Jenny Gathright
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The singer and songwriter has been thinking a lot — about Harriet Tubman's hair, her grandmother's handwriting and how to craft love songs with revolutionary potential.
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Indie hip-hop has us asking what artistic freedom really means. The story of a Chicago rapper named Saba offers a few answers.
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The Slingshot artist talks about her love for Chicago, why she sees staying in the city as "an act of resistance" and the renewal she wants listeners to find in her music.
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Inspired by the death of Eric Garner, the jazz singer asks an essential question in the spacious track, featuring trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: "What is needed for the change to come?"
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Five critics join forces on this week's All Songs Considered to unpack the some of the highlights of Turning The Tables.
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The jazz composer and pianist wrote the devotional work after her conversion to Catholicism. For her long, endlessly inventive and astonishing career, she belongs at the center of our canon.
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Music is doing its job when it makes you feel like you can actually sit with your angst.
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The Top Dawg singer's new album is as dreamy as we all hoped it would be. Code Switch and NPR Music tapped in a few members of the NPR fam to chat with us about how SZA and Ctrl resonates with them.
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Vagabon captures what makes relationships with other people so scary and easily torn in a video shot on 35mm film.
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The soul singer's debut album is both irresistible and challenging.