Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording. Hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.
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Since launching in 2000, All Songs Considered has been NPR's flagship program for music discovery, artist interviews and conversations with friends and fellow music lovers about the really big questions, like what was the best decade for music, are there albums everyone can agree on, and what do you put on when you need a good cry? Weekly, with host Robin Hilton and the NPR Music family.
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Tiny Desk Concerts from NPR Music feature your favorite musicians performing at All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's desk in the NPR office. Hear Wilco, Adele, Passion Pit, Tinariwen, Miguel, The xx and many more. This is the audio version of the podcast. A video version is also available.
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Series about pieces of music with a powerful emotional impact
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WXPN's live performance and interview program featuring music and conversation from a variety of important musicians
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Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2019, Songlines magazine covers the world's most exciting music from traditional and popular to contemporary and fusion, featuring artists from all around the globe. Songlines is packed full of the latest CD reviews, artist interviews, guides to particular world music traditions, concert-listings, travel stories and every issue comes with an exclusive compilation CD.
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The Guardian's Music podcast is our irregular but ever excellent look at music culture. Each week a special guest joined the Guardian’s Kate Hutchinson to discuss a musical theme, from Neneh Cherry on her journey from jazz to punk, to Stewart Lee’s survey of music and stand-up comedy. It’s very Guardian
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The Watt From Pedro Show
Mike Watt (solo artist, Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Iggy Pop and The Stooges) playing some tunes and doing some spiel. Assisted by brother matt and coming to you from the wild kingdom at the pleasure point, in San Pedro California! TWFPS www.twfps.com
Mike Watt (solo artist, Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Iggy Pop and The Stooges) playing some tunes and doing some spiel. Assisted by brother matt and coming to you from the wild kingdom at the pleasure point, in San Pedro California! TWFPS www.twfps.com
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Stories About Music From Around The World
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UPDATE: We moved over to simplecast https://albumbyalbum.simplecast.fm/ Album by Album is a weekly conversation about music and the way it changes our lives.
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This is the Sub Pop Podcast, a product of Sub Pop Records, the Seattle-based record label since 1988. Hear stories from inside, outside, and adjacent to Sub Pop, straight from the horse's mouth. Season 3 begins May 23, 2017 with a new episode out every other Tuesday. Absolutely nothing sounds better.
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Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present, with appropriate and accessible music related to each.
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The podcast about people who make cool music! BEYOND SYNTH is the best synth music chat show there is. Featuring artists and producers who make synthwave/new-retro/electronic music and much more!! We talk Music, games, movies, the 80s, and lots more while I play samples of the guests music.
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Sound Design Live - Career building interviews on live sound, theatre, AV, recording, and sound system tuning
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Build your career as a sound engineer. The podcast for live audio professionals. Interviews with the leading innovators in concert, theatre, and corporate production. Submit your questions: http://buff.ly/Nwpsf0 Nathan Lively is a Career Coach for Audio Professionals, Podcast Consultant for Small Businesses, and Author.
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Hear the interview of the week from the Music Show, where composer Andrew Ford entertains and informs a wide audience each week, providing two hours of essential listening from the world of music.
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iTunes and the Apple Store bring you up close and personal with some of today's hottest musicians, producers, singers, and songwriters. Subscribe to the podcast and stay up to date on the biggest names in the music industry.
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In each episode of Tell Me About Your Song, host Jacob Haller talks to a different songwriter about a song they wrote. Concisely edited, with a variety of guests, this show is recommended for anyone who wants to take a deep dive into the creative process!
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Mark Blankenship and Sarah D. Bunting are journalists, friends, and music fans who love talking about pop music of all stripes.
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Random topic + Random music genre = Song salad. Writing partners Shannon & Scott tempt the salad spinner of fate as they write a short song about a random topic in a random style of music. Can they successfully create a song using both? Can we be a little looser with the word "successfully"?
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Professional musician and educator Demian Arriaga created these 12-15min podcasts with the purpose of Motivating, Inspiring, Challenging, and Empowering young musicians, and people from all walks of life, through opinions, anecdotes and interviews. Some of his credits include: The Jonas Brothers, Richie Kotzen, Gary Cherone, Nick Jonas, Iggy Azalea, Streetlight Manifesto, Yordano, Victoria Justice and Cobra Starship among others. Demian proudly endorses: Zildjian, Vater, Ultimate Ears, Latin ...
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Inside MusiCast provides in-depth interviews with amazing musicians, producers, session players, and front-line artists. We dedicate our podcast to those who go “beyond the liner notes”. Now, you’re inside the music scene.
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The Sing Out! Radio Magazine is a weekly, hour-long “magazine format” program, hosted by Tom Druckenmiller, featuring interviews in addition to “live” and recorded music. The program is currently being aired in over 25 markets nationwide!
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Two passionate audio engineering nerds --- Kush Audio gear designer and avowed analog snob Gregory Scott, and ITB mixing pro Nathan Daniel --- crack themselves up while answering listeners' questions about everything from gear and plugins, to the psychology of mixing, to what makes a song grab the listener's ears and heart and how to get more of it into your productions. Whether you mix professionally on a 9000J or in your bedroom on Cubase, these ballbusting fanatics of sound will spark you ...
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The Nightly Music Soundscape
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Talk Music Talk is a weekly interview podcast hosted by singer-songwriter/author, boice-Terrel Allen. It features long-form discussions with singers, songwriters, authors, producers and others who are connected to music of all genres. Talk Music Talk isn't only about people who make music or write about music, it also gives voice to the behind-the-scenes players. Tune in every week to discover people whose lives range from music therapy and meditation to teaching and performing. Talk Music T ...
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A six part series about Irish Experimental Music. Ireland is home to a variety of underground music scenes, from electro acoustic, to new music to noise to free improv. I've interviewed dozens of Irish experimental musicians who are pushing the boundaries of what music is and can be. This series takes you on a tour of the fringes of music, and introduces you to a world of new sounds. It focuses in particular on circuit bending, chiptune, electroacoustic and collaborative music.
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Voted "Best Jazz Podcast" in the JazzTimes Critics' Poll for four consecutive years, The Checkout championed the music we call jazz — along the trend lines and on its outer edges. Hosted, produced and curated by Simon Rentner, the show focused on the compelling personal narratives behind today's most exciting artists.Check out the rest of our line up at WBGO Studios.
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Pianist Hugh Sung shares stories, songs, and interviews with musicians from a wide variety of genres, including Classical, Folk, Rock, Jazz, and beyond. Visit http://amusicallife.com for all episodes and show notes. New episodes coming every Monday.
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Kinda Neat is a music discovery platform where you might find your new favorite rapper, singer, beatmaker, or pop star. Host, Lee Shaner (aka Intuition), is one of the earliest music podcasters having started his first music podcast over a decade ago in 2011. KN has been the first podcast / YT channel to break artists like Kali Uchis, Ghostemane, J.I.D., and so many others. Tune in for an in-depth look into each artist's journey and the common themes that make people pursue careers in music.
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For older and missing episodes go to https://iowamusicshowcase.bandcamp.com/ The Iowa Music Showcase is just what the name says, a showcase for Iowa music. But it is a showcase for ALL of Iowa’s music, regardless of style, genre, decade, popularity, or location. For the purposes of this webiste and occasional podcast, I am defining Iowa music as music made by a band or artist that was based in Iowa at the time of the recording. Each week, the blog post will feature some source - like a websi ...
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Listen to the stars of tomorrow…today, as well as Berklee faculty members, alumni, and a few legendary artists, coming to the college as visiting artists.
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We love music as much as you do.
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Brand New ! Listen Now ! Muffin Junkee -Sleepyard ------------------------------------------------------------Brother's Oliver and Svein Kersbergen from Stavanger Norways Legendary Band ... Sleepyard ...join Muffin Junkee Pod host Jay Daniels for a series of interviews about the incredible music of Sleepyard ! !-----------------------------------------------> You will hear an amazing selection of Sleepyard Songs ..Handpicked by Oliver and Svein ..including to new exclusive tracks from Sleepy ...
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A podcast from renowned silent film accompanist/historian Ben Model covering the techniques of creating and performing live scores to silent films, as well as a discussion of the language of silent cinema. Find what goes on in the mind of a silent film accompanist before, during and after playing for a show. Learn about the aesthetics of silent filmmaking and storytelling language.
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Adrenalin Room Radio is a monthly podcast from San Francisco based music producer SNR. The show features an eclectic selection of electronic music, as well as industry interviews and guest mixes. Stay up to date at www.adrenalinroom.com
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Join guitarist, Podcaster and former DIY Music Movement host Josh Liston as we go deep into what exactly makes for a "successful" second-act music career.
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In between my crazy schedule with my band Train, I've found time to sit down with friends, new and old, and interview them and play a song or two. Enjoy!
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Music Interviews: Blues, Jazz & beyond
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Epic tales of recording, engineering and audio nerdosity. The Input\Output Podcast is hosted by NYC-based mixer/producers Geoff Sanoff & Eli Janney and produced by SonicScoop.com - an online magazine and community bridging the music, sound and recording industries.
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The Earfull is a weekly audio podcast that explores the lives of musicians through music. New episodes are posted every Wednesday
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All things choral. Director of the Byrd Ensemble, Producer for Scribe Records and host of ThisChoirNerd podcast.
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Life's a circus and this is "The Circus Life". Host Justin Trawick, a DC area songwriter, along with sound engineer Sean Russell record this weekly podcast live from the world renowned Cue Recording Studios in Falls Church, VA, only minutes from Washington DC. Interviews, stories, and live performances by local, regional, and national acts. Find more information at www.thecircuslife.com.
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A series exploring seemingly lesser known sounds across a range of arts genres and pop culture.
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Everything That Rocks!
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Earl Okin is a singer songwriter and comedy performer. This is his show.
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In our second installment of blood-slowing songs we take a deep breath and let it out with the music of Max Richter, Hania Rani, Fleet Foxes, Yasmin Williams and more. Featured artists and songs: 1. Joan Shelley: "Easy Now," from Over and Even 2. Fleet Foxes: "Helplessness Blues," from Helplessness Blues 3. Theo Alexander: "re; Waiting," from Anima…
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Live in the studio with Parvyn and Elana Stone
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Punjabi Australian singer songwriter Parvyn returns to The Music Show to perform songs from her brand new album Maujuda; a seamless fusion of soul, jazz, disco and Indian classical and folk traditions. Elana Stone's new solo album Married To The Sound sees her songwriting tackling some of life's biggest moments. As one quarter of folk band All Our …
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America is Anita's all singing, all dancing number from the musical West Side Story. The Puerto Rican Sharks gang argue over whether America is a great place to live, an argument still being played out by migrants today. With contributions from young migrants to the US as well as an actress who has performed the song in a UK production and a Puerto…
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Synopsis Today we dip into the “Composers Mailbag” for two letters, neither of them dealing with significant musical matters, but both (coincidentally) with wine. In a note dated Nov. 2, 1894, Giuseppe Verdi wrote (in his typically blunt style): “Dear Sig. Melani, I received yesterday the cases of wine. Now what is left is to pay for them. Please s…
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Meet this year's Boyer lecturers, and Afghan-American musician Qais Essar performs live
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We hear from this year’s four Boyer lecturers; pianist and writer Anna Goldsworthy, violist and conductor Aaron Wyatt, composer, conductor and performer Iain Grandage, and Artistic Director of Gondwana Choirs Lyn Williams. They all reflect on the future of classical music in this country. Master of the Afghan rabab Qais Essar performs traditional …
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Los Bitchos' 'Talkie Talkie' is a raucous 1980s discotheque
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Heavily inspired by cumbia, the London-based band has a straightforward ethos: have fun. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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In 1978, a young musician from the Midwest found his way to L.A., and was ushered into the studio to record his debut album with some of the best names in the business, including Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit, JD Souther, Jay Graydon, Larry Carlton, Steve Lukather, and Bill Champlin to create his self-titled debut album that became a …
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New Music Friday: The best albums out Nov. 1
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NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen are your guides to the most compelling new releases of the week, including the first album in 16 years by The Cure and a surprise release by Tyler, the Creator. Featured albums: • The Cure, 'Songs of a Lost World' • Tyler, the Creator, 'Chromokopia' • Willie Nelson, 'Last Leaf on the Tree' • Haley Heynde…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1738, George Frederick Handel completed one of his first great Biblical oratorios: Israel in Egypt, based on the book of Exodus. At this point in time, British taste for Handel’s Italian-style operas had waned, and, like the filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille some 200 years later, Handel set out to entice his jaded audience back…
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Echoes Podcast: Josse Jaffe & Jim Kimo West
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On the Echoes Podcast, two masters of strings, from guitar to ngoni, when we talk to Joss Jaffe and Jim “Kimo” West. Jaffe is a musical explorer. West is a guitarist with a reputation for Hawaiian slack key music but he also plays with Weird Al Yankovic. Go figure. Jaffe studied tabla drum in India and has picked up instruments from around the worl…
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Synopsis Since today is Halloween, how about a supernatural legend in music? The second of three Fábulas — fables or fantastic stories — for violin and piano by Puerto Rican composer Dan Román is titled La Garita del Diablo or The Devil’s Sentry Box. The old port city of San Juan is surrounded by a fortified stone wall built by the Spaniards to pro…
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In 1968, singer and songwriter Graham Nash joined David Crosby and Stephen Stills to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash. All of them had already been in successful bands: Graham Nash had been in The Hollies; David Crosby was in The Byrds; and Stephen Stills was in Buffalo Springfield. The next year, Neil Young joined them, to make Crosby, St…
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The Appalachian dulcimer is now a core instrument in the American tradition, but styles performed by modern dulcimer enthusiasts run the gamut from traditional folk music through popular and experimental forms. This week we'll hear new and classic recordings by Jean Ritchie, John McCutcheon, Sally Rogers, Malcolm Dalglish, Claudia Schmidt and Ken K…
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Tycho on his latest album, 'Infinite Health'
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The record producer and composer sought inspiration from his beginnings in Sacramento for his latest record. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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Synopsis “From whence cometh song?” asks the opening lines of a poem by American writer Theodore Roethke. That’s a question American composer Ned Rorem must have asked himself hundreds of times, while providing just as many answers in the form of hundreds of his original song settings. About his own music, Rorem tends to be a little reluctant to sp…
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The Culture Corner: Digable Planets' 'Blowout Comb' turns 30
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The hip-hop group's second and final album took a sharp sonic turn away from their radio-friendly debut. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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How hip-hop reached global domination
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Over half a century, hip-hop has grown into a globally dominant musical and cultural force while remaining stubbornly, vitally local. When DJ Kool Herc spun records at a small party in the Bronx in August of 1973, no one would have predicted his unique style would give birth to the most influential and dominant music in the world: hip-hop. In this …
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1923, the comedy team of Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles were the star attraction in a new musical called Runnin’ Wild, which opened at the Colonial Theater at Broadway and 62nd Street. In their day, Miller and Lyles were the African-American equivalent of Abbot and Costello or Laurel and Hardy. The plot they crafted fo…
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Cassandra Lewis on her debut album, 'Lost in a Dream'
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The Nashville-based singer-songwriter sought inspiration from Dorothy's journey in The Wizard of Oz. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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Synopsis On today’s date in 2001, the Present Music ensemble premiered a new piece of music, Flight Box, at the grand opening celebrations for a new art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The building was designed by Santiago Calatrava, and its roof looks a little like the wings of a large, graceful bird in flight — at least that’s the impression that…
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Beyond Synth - 413 - Le Cassette Halloween
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Today on the second Halloween Beyond Synth of 2024, Andy is joined by the spooky gentlemen from Le Cassette. What horrors await in the dreaded Cliff House?! What will happen when these terrifying men try to perform an AI generated Horror themed radio play? Join us and find out! We’ll also be listening to lots of cool music along the way!You can sup…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1993, American composer Daniel Asia conducted the Phoenix Symphony in the premiere performance of his Symphony No. 4. The work included a slow movement, written as an orchestral elegy for his friend and composer colleague, Stephen Albert, who had died in a car crash the previous year. But Asia cast his symphony in the tr…
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Some of the most prominent folk singers of the twentieth century like Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan were being surveilled and, in some cases, blacklisted by the FBI due to their political activism and ties to the U.S Communist Party. Writer and historian Aaron J. Leonard has written several books on the subject and is in to reveal why th…
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"Lovely Day" was released in 1977. Its simple blissful melody masks profound lyrics which on closer examination offer hope and solace to many fans of the song. Some of them share their stories here of what it means to them, including two people who had the privilege of meeting and working with Bill Withers. Taro Alexander was a shy insecure young m…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1930, The Age of Gold, a new ballet by Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich opened in Leningrad. At that time, it was trendy for Soviet art to extol sporting events, and contrast the wholesome values of the new Soviet society with those of the decadent, bourgeois West. And so, the plot of this new Soviet ballet ran as fol…
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Experimenting with style: saxophonist Nubya Garcia, and metal trio Black Aleph
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London-based tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer Nubya Garcia is in Australia for Melbourne International Jazz Festival and to play shows in support of her new album Odyssey. Featuring vocalists like Esperanza Spalding and string players from Chineke!, Nubya revels in expanding her sonic palette and pushing jazz into the realms of dub, R&B, …
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New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 25
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NPR Music's Ann Powers and Hazel Cills are your guides to the week's most compelling new releases. Featured albums: • Amythyst Kiah, Still + Bright • Soccer Mommy, Evergreen • Laura Marling, Patterns in Repeat • Elmiene, Anyway I Can • Anna Butterss, Mighty Vertebrate Plus: A discussion of unconventional album release strategies. Check out the comp…
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Synopsis The real story behind Richard Strauss’ decision to use a chamber orchestra for his opera Ariadne on Naxos — which premiered in Stuttgart on today’s date in 1912 — is complicated and a little mundane. We prefer a more “colorful” version that some in Stuttgart have proffered. When a new opera house was being planned for that city, Strauss wa…
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Echoes Podcast Hans-Joachim Roedelius at 90
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Hans-Joachim Roedelius at 90: The Echoes Podcast In the Echoes podcast we celebrate the 90th Birthday of German Composer, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, born on October 26, 1934. He was a founding member of the bands Cluster and Harmonia, two groups who influenced artists like David Bowie on his Berlin Trilogy and especially Brian Eno, who went on to make…
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WATCH: Pixies plays songs from their new album, 'The Night the Zombies Came'
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The alternative rock pioneers perform an exclusive set ahead of the release of their latest album. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1930, Howard Hanson led the premiere performance of the full orchestral version of William Grant Still’s symphonic poem, Africa at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Still had originally conceived Africa as a chamber work, dedicated to and premiered by great French flutist Georges Barrère earlier that sa…
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WATCH: Little Feat pours their motley energy into 'Sam's Place'
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The band co-founded by Lowell George and led by Bill Payne has flourished with their gumbo approach to rock and roll. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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This week on the program we'll feature music on the ukulele. It's a handy instrument that's accessible yet works for many ability levels and different kinds of music, too. You'll hear Jake Shimabukuro, The Dustbowl Revival, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, Gerald Ross, and more. A cheerful addition to your listening … this week on The Sing Out! Radio M…
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Alt.Latino's new music round-up: Elsa y Elmar, Alih Jey and Little Jesus
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Anamaria Sayre brings some exciting new sounds coming out Mexico City (while recording from Mexico City) including sweet new music from Colombian artist Elsa Y Elmar, while Felix Contreras shares new jazz-classical out of Barcelona and more. Songs featured in this episode: •Elsa y Elmar, "Palacio" •Alih Jey, "Luz de Gas" •Little Jesus, "Tierra Llam…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1959, the Detroit Symphony, led by eminent French conductor Paul Paray, gave the first performance of new music by American composer Walter Piston. He had studied in Paris with famous French composition teacher Nadia Boulanger and great French composer Paul Dukas, so perhaps this was an astute paring of composer and cond…
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Hear a live performance from the young Cajun group Amis Du Teche as they perform songs from their latest self-titled album. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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The Contenders, Vol. 19: The songs we can't stop playing this week
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We debate the pros and cons of small-town living through the music of Christian Lee Hutson, Youth Lagoon, Bartees Strange and more in our biweekly update of the year's best songs. Featured artists and songs: 1. Christian Lee Hutson: "Carousel Horses," from Paradise Pop. 10 2. Youth Lagoon: "My Beautiful Girl" (single) 3. Memorials: "Cut It Like A D…
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Synopsis Handel is the composer credited with “inventing” the organ concerto in the 18th century. Handel was a virtuoso performer on the organ, and, as a special added attraction during the London performances of some of his oratorios, one of his concertos would be featured as a kind of intermission feature. This served to showcase his skill as an …
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Synopsis Let’s face it. Brevity and wit are not always qualities one associates with new music. But today we offer a sample: this comic overture is less than five minutes long, and opens, as you just heard, with a Fellini-esque duet for piccolo and contrabassoon. Quantum Quirks of a Quick Quaint Quark is a rather burlesque celebration of modern the…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1950, famous oboist Marcel Tabuteau gave the premiere performance of this Pastorale for solo oboe, harp, and strings, with his colleagues from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The music was by Howard Hanson, who dedicated the piece to his wife Peggy. Hanson was born in Wahoo, Nebraska in 1896. As a talented teenager, he recal…
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Modernist composer Charles Ives at 150 and countertenor Andreas Scholl returns to Australia
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German countertenor Andreas Scholl returns to The Music Show whilst he’s in the country with the Australian World Orchestra. He talks to Andrew about the life of a countertenor: old repertoire, new repertoire, and looking after a voice when great demands are made of it. American pianist Donna Coleman deep dives into the life and influence of Americ…
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"Tender is the night lying by your side / Tender is the touch of someone that you love too much..." - Chris Lightfoot will always associate Blur's song 'Tender' with his first big love. A relationship he moved across the world for, with someone he loved deeply and who changed the course of his life. A relationship he ultimately couldn't make work. …
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Synopsis According to Wikipedia, an art song is “a vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment … often a musical setting of an independent poem or text intended for the concert repertory as part of a recital.” The 600-plus art songs of the Viennese composer Franz Schubert are the most familiar examples of the gen…
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Music from a turbulent 17th-century England, and violinist Véronique Serret explores her voice
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Julia Fredersdorff, Artistic Director of Van Diemen's Band, talks about music from perhaps the most turbulent time in England's history - its Civil War. And, violinist, composer and vocalist Véronique Serret collaborates with nature on her latest (and ARIA Award nominated) album Migrating Bird.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Sense of Place: Step inside Denver's famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre
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New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 18
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NPR Music's Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to this week's most compelling new musical offerings. For October 18, their selections include an array of ambitious, melodic and emotional new albums spanning genres. Plus: celebrating the arrival of a new music website and considering what drives us to write and talk about music in the fir…
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Synopsis In 1958, Minnesota was celebrating its centennial and decided to commission a symphony in honor of the occasion. Just about everyone these days knows there are a lot of Norwegians in Minnesota, but even back in 1958, that was still fairly obvious, and so it seemed a good idea to ask a Norwegian composer to write a Minnesota Symphony. And w…
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I Sing the Song AI-Tony Gerber and the Singing Poet Society: The Echoes Podcast AI is everywhere and so many places you don’t even know it. Last year we even programmed an entire echoes using AI. It was pretty good, but dated. You know AI is in pop and library music, but there is one musician trying to use it for Art. His name is Tony Gerber and yo…
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Sense of Place: Boulder-bred Pink Fuzz makes riotous desert rock
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Just like their name implies, this desert rock trio is buzzy, loud and fun. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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