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Composer Joe Wong brings his cinematic flair to 'Mere Survival'

The film and TV composer talks about his second solo album, plus scoring hit shows like The Midnight Gospel.

March 14, 2024
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  • Stephen Kallao and
  • Miguel Perez
Listening to Kim Gordon's new album <em>The Collective </em>uncannily bottles up the feeling of being on the Internet, trying to discern what's real and what's not.

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  • Music Interviews

Kim Gordon on her intense, disorienting, beat-driven new solo album, 'The Collective'

The artist's radically inventive new album produced with Justin Raisen plays like an apt distillation of what it's like to live right now.

March 08, 2024
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  • Paula Mejía
The Bat for Lashes beacon has been lit; it's shaped like a bat, of course, but somehow features an intricately woven lace pattern.

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  • Music

8 Tracks: Are you here to rekindle the flame of love?

You, a Pisces full of wisdom, have discovered a new song that lights up your soul. This week on 8 Tracks: Mild to wild obsessions with SZA, Bat for Lashes and Alice Coltrane.

February 27, 2024
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  • Lars Gotrich
Maggie Rogers' new song, "Don't Forget Me," is a folksy, yet fierce singalong.

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  • Music

8 Tracks: We reimagine Lilith Fair for 2024

Recent songs by Maggie Rogers and Kacey Musgraves took NPR Music's Lars Gotrich back to a familiar sound and ethos. On this edition of 8 Tracks, we dream up a Lilith Fair lineup.

February 19, 2024
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By:
  • Lars Gotrich,
  • Hazel Cills,
  • and 5 more
Over 90 minutes, the <em>অন্য (ONNO) </em>compilation surveys India's experiment music scene: pulsing noise, avant-pop, freak folk, astral synths and surging industrial.

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  • New Music

8 Tracks: The old technology that can fit in your pocket — and connect worlds

The cassette is not only a tool of communication but also one of creation. This week on 8 Tracks, NPR Music's Lars Gotrich celebrates new music released on his favorite format.

February 12, 2024
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  • Lars Gotrich
Beth Gibbons' first solo album, <em>Lives Outgrown</em>, is out May 17.

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  • New Music

8 Tracks: Portishead's Beth Gibbons is a 'passenger on no ordinary journey'

Gibbons returns with a solo album, Lives Outgrown, and a song that wonders beyond this life. On this week's 8 Tracks, NPR Music's Lars Gotrich listens to songs that explore what happens next.

February 07, 2024
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  • Lars Gotrich
Hurray for the Riff Raff's Alynda Segarra captures a complicated reality on their new song, "Colossus of Roads."

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  • New Music

8 Tracks: Hurray for the Riff Raff's twang is heart full, but heartbroken

Alynda Segarra examines our frailty and resilience with an unsparing, yet tender cadence. This week on 8 Tracks, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich looks at lyrics that stand on their own as poetry.

January 31, 2024
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  • Lars Gotrich

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  • Music Reviews

Can Thom Yorke escape his own voice?

The second album from Radiohead offshoot The Smile is very good. But can its singer ever transcend his role in his revolutionary other band?

January 29, 2024
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  • Grayson Haver Currin
Katie Von Schleicher performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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Tiny Desk Premiere: Katie Von Schleicher

With an eight-piece band, the singer-songwriter brings her wry charm to the Tiny Desk.

January 29, 2024
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  • Elle Mannion
Singer and composer H. Sinno is bringing a site-specific opera to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Temple of Dendur.

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  • Arts & Life

An ancient Egyptian temple in New York inspires a Lebanese American musician

H. Sinno, former lead singer of the pioneering Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila, pairs their own history with that of the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur in their new opera.

January 27, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
In her 2015 memoir, <em>Girl in a Band</em>, Kim Gordon credits The Shangri-Las' speak-sing style as an influence on her own. The '60s girl-group's lead singer, Mary Weiss, died last week.

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  • Music

Kim Gordon raps her shopping list — it's hot and terrifying

Sonic Youth's co-founder took her cues from a '60s girl-group but forges a new lane. NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich functions as your antidote to the algorithm in eight tracks to know this week.

January 25, 2024
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  • Lars Gotrich
The Japanese House performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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  • Music

The Japanese House: Tiny Desk Concert

The U.K. singer-songwriter recasts four of her electro-pop songs in fresh arrangements.

January 18, 2024
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  • Stephen Thompson
The late musician Prince, performing at the Super Bowl in 2007 in Miami Gardens, Fla.

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  • Arts & Life

Prince's 'Purple Rain' is becoming a stage musical

Plans are still coming together, but two up-and-coming names on Broadway are already attached to the Prince project: playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and director Lileana Blain-Cruz.

January 08, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
PJ Harvey

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  • Music

At a crossroads, PJ Harvey went back home to rekindle her imagination

The English alt-rock star talks about writing in the Dorset dialect of her childhood home on her new album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, plus she performs live with a special guitar.

December 15, 2023
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  • Raina Douris and
  • Kimberly Junod
Alvvays performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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  • Concerts

Alvvays: Tiny Desk Concert

The band's recreation of its billowy, shoegaze-y sound lights up the Tiny Desk.

December 15, 2023
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  • Stephen Thompson
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