NPR Music 10: 2015
In 2015, Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly spawned a protest anthem, Hamilton rewrote history and Sufjan Stevens dug into his own past.
March 6, 2015
The last remaining sheet music store in Manhattan closes
It may have survived beyond its era into the digital age, but when Frank Music Company, which had been open for 77 years, closed its doors on West 54th Street in Manhattan for the final time, it was the subject of tributes and pilgrimages from distraught fans. As its owner, Heidi Rogers wrote in a farewell note, the rise of Internet giants like Amazon had made the store "a shadow of its former self." We pay a cost for getting everything we want at the moment we want it. This was one.
March 30, 2015
Jay Z relaunches Tidal
Madonna and Deadmau5 side-hugged, Alicia Keys quoted Nietzsche and 16 very famous equity partners lined up in alphabetical order for the strangest
