Andrew Flanagan
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Aldean was the headliner at the final night of the annual three-day-long country music festival that has been held on the Las Vegas Strip since 2014.
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The singer, inspired as a teen by James Brown, didn't release his first album until 2011, at the age of 62. For the six years that followed, through a battle with cancer, he never wasted a moment.
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A deal between China's dominant tech companies reveals a lot about the country's approach to policing culture.
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The country legend behind "I Believe In You" and , whose career spanned five decades, died at home in Alabama after a short illness.
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Streaming services, blogs and musicians have been busy this week distancing themselves from white supremacy.
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The album, titled I Believe In You, has Parton revisiting one classic and delivering several new ones, like "Makin' Fun Ain't Funny."
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As the trial ended its first week, the judge ruled that a former radio host couldn't prove the singer had set out to get him fired. Swift's suit accusing him of grabbing her during a photo op remains.
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Two new lawsuits against the music streaming leader landed this week, over issues that have already twice led to settlements.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with NPR Music's Andrew Flanagan about Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again" setting the new record for YouTube views.
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The survival of the MP3 is more complicated than the lapse of a patent and its marketplace by its inventors. A wide-ranging discussion with professor Jonathan Sterne helps us unpack its implications.