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"WhoSampled is the leading destination for sample-based music, covers, and remixes, housing the world’s most comprehensive database of music with more than 730,000 samples spanning more than 1,000 years. The UK-based company founded in 2008 was the first to really map out music in a way that allows you to explore its DNA."

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"Throughout world history, music has served as a balm for those living under oppression, as much it’s served as a tool of empowerment. The latest installment in Rolling Stone‘s new weekly playlist series, “Music at Home,” features 12 tracks honoring the legacy of global Black resistance in song. Feel free to blast these songs as you pre-game for the next protest against anti-Black violence and police brutality — or alternatively, as you direct money towards jail support and mutual aid funds from the safety of your own home."

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"For decades, most of what jazz scholars have known about the late, Philadelphia-based pianist and composer Hasaan Ibn Ali came from a single 1965 album – The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan."

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"The historic and powerful events of the past two weeks are unlike anything I have ever witnessed or experienced. The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have ignited a global protest movement, sparking demonstrations all around the world in support of Black Lives Matter and racial justice. Reflecting on current events, I was inspired to put together this playlist* of music by artists from many different countries. These songs of protest, resistance, change, anger, and also of hope, shine a light on the struggle for equality and respect as basic human rights."

*Featured Playlist Below

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"On a recent afternoon in a brightly lit studio in Brooklyn, Mervin Primeaux-O’Bryant and Brandon Kazen-Maddox were filming a music video. They were recording a cover version of “Midnight Train to Georgia,” but the voices that filled the room were those of Gladys Knight and the Pips, who made the song a hit in the 1970s. And yet the two men in the studio were also singing — with their hands. "

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"One of the annoying things guitarists at any level face is an instrument that won’t stay in tune. Whether on stage, in the studio or just in the bedroom, those pesky strings can slip out of tune in an instant, and typically at the most inopportune times."