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NPR Topics: Music
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Listen to new music, podcasts, live concerts and studio sessions. Watch video sessions. Read interviews with musicians and music reviews. NPR covers the best new songs from rock, pop, folk, jazz, urban, world and classical music.
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Five DC Jazz Festival Artists Actually From The Washington, D.C. Area

An annual jazz festival brings great musicians to the nations capital. But here are five great musicians who will keep the District swinging well after early June — folks like Brian Settles, Fred Fos...

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Around The Jazz Internet: June 1, 2012

Jerry Gonzalez, the late Pete Cosey, anecdotes of a trad-jazz band and your brain on the Internet.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

3 h ago

How An Author And A Singer Became Musical Kin

Writer Mary Karr and musician Rodney Crowell share more than respect for each others work. A new collaborative album draws upon their common experiences growing up on the Texas Gulf Coast.» E-M...

7 h ago

Around The Classical Internet: June 1, 2012

An indictment in Istanbul, Wagner in Israel and a possible Putin protest in St. Petersburg: all the news thats fit to link.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

8 h ago

Hear Patti Smiths Prayer For Earthquake Victims: Fuji-san

Smiths new album, Banga, comes out Tuesday. Hear a potent, passionate song from the record.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

9 h ago

Jean-Yves Thibaudet On Song Travels

The pianist covers Spanish composer Federico Mompou and American popular songwriter Alec Wilder.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

10 h ago

Music Depreciation 101

Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon, from Deceptive Cadence.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

10 h ago

I Just Deleted All My Music

Until this week, All Songs Considereds Bob Boilen had over 25,000 songs stored on his laptops hard drive. Not any more.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

11 h ago

Lana Del Rey On World Cafe

The polarizing singer discusses her Saturday Night Live visit and performs songs from Born to Die.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

11 h ago

Moreland And Arbuckle On Mountain Stage

The band brings a pared-down, lo-fi approach to traditional Delta blues, rock, country and soul.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

12 h ago

The Sounds Of Asparagus, As Explored Through Opera

A Boston chef and a composer recently experimented with opera to help create a new language to describe food and explore the intricate relationship between the two. In this case, pass the asparagus. ...

13 h ago

Andrew Cyrille: Haitian Fascination

In "Marinèt," Cyrille and master percussionist Frisner Augustin collaborate on a breezy but intense Haitian folk tune, focused on Alix Pascals gentle twoubadou guitar and Augustins exacting b...

16 h ago

Jack DeJohnette: 70 Years Of Propulsive, Percussive Mastery

The great jazz drummer is celebrating his eighth decade all year by touring the world and releasing a new album. Here are five songs, from 1966 to the present day, which showcase DeJohnette at the to...

1 day ago

Jack DeJohnette And Friends: Miles On Their Minds

Veteran drummer Jack DeJohnette stops by the Jazz24 studios in Seattle, to perform a studio session with two longtime collaborators: pianist Chick Corea and bassist Stanley Clarke.» E-Mail This...

1 day ago

Brandi Carlile: Bending Notes Until They Break

Known for her soaring melodies and rich, rugged voice, the singer-songwriter performs songs from her new album, Bear Creek, in NPRs Studio 4A.» E-Mail This     » Add t...

1 day ago

Melody Gardot Aims For The Space Between Notes

Gardot captures the sensibility that guides, shapes and defines so much Brazilian music.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

1 day ago

The All Songs Considered Summer Tour: RSVP Now

All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are taking their show on the road — and want you to join them.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

1 day ago

Portraits Of An American Metal Festival

At Maryland Deathfest, a community of decibel-shattering catharsis thrives and headbangs. Lars Gotrich met attendees to ask metalheads really basic questions about why they love metal, how they got i...

1 day ago

Russell Malone Trio On JazzSet

The guitarists uptempo tunes swing and his ballads melt at the Kennedy Center.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

1 day ago

Latin Roots: The Underground Beat Of Reggaeton

Jasmine Garsd joins David Dye to discuss Reggaetons eclectic mix of salsa, hip-hop and reggae.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

1 day ago

Alfred Deller: Celebrating A High-Flying Singer

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of a singer who nearly single-handedly revived a voice type.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

1 day ago

Chely Wright: From Nashville Star To Outcast Activist

As a child, country music singer Chely Wright prayed to God to take away her homosexuality. She moved to Nashville to pursue a music career, and became a star. A new documentary, Wish Me Away, follow...

1 day ago

Hear And Download A New Dan Deacon Song

Hear and download a new song from the beautifully frenetic electronic pop oddball from his upcoming album America.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

1 day ago

The Magnetic Fields Stephin Merritt On World Cafe

Hear the singer-songwriter play ukulele versions of songs from Love at the Bottom of the Sea.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

1 day ago

Watch Neil Youngs Americana Film

With the designer Shepherd Fairey, Young has created a short film to accompany his new album of classic American songs.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

1 day ago

Regina Spektor In Concert

The warmly eclectic singer-songwriter Regina Spektor played old favorites and introduced fans to highlights from her lovely new album, What We Saw From the Cheap Seats, in a concert, recorded live fr...

1 day ago

This Weeks Survey: Vote For The Albums Everyone Can Love

Is it possible to make a top ten list of albums everyone can agree on? Were at least going to try!» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

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Amber Rubarth On Mountain Stage

The chainsaw-carving apprentice-turned-songwriter brings her acclaimed solo work to Mountain Stage for the second time.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

1 day ago

Patrick Watson: Tiny Desk Concert

With a gifted backing band on hand to help flesh out three songs from Adventures in Your Own Backyard, Watson conducts a swirl of interlocking loveliness that still finds room for surprises, from a s...

1 day ago

Back To The Future: Six Songs That Travel In Time

This week on Alt.Latino, we spin songs that belong as much to decades past as to the present day and age: a Chilean nod to the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning, an ode to synth-heavy sci-fi soundtra...

1 day ago

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