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PLAYLIST: A musical guide to each Paris Olympics sport, from archery to wrestling

From the dazzling opening ceremony to warmup songs, music is intrinsic to the Paris Olympics now underway

The Independent UK

“I’m not really a fan of Taylor Swift. When it comes to pop icons, I would choose Billie Eilish.” Ex-Sonic Youth alt. rock icon Kim Gordon risks the wrath of the Swifties, admits “I couldn’t tell you what her music sounded like”

Kim Gordon "couldn’t tell you" what Taylor Swift's music sounds like

Louder

Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence of drug use, then lay for hours on a stretcher in the hallway, unrecognized and unattended. Her estate amounted…

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From John Lennon to NWA: 14 of the best protest songs, ranked

From Marvin Gaye to Little Simz, here are 14 songs that illuminate the power of protest music to make change, as ranked by Finn Cliff Hodges

The Independent UK

Q&A: Andra Day talks new album, playing a villain and regaining confidence after injuring vocals

Andra Day gained acting acclaim after her starring role in a 2021 Billie Holiday biopic, but the soulful singer nearly lost the strength of her powerful voice during the process

The Independent UK

Courtney Love: “Taylor Swift is not important. She’s not interesting as an artist”

She’s never held back, and Courtney Love isn’t about to start now. With a new BBC radio series hitting the airwaves, the rock legend and honorary Londoner tells Dylan Jones that while she champions women in music, she’ll sure as hell never be a Swiftie

Evening Standard

Marlena Shaw obituary

American soul and jazz singer best known for California Soul, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy and Go Away Little Boy

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Australia on stage: the best theatre, musicals, dance and opera of 2023

From ballet to Afrofuturism to a world-class immersive spectacle, Guardian Australia critics pick out the best live stage experiences of the year

The Guardian - AU

Music show: Ala.ni puts her own 'dark Disney' twist on the Christmas music genre

Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined in the studio by British singer-songwriter Ala.ni for a very festive edition of arts24. Ala.ni has just released the second instalment of her two-part Christmas EP "Christmas Vol.2", a mix of original tracks and covers such as Joni Mitchell’s "River". Her "dark Disney" vocals are…

France 24

How Black socialite Mollie Moon raised millions to fund the civil rights movement

Historian Tanisha Ford tells the story of the Harlem activist credited with raising millions to build economic and racial equality in the U.S. Ford's new book is Our Secret Society.

WEKU

‘There was no one better’: Peruvian singer finally takes her place among all-time greats

She was compared to Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf. Now, fifty years after her death, Lucha Reyes finds a new audience

The Guardian - UK

‘When it hits a low C, it takes you to another dimension’: the musicians in love with obscure instruments

Why settle for a recorder when you could wield a contrabass clarinet – or something you invented yourself? Meet the players drawn to the unusual

The Guardian - UK

Zahra Newman on becoming Billie Holiday: ‘I want people to feel how they do when they listen to her’

The Jamaican-born Australian performer delivers an uncanny evocation of the jazz singer in an upcoming cabaret set during the last year of Holiday’s life

The Guardian - AU

"All her pain, all her beauty, those incredible songs, she deserves sainthood": the rock world pays tribute to Sinead O'Connor

Tributes flood in for iconic Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, whose death, at the age of 56, was announced yesterday, July 26

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Tony Bennett obituary

American singer whose artistry and power earned him hits in the 50s and 60s, and a late career renaissance

Chicago Sun-Times

Rosetta Tharpe, who helped turn gospel sounds into rock ’n’ roll, mentors newcomer in Northlight play

‘Marie & Rosetta’ depicts a pairing of singers whose made ‘intoxicating’ music together, playwright says.

The Guardian - UK

‘The theatricality of that costume is off the scale’: celebrating two centuries of diva fashion

From Victorian opera singers to Debbie Harry, a new exhibition celebrates the historic and iconoclastic fashion of women in charge of their own destinies

Zenger

Deborah Jane’s ‘Strange Fruit’ Film Revisits The Past To Fix The Future In Racial Reconciliation

Jane understands the importance of locating the problem to get to the solution.

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Turning 96, Chicago jazz guitarist George Freeman is still playing and about to release a new record

To celebrate his birthday, Freeman and his band are playing two shows at the Green Mill in Uptown.

The Independent UK

How to spend a day in Fells Point, Baltimore’s seafood-loving, historic neighbourhood

With the oldest saloon in the US, iconic seafood stops and a reimagined 18th-century market, the Maryland ’hood offers the perfect blend of old and new, writes Richard Franks

Evening Standard

Women who rock: as a new Sky documentary launches, we look at its pick of music’s female pioneers

Ahead of Sky’s new documentary about female artists, we take a look at those, from Nancy Wilson to Chaka Khan, who made waves on and off-stage

Chicago Sun-Times

Intimate portrait of Billie Holiday emerges in Mercury Theater’s multifaceted ‘Lady Day’

Running at the snug Mercury Theater’s Venus Cabaret space, “Lady Day” stands as a showcase for Holiday and the actress playing her, Alexis J. Roston.

The Orange County Register

50 years ago, these were the No. 1 albums of 1973 (and a few other classics, too)

In 1973 the album charts got weird. Sure, there were classic albums by iconic artists such as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and Elton John that topped the charts that year. Two different ones in Elton’s case.

Los Angeles Times

How Tyler Perry offered a 2-word theme and songwriter Ruth B. brought tears to his eyes

In the Jim Crow South of the 1930s and '40s, in poor, rural Georgia, forbidden love struggles up through the briars. The teens, Bayou and Leanne, find they can be together only in the dead of night, signaling each other with paper planes. The message received, they head for their…

The Independent UK

Well noted: A selection of some music-themed gifts this year

The Associated Press is recommending for music lovers gifts including vinyl box sets by Neil Young, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, Paul McCartney and heavy metal icon Iron Maiden

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