- Like roséwave, Lorde is back. It's been four summers since the release of her 2017 album Melodrama; now, the singer-songwriter has returned with the confident, sunny single, "Solar Power."
- The 2021 Tiny Desk Contest closed for entries this week, and now our judges will start to search for a winner. In the meantime, we’ve been sharing weekly lists of the best entries we’ve seen. Plus, on All Songs Considered, Bob Boilen played a song from 2018 Contest winner Naia Izumi and a track from musician and producer Maddie Jay, who Bob first heard when she performed with Izumi on tour.
- This time last year, Morning Edition was looking for ways to chronicle and make sense of this tumultuous moment. That led to the launch of the Morning Edition Song Project, which asked musicians to write one original song about their experience. Now, after 25 entries, the project’s final installment comes from the celebrated composer and pianist Vijay Iyer, who says his composition was an attempt to account for the toll of “carrying all of this confusion and loss and anxiety and rage, all at the same time … for months and months.”
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You might know Merry Clayton as one of rock’s most important and arresting backing vocalists (for starters, see The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter," Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" and Carole King's Tapestry). But for her Tiny Desk (home) concert, her powerful, knowing voice is center stage as she performs songs that testify to the power of faith and friendship.
Also this week: We shared a Tiny Desk (home) concert from Tom Jones on the Welsh singer’s 81st birthday, plus an acoustic performance from songwriter and producer Rostam. |
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