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- This week, All Songs Considered is filled with exciting and powerful collaborations. On Bob Boilen’s New Mix, he plays a new song that came together thanks to the internet: After Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds shared an improvisation online, and, a thousand miles away, singer Ella McRobb posted herself singing over it; now, they’ve released the track, called “and we'll leave it there…” Also this week: WRTI’s Nate Chinen spoke to the members of Love In Exile — pianist and composer Vijay Iyer, singer Arooj Aftab and bassist Shahzad Ismaily — about the astounding interplay on their new record.
- Adele has long had a fraught relationship with the physical and emotional costs of touring. Critic Bilal Qureshi saw the powerhouse singer perform as part of her Las Vegas residency (which she announced this week would be extended for another set of dates ending in November) and wondered: In the controlled stillness of a Vegas theater, has she finally found her place?
- For the last two decades, Arcade Fire has been the most visible export of the Montréal music scene. But since the end of August, the city’s artists and fans have had to reckon with sexual abuse allegations against the band’s lead singer, Win Butler. Writer Yara El-Soueidi spoke to members of that community about how the scene is responding to the allegations and how they hope to rebuild in the aftermath.
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“I'm not meant to be understood,” singer Durand Bernarr told the Tiny Desk team before his performance. “I'm meant to be experienced.” Watch his eclectic, high-energy Tiny Desk concert to experience it for yourself. Also this week: We shared a delightful set of fuzzy-yet-sparkling indie pop from The Beths and a Tiny Desk (home) concert filled with Easter eggs for fans of the Athens, Ga., music scene from The Bad Ends. |
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Louder Than A Riot, our podcast about rhyme and punishment, began its second season this month. Last week, the podcast told the story of the MC Sha-Rock, the first woman MC in hip-hop history. If you haven’t heard of her, you aren’t alone. “The retelling of hip-hop history centers men,” the podcast’s hosts, Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael explain, “often excluding the women in the same frame.” On the podcast, they tell MC Sha-Rock’s story: her entry into early hip-hop culture as a B-girl, her emergence as a pioneering MC, her groundbreaking performance on Saturday Night Live and her long-running fight to preserve her legacy. You can also read a digital version of the story — and see photos from throughout Sha-Rock’s life — on our site. And this week, the team took on another set of forces that hold women in hip-hop, past and present, back: beauty standards and body policing. “Whether it's coming from ex-boyfriends, internet trolls or entire corporations,” the Louder Than A Riot team writes, this pressure on women “is real and it's never been more normalized.” The podcast talks to three rappers — DreamDoll, Baby Tate and Doechii — who are pushing back against the male gaze. And on our site, you can read more about how Doechii tried to make a music video that subverted expectations about Black women’s bodies, but ended up being penalized by those very expectations. |
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