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npr.org | Raina Douris
Walking through the streets of Rome, it's obvious that the Eternal City takes its history seriously. Remnants of the past are immaculately preserved wherever you go, including the first stop in our latest Sense of Place series. Four Flies Records is a label devoted to preserving and releasing old soundtracks from Italian B movies - low-budget films originally screened as the lesser-known half of a double feature during the early 20th century.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Raina Douris |Kimberly Junod
2 hours ago“Our youth must be helped, and not hindered, in their journey towards maturity and true responsibility,” he said. Pope Leo XIV criticized the potential negative consequences of growing AI use in a message this week — an emerging through line of his papacy. The message, released by the Vatican this …
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kyuk.org | Stephen Thompson |Raina Douris
S.G. Goodman 06:24 Hotline TNT 04:25 EHAIM 03:22 Yaya Bey, Father Philis 03:26 Kelsey Waldon 03:08 Seven Davis Jr. 06:10 U.S. Girls 03:20 Matthew Shipp 03:59 ETropical Fuck Storm 04:06 Georgie Sweet 04:14 Neggy Gemmy 03:46 SOPHIE 03:00 Surusinghe, Cameo Blush, Kassie Krut 04:05 EBAMBII, Jessy Lanza, Yaeji 02:48 Makaya McCraven 02:42 Joshua Redman, Paul Cornish, Philip Norris, Nazir Ebo 05:07 Biosphere 08:09 Little Mazarn 03:03 The Feelies 02:46 James McMurtry 04:39 William Beckmann 02:59...
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kvcrnews.org | Stephen Thompson |Raina Douris
It's Friday, which means its time to stave off your existential dread with a bumper crop of excellent new releases, including (if you ask us) some of the very best albums to come out this year.
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1 week ago | 
ctpublic.org | Stephen Thompson |Raina Douris
It's Friday, which means its time to stave off your existential dread with a bumper crop of excellent new releases, including (if you ask us) some of the very best albums to come out this year.
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wshu.org | Raina Douris |Kimberly Junod
Forty years ago this year, in Philadelphia, one of music's most influential singing groups was born. They would call themselves Boyz II Men. A few years after Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris, Shawn Stockman and Michael McCary found each other, they put out "Motownphilly."World Cafe correspondent John Morrison has a new book called Boyz II Men: 40th Anniversary Celebration. Today, he joins us to talk about how the group changed popular music.
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3 weeks ago | 
wrvo.org | Raina Douris |Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
Jasmine Cruickshank, who performs as Jasmine.4.t, walked away from a songwriting workshop — led by none other than Adrianne Lenker — with a key piece of wisdom: Creative endeavors must start from a place of acceptance. That's something the British singer-songwriter had been struggling with just before she came out as trans and began her gender-affirming transition. "As soon as I came out, all of these songs that are on the record ... started pouring out of me," she says.
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3 weeks ago | 
npr.org | Raina Douris
Set ListJasmine Cruickshank, who performs as Jasmine.4.t, walked away from a songwriting workshop - led by none other than Adrianne Lenker - with a key piece of wisdom: Creative endeavors must start from a place of acceptance. That's something the British singer-songwriter had been struggling with just before she came out as trans and began her gender-affirming transition. "As soon as I came out, all of these songs that are on the record ... started pouring out of me," she says.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Raina Douris |Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
9 hours agoUS actor Jonathan Joss has been shot dead in what his husband says was a homophobic hate crime, although police have said they have found no evidence of that. Joss, 59, was known for voicing John Redcorn on long-running TV animation King of the Hill, and played Chief Ken Hotate in sitcom Parks and …
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4 weeks ago | 
npr.org | Raina Douris
Ben Kweller started playing music when he was a little kid, when his dad taught him to play the drums. Almost immediately, Kweller started writing his own songs, and by his mid-teens, he was showing up on late-night television playing with his band Radish. When Kweller became a dad himself, he passed that love of music along to his kids, including his son Dorian, who was a budding musician on the cusp of success when he was killed in a car accident in 2023 at just 16 years old.
