Give Now. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. Available On Air Stations. Full Schedule. All Streams. Twitter Email. He's not alone. Rising housing costs are pushing many musicians and service workers — the backbone of New Orleans' tourism economy — further and further outside the city limits. To cite one overly invoked example, Bob Dylan singing "Only a Pawn in their Game" with Joan Baez at the March on Washington was era-defining for many who witnessed it; but the Freedom Singers standing next to him, activists who had often been arrested after singing their songs during Southern protests, provided the example he followed.
Dylan simply made it accessible, through his charisma, his whiteness, his channeling voice. Pop stars do this: Almost always, they're not cultural leaders but distillers, making the mood of a historical moment legible to a larger audience. President Trump's executive order on immigration restricting travel to the U. But questions remain about who can and can't come to this country. Among those caught in the confusion are a number of prominent musicians, whose personal lives — and livelihoods — have been put on hold.
Everyone knows they will have to sell at least a small part of their ass at some point. He keeps a small basement room in a co-operative hippie workspace in Kviberg, an industrial area to the north east of Gothenburg, in exchange for low rent and cleaning the communal area. Like many of the cleverest lyricists, Merritt's a songwriter first and singer second, but on "'98 Lovers' Lies," he excels at being both.
One of his most laconic lullabies, it sits right in the grave spot of his register that effortlessly sighs. His beloved alliteration creeps along as though moving in slow motion, as if his compulsive falsifier has him hypnotized. For better or worse, the Saga of the Musical Clitoris has been unleashed on the jazz world.
I'm glad it has. Much feminist work in jazz has focused on the noble goals of celebrating the genre's marginalized women musicians and advocating towards equal representation for them on today's bandstands.
As necessary as representation may be, this scandal reveals that the issue of women in jazz goes deeper, into a gendered construction of the music itself. We need an intelligent public discussion about gendered notions of jazz, and this hot mess might as well be the impetus for that discussion.
As one female industry veteran said online, "it can take a bomb like this to reset course. Satlof's journey began when he was a student at Columbia University in the s. So much of Elverum's mythos — a series of natural-themed metaphors mingling with self-revelations both minor and colossal — has been not just about death, but the beyond.
Now Elverum reminds us, reminds himself, in plain language that warps back to reality with somber precision: Death is real. The SXSW music festival certainly is restless and, for three years now, we've filmed some of our favorite artists performing quieter songs — you could call them lullabies — on hotel beds, off balconies, in art installations and wherever else we could rest and take a minute, to breathe and to listen.
I reach for my copy, only to find that it's gone. This is bothersome, but correctable, I imagine. I am a gainfully employed adult, living in a city with multiple wonderful used record stores, plus there's an entire Internet at my fingertips. I decide to go on a spree, replacing not just the missing album, but finally adding the several I never purchased to my collection. But I discover something odd: Bob Seger's old albums are not only missing from my shelves. They seem to be missing from the world.
A few weeks before he died, Prince and I talked on the phone for an hour, because he unexpectedly wanted to discuss a piece I'd just written for NPR Music. He was funny, feisty, charming and kind. He was also eloquent, articulate and highly intelligent. It was a real conversation about music, the industry, social issues and life in general. He even gave me romantic advice.
He should not have died alone. The fact remains that music by female composers is out there. It's just not being programmed — or programmed very much. I will gently point out that sometimes when people think they have programmed women composers, they are looking at an Excel spreadsheet.
And then they're looking at who are the living women composers — like Kaija Saariaho and Unsuk Chin, for instance. And then you say, "If I've programmed Saariaho for one season, then I've done my job.
Nicholas Payton. Nick Hornby. Nickel Creek. Nico Muhly. Nora Fischer. Offa Rex. Olivia Chaney. Original Cast of Octet. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Our New Orleans. Pat Metheny. Patrick Zimmerli. Paul Jacobs. Paul O'Dette. Philip Glass. Philip Selway. Pokrovsky Ensemble. Punch Brothers. Randy Newman. Rhiannon Giddens.
Rhys Chatham. Richard Goode. Ricky Ian Gordon. Rob Mazurek. Robert Ashley. Robert Finley. Robert Plant. Robin Holcomb. Rodney Crowell. Rokia Traore. Rustavi Choir. Ruth Laredo. Ry Cooder. Sabri Brothers. Sam Amidon. Sam Gendel. Sam Phillips. Sanford Sylvan. Sara Watkins. Sarah Kirkland Snider.
Scritti Politti. Sergiu Luca. Shawn Colvin. Shye Ben Tzur. Sound of Metal. St Germain. Stephen Sondheim. Stephin Merritt.
Steve Reich. T Bone Burnett. Teresa Cristina. Teresa Sterne. Teresa Stratas. Terry Riley. The Arcs. The Bad Plus. The Black Keys. The Blind Boys of Alabama. The Boston Camerata. The Gothic Archies. The Low Anthem. The Magnetic Fields. The Metropolitan Opera. The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. The Odessa Balalaikas.
The Rajasthan Express. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. The Siss Boom Bang. The Staves. The Tango Project. The Wire. Thomas Bartlett. Thomas Newman. As an activist, Kamakawiwo'ole championed Hawaiian sovereignty.
He believed that his fellow natives were second-class citizens in their own land, pushed to the margins as a result of the tourism industry. In his song "Hawai'i '78" the artist summarized his ideals, imagining the disappointment of his ancestors seeing modern Hawaii:. In , Kamakawiwo'ole died at age 38 due to medical complications over his weight. The Hawaiian flag flew at half staff on the day of his funeral. Scenes of Kamakawiwo'ole's funeral were included in the posthumous music video for "Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
To this day, Kamakawiwo'ole remains celebrated for his music and activist for his fellow people. Bezley, Kamakawiwo'ole's friend who was present at his funeral, told NPR what he thinks his friend would have thought of the ceremony. And from the ocean we could hear the echo, the bounce off the mountain ranges. This whole island came together just to say goodbye to this one Hawaiian.
Where does this fall? He was going through the vaults, which are voluminous, and he happened upon two CDRs. Do you remember CDRs? Well, so did Prince. And Michael Howe found this set, "Welcome 2 America.
And it really holds together as a full work, representing what he was up to at the time. I mean never the free, home of the slaves. These were literal albums that they were working on. And it was a really interesting moment in Prince's life and career. So for quite a while, he had been experimenting with releasing music in many different ways. He'd done a deal with Target. He'd done a free release with a U. Prince had also re-established himself as the absolute king and God of live performance.
I mean, he was the undisputed best live performer in America at that time. And I think these sessions show the energy that was just passing through him creatively at the time.
I mean, to me, it holds up - maybe not in the top five, but it is a worthy, worthy release. What is one that stood out to you?
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