minogue On Making Dance Music In A Year Without Discos
When Kylie Minogue was a kid growing up in Australia, her parents played a lot of disco at home. As she and her siblings danced around the house to… -
Namir Blade's Beautiful, Dystopic, Extraterrestrial Rap
Nashville’s Namir Blade seemed to emerge out of nowhere with the fully formed vision of Aphelion’s Traveling Circus, a concept album with an elaborate… -
Play It Forward: Laraaji Loves To Laugh
On the last edition of Play It Forward, All Things Considered's chain of musical gratitude, Brooklyn-based musician and producer Nick Hakim spoke about… -
Daisha McBride, The Rap Girl, Can Do Anything
Daisha McBride, The Rap Girl, has channeled her performing abilities, affably clever personality and college-level industry studies into her own version… -
Hip-Hop In Nashville Is Making Its Own Way
It’s no wonder that journalistic surveys of Nashville’s hip-hop underground typically frame the mere fact of its existence as a big reveal. To a large… -
Stevie Nicks On TikTok, Tom Petty And Claiming What's Yours
At any hour of any day, somewhere on the radio dial, chances are you can find the voice of Stevie Nicks. This summer, decades after her 1970s breakthrough… -
Arcade Fire Returns With 2020's First Big Post-Election Protest Anthem
This year’s interminable election season has helped spawn an outsize assortment of frequently vital protest music. Late Tuesday, as part of Stephen…
