Your Stories About “I Won’t Back Down”; Spring Concert Season
Plus, the first-ever metal band at the Tiny Desk.
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We here at the NPR Music newsletter have a humble suggestion: Let’s change the adage “April showers bring May flowers” to “April showers bring May shows.” The period between South by Southwest and summer festival season feels especially stacked when it comes to concerts. Earlier this week, your newsletter editors saw Pedro The Lion in support of Phoenix, one of our favorite records of January. Other members of the NPR Music team have caught a range of musicians, from Maren Morris to Saba to High Spirits. And of course, All Songs Considered’s Bob Boilen can be found at a show nearly every night of the week (check out his Instagram for snapshots from gigs all over D.C.); he recently saw a particularly memorable set by Ohmme (who also stopped by his desk).
What show are you most excited to see this spring? Let us know.
What a great week for new albums! From Charly Bliss’ balance of sugary sounds with millennial angst to composer Holly Herndon's brilliant AI collaboration to Jamila Wood’s poetic celebration of African-American identity and more, hear about our favorite new releases on this week’s episode of New Music Friday from All Songs Considered.
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Brandi Carlile released a heartwarming video for her song “The Mother.”
NPR’s public radio music stations are always ahead of the curve on the best new music; their selections for May’s Station Breaks list include modern alt-country from Pittsburgh, celebratory hip-hop from St. Louis, indie rock from Boston and more. (Plus, check out some entries to the Tiny Desk Contest that public radio loves.)
Featuring
As part of our American Anthem series, we asked NPR listeners to tell us how Tom Petty’s ode to resilience "I Won't Back Down" has inspired them as a personal anthem. More than 700 people shared their stories.
New Orleans has a fairly spotty track record when it comes to preserving cultural landmarks, but the blighted former residence of pioneering jazz musician Buddy Bolden may avoid being lost to time, as he nearly was.
“I wanted a different kind of power,” Ani DiFranco says about her decades-long career as a musician with her own label. In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, she talks about how it all got started.
Tiny Desk
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The first-ever metal band at the Tiny Desk makes some of the heaviest, most tortuous music around. But at Bob Boilen’s desk, Thou showed us just how crushing quiet can be.
Incoming
Coming soon: C is for cookie, but it’s also for concert – Tiny Desk concert, that is.
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