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Mac Phipps, the rapper formerly signed to No Limit Records, has been granted clemency after 21 years in prison. Dale Edwin Murray for NPR hide caption
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Music venues, like the Metro in Chicago, have gone through a long and uncertain wait for aid passed by Congress in December. KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Shuttered Venue Grants Are Coming In April, After A Long Wait
Cassette tapes gave new control to music fans, allowing them to create and share their own collections of songs in a cheap and easily portable format. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
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Lara Downes. Her recent album, Phenomenal Women, featured recordings of compositions by Black female composers whose legacies have been overlooked by the classical establishment. Max Barrett/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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With Her Recording Series ‘Rising Sun,’ Lara Downes Re-Centers Black Composers
Jeremie Pennick, better known as Benny The Butcher, in a portrait from 2021. His new album, Plugs I Met 2, will be released March 19. Cam Kirk/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Bunny Wailer was the last living founder of iconic Jamaican reggae band The Wailers. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
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Dolly Parton, pictured performing in May 2014, shared a video of herself getting her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. Wade Payne/Invision/via AP hide caption
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Bunny Wailer photographed in London in 1988. David Corio/Redferns/Getty Images hide caption
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Bunny Wailer, Iconic Reggae Singer And Wailers Co-Founder, Has Died At Age 73
Ralph Peterson Jr., performing in 2012 at Symphony Space in New York. Dave Kaufman hide caption
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From left: Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer and Linda May Han Oh. The trio, Iyer’s newest, collaborated on the album Uneasy. Craig Marsden/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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McKinley “Mac” Phipps at Lousiana’s Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in 2011. Courtesy of the Phipps family hide caption
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Rapper Mac Phipps, After 20 Years In Prison, Is One Step Closer To Freedom
Fans photographed on the eve of Daft Punk’s album launch, held in the tiny Australian town of Wee Waa, on May 17, 2013. Shanna Whan/AFP/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Bobby Shmurda at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Oct. 30, 2014. Taylor Hill/Getty Images hide caption
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Bobby Shmurda Is Coming Home. What Happens Next?
Julien Baker’s new album is called Little Oblivions. Alysse Gafkjen/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Protesters clash with Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan police force, following a demonstration Saturday in Barcelona against the imprisonment of Spanish rapper Pablo Hasel. Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City remains closed following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on Jan. 16, 2021. Cindy Ord/Getty Images hide caption
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U-Roy, performing at Reggae Sunsplash in Montego Bay, Jamaica on Aug. 8, 1984. David Corio/Redferns hide caption
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Milford Graves, circa 2000, in front of his house in South Jamaica, Queens, N.Y. New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News via Getty Images hide caption
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Johnny Pacheco, seen here in 2007, died at the age of 85 on Monday. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images hide caption
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Fania Records Co-Founder Johnny Pacheco Dies At 85
Young Jada Salter and her grandfather, William Salter, in 2002. Jamal Salter hide caption
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‘Just The Two Of Us’ Songwriter Found His Sound In Solitude
Singer Britney Spears at an appearance in Hollywood in July 2019. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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