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Latin Grammy Nominees Feature A Few Surprises
Spanish singers Bebe, Concha Buika and Canadian Nelly Furtado were all nominated this year.
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Why Albums Are Released On Tuesdays In The U.S.
No one seems to know why the Tuesday tradition started. But this is why all other days don't work.
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The XX Won The Mercury Prize
The debut from the British trio won the 2010 prize for best album released in the last year.
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When Jazz And Not-Jazz Converge
The Dirty Projectors is a weird rock band. Guillermo Klein is an idiosyncratic Latin jazz composer. But their bodies of work converge in several surprising ways. Where do you see alignments, intentional or not, between jazz and its fellow genres?
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Think Music Heals? Trombone Player Begs To Differ
For years, trombone player Scott Bean had a cough that wouldn't quit. A doctor later figured out that mold and bacteria living in his trombone caused him to develop a condition that's being called "trombone players' lung."
