Originally debuted at Carnegie Hall just weeks after the election, the Midwestern indie-folk troubadour unveils a protest song for a new era.

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Hear new albums by Ibeyi, Shania Twain, free jazz ensemble Irreversible Entanglements and more in a list compiled by the NPR Music staff.

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As the superstar tenor's voice grows deeper and darker with age, he's still able to float notes of pillowy softness on his new album devoted to French opera.

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Kesha has begun her tour in support of Rainbow, her first album in five years, bringing both a weighty triumphalism and uncomplicated fun to the Ryman Auditorium.

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When Mancari isn't playing with Brittany Howard in Bermuda Triangle, the singer-songwriter is making some of the most profound music in Nashville. Stream her debut album.

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Smith's kaleidoscopic song-cycle is a contender for electronic album of the year. Stream it now in its entirety.

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The son of The Beatles' George Harrison will finally release his debut solo album in October, but you can stream the gifted guitarist's In///Parallel in its entirety now.

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On its first album since 2010, the Canadian band returns with a rousing, urgent, vaguely hopeful set of songs about modern disconcertment.

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Stream the new album by singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman, who has a gift for making the complicated sound effortless.

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The prodigious San Antonio band's new anthology is a tempting selection of its most enduring singles, from the era that helped propel the band from Texas locals into national stardom.

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Superstardom should have been a foregone conclusion for the genre-blending singer. Her passionate proclamation of an album was initially hard to pigeonhole, but made its mark over time.

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The Pogues' Spider Stacy, Leyla McCalla and the saxophonist Dickie Landry contribute to a deep, atavistic and swampy version of "Kalenda."

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Singer Mat McNerney wraps fake friends around a reckoning with the surveillance state in a catchy, sweeping and lustful fit of gothic punk.

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The metal band called Those Once Loyal "the ultimate Bolt Thrower album" — and the basslines of Jo Bench created the foundation upon which the band's thunderous, crusted-over sound was built.

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