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Goodbye, Music Tuesday: Albums Now Come Out On Friday

A crowd gathers at Hollywood's Amoeba Music for a free weekday concert in 2007. A new shift to Friday album releases could spell logistical trouble for independent record stores like this one. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Goodbye, Music Tuesday: Albums Now Come Out On Friday

Around the world, new albums will now be released on Fridays. While the change is meant to help keep music from leaking early online, it could create some new headaches for music sellers.

Goodbye, Music Tuesday: Starting Today, Albums Come Out On Friday

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Eilen Jewell, The Half-Broke Horse Of Idaho, Returns Home

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Eilen Jewell, The Half-Broke Horse Of Idaho, Returns Home

"It's a ghost town, essentially," Jewell says of her hometown. "I mean, that's how it's listed on the map. It's about as Western as it gets."

Eilen Jewell, The Half-Broke Horse Of Idaho, Returns Home

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Hop Along's 'Painted Shut' Invokes Two Mysterious Musicians

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Hop Along's 'Painted Shut' Invokes Two Mysterious Musicians

Frances Quinlan, singer and guitarist for Hop Along, says that writing a song is an experience that's almost painful. "When you record something," she says, "it's forever."

Hop Along's 'Painted Shut' Invokes Two Mysterious Musicians

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Sleater-Kinney's Deleted Scenes

Sleater-Kinney's new album, its first since 2005, is No Cities to Love. Left to right: drummer Janet Weiss, singer-guitarist Corin Tucker, singer-guitarist Carrie Brownstein. Brigitte Sire/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Sleater-Kinney's Deleted Scenes

The beloved punk trio is back after nearly a decade away. Hear a few candid thoughts from the members about singing, live performance and having famous fans.

Sleater-Kinney's Deleted Scenes

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History

Depression-Era Photos Make A Mark In American Photography

A Yale University project has organized and mapped photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information from 1935 to 1946. Now there's an online tool to explore them.

Depression-Era Photos Make A Mark In American Photography

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A Musician Writes A Soundtrack For His Grandparents' Love Story

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A Musician Writes A Soundtrack For His Grandparents' Love Story

"I wanted a chance to have other conversations with him," Peter Miller says of his late grandfather, whose letters to his wife inspired Miller's new album with We Are the Willows.

A Musician Writes A Soundtrack For His Grandparents' Love Story

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Photography

Depression-Era Photos Make A Mark In American Photography

A Yale University project has organized and mapped photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information from 1935 to 1946. Now there's an online tool to explore them.

Depression-Era Photos Make A Mark In American Photography

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Music

New God's 'Firework,' Celebrating Childhood Joys Of Summer

Brothers Kenny and Curt Thompkins were inspired to record an album in a racquetball court after hearing the acoustics there last year. The result appears in their new album, out this week.

New God's 'Firework,' Celebrating Childhood Joys Of Summer

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Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Release 'A Long Way To The Beginning'

Seun Kuti, who is the son of Afrobeat star Fela, leads his late father's band. With their 3rd album, A Long Way to the Beginning, Kuti says he and the band have finally perfected their Afrobeat sound.

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 Release 'A Long Way To The Beginning'

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In Photos: Moroccan Motorcycle Mashup

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The Picture Show

In Photos: Moroccan Motorcycle Mashup

Photographer Hassan Hajjaj's "Kesh Angels" share a similar name to Hell's Angels. But they're not a gang. They're Moroccan. And women. And really colorful.

In Photos: Moroccan Motorcycle Mashup

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The Muppets: Still Pulling Strings In The Music World

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The Muppets: Still Pulling Strings In The Music World

"Bein' Green," "Rainbow Connection," "Movin' Right Along" and other classic Muppet songs get the all-star treatment on a tribute album featuring Andrew Bird and OK Go.

The Muppets: Still Pulling Strings In The Music World

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A Poster Shop's Illustrated History Of American Music

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A Poster Shop's Illustrated History Of American Music

Etta James, Chuck Berry, B.B. King, Solomon Burke — the list of artists whose images and shows have appeared on Globe Posters goes on and on. And for showgoers, a Globe Poster signified that an event was really happening. See some of the Baltimore print shop's decades-long history of iconic concert posters.

Globe Poster: An Illustrated History Of American Music

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A Curtain Call For Austin City Limits' Famed Studio

American television's longest-running music series wrapped up its 36th season Monday night with a performance by Lyle Lovett, and says goodbye to the space where Willie Nelson got things going in 1974 -- KLRU's Studio 6A.

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Funk On A 45: D.C. Soul Music Rediscovered

A recently unearthed trove of rare funk 45s proved so obscure that the DJ who found them, Kevin Coombe, decided to catalog the music himself. That led him to create DC Soul Recordings, an online database of historic Washington, D.C., and Maryland funk and soul. Then he started finding the musicians who made the records.

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