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On the The Passionate Ones, his second album as Nourished by Time, Baltimore native Marcus Brown plumbs the ways that class and labor become inseparable from creativity. Lauren Davis hide caption
After making two critically acclaimed, musically adventurous albums in the early 2010s, Alabama Shakes went on a hiatus that stretched nearly a decade, while lead singer Brittany Howard (center) released solo work. Now, Howard and guitarist Heath Fogg (left) and bassist Zac Cockrell have reunited to tour and release new music, starting with the song "Another Life." Bobbi Rich hide caption
Artists including the band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (left) and Jess Glynne (right) have spoken out about the Trump administration using their music in social media posts. David Wolff - Patrick/Getty Images; Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
The 21-year-old South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim plays like an old soul. On a new album, he puts his own stamp on lesser-known music by Tchaikovsky. Bonsook Koo hide caption
How Yunchan Lim changed my mind about Tchaikovsky’s ‘Seasons’
Questlove is charting the history of America through its music
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STAR LINE comes six years after Chance the Rapper's studio debut, The Big Day, which ended the hot streak he'd enjoyed on his 2010s mixtape run, but may have set him on a radical new path. Keeley Parenteau hide caption
Released 10 years ago this week, Carly Rae Jepsen's album Emotion was a critic's darling out the gate. Mark Horton/Getty Images hide caption
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, composed Woodland Songs, a suite of animal character studies, for the Dover Quartet. Shevaun Williams hide caption
Dover Quartet teams up with Chickasaw composer on album 'Woodland Songs'
Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, circa 1905. U.K. National Archives hide caption
Who's the Clown? — out Aug. 15 via RCA Records — establishes Audrey Hobert as an unconventional new voice in pop. Lenne Chai hide caption
For listeners who buy physical media, some of the biggest major-label releases of the past year have packed an unwelcome surprise. Jackie Lay/NPR hide caption
Unlike other tech giants — including YouTube, Meta and TikTok — Spotify is not currently taking steps to label AI-generated content. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Louisville-based musician Ryan Davis played in bands like State Champion for a dozen years before initiating a solo projoect in the 2020s. The latest album by Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, New Threats From The Soul, builds on the loose charms of that earlier work. Justin Murphy hide caption
Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė writes multilayered music that she hopes will grant listeners the freedom to enter an altered state of mind. Laura Bianchi/Courtesy of the Bogliasco Foundation hide caption
Songs of Love Foundation founder and president John Beltzer uses tools from the AI music platform Suno to create a personalized track for an older adult with dementia. Songs of Love Foundation hide caption
Songs of Love writes personalized music for kids — but can AI carry the tune?
