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First Listen: The Suffers, 'Everything Here'

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First Listen: The Suffers, 'Everything Here'

July 5, 2018 • On the group's second album, Kam Franklin and The Suffers revel in the multidimensional, multicultural possibilities of their take on soul.

First Listen: The Suffers, 'Everything Here'

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First Listen: Luluc, 'Sculptor'

July 5, 2018 • The Australian folk duo's follow-up to 2014's wonderful Passerby broadens Luluc's palette and subject matter in rewarding ways.

First Listen: Luluc, 'Sculptor'

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First Listen: Deafheaven, 'Ordinary Corrupt Human Love'

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First Listen: Deafheaven, 'Ordinary Corrupt Human Love'

July 5, 2018 • On Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, the band's first album in three years, Deafheaven leans more fully than ever before into elements that inspire alternate outrage and obsession.

First Listen: Deafheaven, 'Ordinary Corrupt Human Love'

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Bad Bunny's Double Knockout: Our Favorite Latin Songs This Week

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Bad Bunny's Double Knockout: Our Favorite Latin Songs This Week

July 4, 2018 • On this week's playlist, Bad Bunny blesses us with not one but two summer bangers and De La Ghetto throws it back to childhood romances with the help of Maluma and Wisin.

American Anthems: The Songs That Unite Us

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American Anthems: The Songs That Unite Us

July 3, 2018 • Sometimes it's a stirring call to arms or a recognition of injustice. But an anthem always captures something much larger than itself - the spirit of a community, unified in a common feeling or cause.

American Anthems: The Songs That Unite Us

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Heavy Rotation: The Songs We're Obsessed With Halfway Through 2018

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Heavy Rotation: The Songs We're Obsessed With Halfway Through 2018

June 30, 2018 • For this month's edition of Heavy Rotation, stations selected songs that their listeners couldn't get enough of during the first half of the year.

New Music Friday For June 29: Seven Albums You Should Hear Now

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New Music Friday For June 29: Seven Albums You Should Hear Now

June 29, 2018 • This week's best new albums includes Drake's highly-anticipated double album, Scorpion, Florence and the Machine's High as Hope, previously unheard music from jazz legend John Coltrane and much more.

New Music Friday For June 29: Seven Albums You Should Hear Now

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Stream Florence + The Machine's 'High As Hope'

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Stream Florence + The Machine's 'High As Hope'

June 29, 2018 • The new album preserves Florence Welch's big, torrential melodrama, but it feels less like a storm than the soft light breaking in afterward.

Hear A Never-Before-Heard, Piano-Only Demo Of Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain'

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Hear A Never-Before-Heard, Piano-Only Demo Of Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain'

June 28, 2018 • The 10-minute recording, from a new box set, finds Axl Rose alone at a piano, banging out the bones of what would become one of his biggest hits five years later.

Norwegian Indie-Pop Band Beezewax Returns With 'Rainbows'

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Norwegian Indie-Pop Band Beezewax Returns With 'Rainbows'

June 28, 2018 • The long-running band's first single in four years mixes exuberant guitar-fuzz with a danceable ennui.

Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Fortunate Son' Now Has Its First-Ever Video Treatment

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Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Fortunate Son' Now Has Its First-Ever Video Treatment

June 28, 2018 • Ahead of the band's 50th anniversary and America's birthday, Creedence's new video is, like the hit song it honors, a paean to the people.

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Fans Of '90s Indie Rock Need To Hear Hello June

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June 28, 2018 • The West Virginia-based band's new single, "Mars," will bring you back to the days of Bill Clinton and MTV's 120 Minutes.

Alt.Latino's 12 Favorite Latin Songs Of 2018 (So Far)

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Alt.Latino's 12 Favorite Latin Songs Of 2018 (So Far)

June 28, 2018 • We laugh, we cry, we celebrate the best of the year so far with everything from bugalú to boleros to Latinx punk.

Alt.Latino's 12 Favorite Latin Songs Of 2018 (So Far)

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Watch Mitski's Colorfully Surreal 'Nobody'

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Listen To Projects By Justin Vernon And Brittany Howard

June 26, 2018 • On this week's All Songs Considered, hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton have a bleakly funny track from The Decemberists, jangly-pop from Shy Boys, gentle folk from Bermuda Triangle and more.

New Mix: The Decemberists, Bermuda Triangle, Justin Vernon And S. Carey, More

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Watch Kamasi Washington Beat A Professional Gamer In 'Street Fighter Mas'

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Watch Kamasi Washington Beat A Professional Gamer In 'Street Fighter Mas'

June 22, 2018 • As a kid, Washington thought he was the best Street Fighter player in the world. Now he proves it by championing professional gamer Combofiend.