Everything we know about the Astroworld tragedy so far
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Bassoonfluencers: The world of Instagram practice accounts
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Biz Markie had exactly what hip-hop needed - Rap’s pioneering ‘Clown Prince,’ as remembered by his friends, family, collaborators, and admirers
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Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, reggae giant and dub pioneer, dead at 85
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In 'Stockholm Syndrome', the new documentary on rapper A$AP Rocky's 2019 assault trial in Sweden, the rapper recalls the moment things went from weird to surreal
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Blackalicious rapper, Gift of Gab, passes away at 50
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The mainstream narrative is that Sinead O’Connor ripped up a photo of the pope on “Saturday Night Live” and derailed her life. What if the opposite were true?
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Black-owned record stores are disappearing while vinyl sales are skyrocketing. Some shop owners say it's a sign of a 'whitewashed' industry.
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LG Petrov, frontman for Swedish metal favorites Entombed, dead at 49
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Alexi Laiho, frontman for Finnish metal giants Children of Bodom, dead at 41
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Bob Dylan sells entire catalog of songwriting to Universal Music
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Arlo Guthrie retires from touring: ‘It’s time to hang up the gone fishing sign’
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Jazz legend Keith Jarrett may never perform again after suffering two strokes
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Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres
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It’s been a record year for guitar sales
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In the jungle: Inside the long, hidden genealogy of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
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Kanye West says he’s done with Trump—opens up about White House bid, damaging Biden and everything in between
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Show taper/defense attorney represents George Floyd protesters pro bono
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The nine-woman feminist rap group Daughters of Reykjavik was mocked online and in Iceland's news media – so they're taking their message elsewhere
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Exclusive first look at new photograph of blues legend Robert Johnson
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Tony Allen, pioneering afrobeat drummer, dead at 79
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The weirdly enduring appeal of Weird Al Yankovic
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The restorative pause of Silent Record Week
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Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead collaborator and lyricist, dead at 78
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The hardest song I ever chased
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Vinyl is poised to outsell CDs for the first time since 1986
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How the tastemaker music festival Iceland Airwaves is transforming Reykjavík
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The Book of Prince: Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live
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After Hurricane Katrina, a priceless musical archive was thought lost. It showed up in Torrance.
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The survival of Iggy Pop - An inventor of punk rock on his long career, the future, and swimming in Miami
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Denmark has a national songbook – should it mention Ramadan?
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A$AP Rocky has been detained in Stockholm for two weeks while investigations continue into an assault charge
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Here are hundreds more artists whose tapes were destroyed in the UMG fire
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The day the music burned - The 2008 Universal fire was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew
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Japanese-style listening bars, where DJs spin carefully selected records for a hushed audience, are arriving in America. But truly appreciating them can take a little practice.
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A retrospective of Radiohead's career
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Hip-hop artists give the US Supreme Court a primer on rap music
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A country music artist navigates an art form altered by America’s poisoned politics
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They really don’t make music like they used to - A look at the "loudness war" and how it's affected the mastering of popular songs and this year's Grammy nominees
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Maroon 5’s Super Bowl halftime show was just as mind-numbingly dull as you feared
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To save the sound of a Stradivarius, a whole city must keep quiet
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Demand for cassettes surges as music fans hit rewind
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Washington state officials passed a bill to rename a post office near Jimi Hendrix‘s hometown of Seattle to honor the guitar god.
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Mariah Carey song from 1994 breaks music streaming record: “All I Want For Christmas Is You” was streamed nearly eleven million times on December 24th, 2018
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100 greatest Bruce Springsteen songs of all time
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New doc ‘Fire Music’ sets the record straight on free jazz
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Meet the guy tasked with archiving Prince’s entire vault
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A family’s 400-year-old musical secret still rings true
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Aretha Franklin, music’s ‘Queen of Soul,’ dies at 76
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The death of the electric guitar
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