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William Onyeabor: Who Is William Onyeabor

Review by Will Hermes, NPR, 20 October 2013

IF FELA KUTI was a child of James Brown, fellow Nigerian William Onyeabor is something like the next-generation musical offspring of Parliament-Funkadelic. His songs are ...

A Tribe Called Quest: We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service

Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, NPR, 11 November 2016

EXPLAINING THE return of A Tribe Called Quest to the pop firmament is nigh impossible without hyperbole, so here goes: Imagine the Beatles had reunited ...

Margaret Moser: Queen Of Austin, Is Dancing In The Light

Report and Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, NPR, 22 June 2017

JUNE 18 WAS the beginning of a week-long Open House at Tex Pop, the South Texas Museum of Popular Culture — a storefront wedged between ...

A New Canon: In Pop Music, Women Belong at the Center of the Story

Essay by Ann Powers, NPR, 24 July 2017

Turning the Tables: why make a list of the greatest albums made by women? To start a new conversation, and to rewrite history. ...

Willis Alan Ramsey: The Follow-Up

Retrospective and Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, NPR, 9 April 2018

The price of perfection is cheap, if that's all you spend your money on. ...

Kate Bush: How Kate Bush's The Dreaming Made My Monsters My Own

Retrospective by Ann Powers, NPR, 26 August 2021

Occasionally, a woman artist will make it her mission to speak as the monster others fear her to be, turning shame into strength. That's the ...