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Kyle Gass and Jack Black of Tenacious D performing live.
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Songs to make you laugh, with 'Weird Al' Yankovic
Image from the cover to Laraaji's 2023 album, Segue to Infinity.
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Relax: Songs to calm the nerves
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Exclusive: André 3000 reveals why his new solo album has no bars — and no boundaries
The trio Love In Exile — (left to right) Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily — say that sharing responsibility for the music collectively allows them greater freedom as individuals.
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How Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily conjured Love In Exile
Felix Kammerer stars as Paul Bäumer in Edward Berger's 2022 adaptation of All Quiet On The Western Front
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How the score for 'All Quiet on the Western Front' made a familiar tale surprising
The Wang family in a scene from Everything Everywhere All At Once
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How Son Lux wrote the perfect score for the year's most bonkers Oscar movie
Beyoncé's long-awaited seventh solo album, Act I Renaissance , is due out Friday, July 29.
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The power of Beyoncé is about to change music... again
HBO's Insecure not only identified a shift in Black music over the last five years, it helped distinguish it.
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Legacy, Okay?! For Black musicians, 'Insecure' created a new world of possibilities
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Sara Watkins Reimagines Childhood Music On Beautiful New Album
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Peter Stampfel's Mammoth '20th Century In 100 Songs'
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Let's Celebrate Beethoven's 250th
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Sylvan Esso Launch New Podcast, 'Shaking Out The Numb'
Tank and the Bangas perform with Cuban singer Cimafunk, the Soul Rebels and The Queen of the Guardians in Havana, Cuba.
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Tank And The Cubans: A Week In Havana
The All Songs Considered Holiday Extravaganza, 2019
Big Thief released two of Bob Boilen's favorite albums in 2019: U.F.O.F. and Two Hands.
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"I'm always trying to one-up myself. I don't feel like I'm in competitive with anybody," Megan Thee Stallion says.
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Megan Thee Stallion At Tiny Desk Fest: 'I'm Always Trying To One-Up Myself'
Rock band "Blind Faith" pose for a portrait in 1969. (L-R): Steve Winwood, Ric Grech, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton.
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A photo of the Ribaudo family tomb in the Staglieno Cimitero Monumentale in Genoa, Italy was used as the cover art for Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart."
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Lucy Dacus' sophomore album, Historian , tops the list of Bob Boilen's favorite albums in 2018.
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A shoe can say so much about a band's sound.
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