Jon Batiste. His monumental new album, We Are , is on our shortlist of the best new albums out on March 19. Louis Browne/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Pianist and composer Jon Batiste is perhaps best known as the bandleader on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert , where he's loved as much for his comical banter as he is for his gleeful performances. His monumental new album, We Are , shows another side, with profound reflections on race and identity in America and a soul-stirring mix of gospel, jazz , funk and more. Features include a New Orleans marching band, a gospel choir, novelist Zadie Smith, Trombone Shorty and others.
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Junkie XL On Scoring 'Zack Snyder's Justice League,' 4 Years After Being Fired : NPR
Dutch composer Tom Holkenborg, aka Junkie XL. Dirk Kikstra/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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In some ways, making a movie isn't too different from running a business: At the end of the day, it's just a set of relationships. Financial interests clash with creative ones. The mission depends on who's in charge. And when new management comes in, sometimes people further down the chain find themselves suddenly out of a job, too.
Exclusive Premiere: Alana Springsteen's 'Trying Not To' Music Video | PEOPLE.com
"We both knew right away that we had something special, and this song needed to be out in the world. I'm such a fan of Roman's music," Springsteen tells PEOPLE. "The texture his voice adds to this song as well as his delivery is so important to it. You feel it as soon as he sings in the first verse. I just don't hear this song any other way."
The Nashville transplant from Virginia Beach also shares how the songwriting process for "Trying Not To" came to be.
Music Streaming Giants To Pay $424 Million In Royalty Fees : NPR
Streaming has revolutionized the music business, including how songwriters get paid. Now the 20 biggest streaming platforms have been ordered to pay $424 million in unmatched royalties to artists.
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Music streaming brought boom times back to the music business after years of disruption. But that doesn't mean that everybody's getting paid. Last month, news broke that many of the biggest streaming platforms had been sitting on more than $424 million of royalties. Here's Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi from our daily economics podcast, The Indicator.
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Met Opera's Music Director Decries Musicians' Unpaid Furlough - The New York Times
Urging the Metropolitan Opera to compensate its artists "appropriately," the company's music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, sent a letter to leaders at the Met on Thursday saying that the many months its orchestra and chorus had gone without pay during the pandemic had become "increasingly unacceptable."
He sent the letter as the Met's musicians were scheduled to receive their first partial paychecks since they were furloughed in April. Before this week, they had been the last major ensemble in the country without a deal for at least some pay during the pandemic.
Missing Music Streaming Royalties for Songwriters : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR
But as it turns it, many of those songwriters have actually not yet been paid for all those sweet tunes we've been streaming non-stop. Last month, news broke that 20 of the largest music streaming platforms had been sitting on no less than $424 million in so-called "unmatched royalties". That's money that they had collected but didn't know whom to pay.
On the Indicator: how did the big music streaming platforms end up owing $424 million dollars to the songwriters and music publishers they depend on? And what does that tell us about the state of the music business?
'Music is a way of reclaiming time': Behrouz Boochani's lauded memoir becomes a poetic musical
The cycle's seventh song, about the little blond girl, begins with uplifting, lyrical singing accompanied by an attractive melody. But then the song lines become "infused with a very dark, dissonant harmony", and percussive music takes hold, reflecting Boochani's widely shared anger over the Australian government placing children in detention. "Where in the world do they take children captive and throw them inside a cage?" writes Boochani.
The song cycle follows the memoir's trajectory: the first half is a sea odyssey, followed by a section dominated by a "weaving, dark line" of bass clarinet, tuba and low strings to accompany Boochani's observations of the island prison. The work finishes by drawing on some of Boochani's final philosophical lines and lamentations.
The day the music returned. The Evening Muse plans reopening. | wcnc.com
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — One of Charlotte's most popular music venues, The Evening Muse , is planning its reopening. The popular venue in Charlotte's NoDa neighborhood has been closed for in-person shows since the coronavirus pandemic began.
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With COVID-19 cases going down and more people getting the vaccine . Kuhlmann said they're making plans to re-open in May.
"It was a long year for everybody, so I think everyone's excited to get back out and be together," NoDa resident Robert Brown said.
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