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Van Morrison performs "Transformation" at this years Americana Honors & Awards ceremony.

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Watch Van Morrison Perform At The Americana Honors & Awards

9:00am November 16, 2017

by Bruce Warren

In introducing the winner of a lifetime achievement award for songwriting, ceremony host Jim Lauderdale called Morrison a "brilliant artist who has deeply moved and influenced a generation."

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Cut Copy, 'Black Rainbows' (Live)

5:00am November 16, 2017

by Jason Bentley

Watch the Australian electro-pop gurus perform a standout track from their new album, Haiku from Zero.

The Miraculous Love Kids music school founder Lanny Cordola (top left) stands with Madina Mohammadi (top center), Mursal (top right) and other students outside their rehearsal space in Kabul. Their favorite song is "Fragile" by Sting. "What we're trying t

An American Rock Musician Teaches Guitar To Kabul's Street Kids

6:34pm November 15, 2017

by Peter Breslow

Lanny Cordola has played guitar with Guns N' Roses and the Beach Boys. Now he devotes himself to teaching music to Afghan street children, most of them girls. He also helps pay for their schooling.

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Meek Mill performs during V-103 Live Pop Up Concert at Philips Arena on March 25, 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia. The rapper was recently sentenced to return to prison for probation violations.

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Meek Mill's Sentencing Generates Protest, Calls For Probation And Parole Reform

3:24pm November 15, 2017

by Sidney Madden

Artists, activists and attorneys weigh in on the strange — yet not strange — case of the Philadelphia rapper.

Le Vent du Nord is one of the bands featured on this episode of The Thistle & Shamrock.

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The Thistle & Shamrock: Chansons

1:42pm November 15, 2017

From the sea shanties of Brittany to the songs of the voyageurs of the Canadian fur trade, enjoy French songs that extend branches of the Celtic music tree from the old world to the new.

Yung Lean's latest album, Stranger, is available now.

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Songs We Love: Yung Lean, 'Agony'

1:31pm November 15, 2017

by Steffanee Wang

A track from the rapper's latest album drags like slowly dripping syrup, as he introduces the listeners to nightmare apparitions only he can see.

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Lost Bayou Ramblers On World Cafe

12:50pm November 15, 2017

by Talia Schlanger

Torchbearers of Cajun and Creole music, the Southern Louisiana band brings the sounds of crickets and frogs and the first-ever triangle solo to the show.

Maggie and Tyler Heath, pictured as children, are poised to release four new EPs as The Oh Hellos.

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Song Premiere: The Oh Hellos, 'Torches'

12:43pm November 15, 2017

by Salvatore Maicki

Tyler and Maggie Heath face down a storm of "violent nationalism and tribalism" on their new single.

Loma's self-titled debut album comes out Feb. 16.

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Loma Emerges With A Dark, But Hopeful, Song And Video For 'Black Willow'

12:03pm November 15, 2017

by Andrew Flanagan

The collaboration paints with darker contours than anything on recent albums by Cross Record or Shearwater, while retaining the depth and confidence of each.

Vicente García has released a new video for "Bachata In Kingston," which is nominated for Best Tropical Song at the Latin Grammy Awards.

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A New Video From Best New Artist Nominee Vicente García

11:26am November 15, 2017

by Marisa Arbona-Ruiz

Just in time for the Latin Grammy Awards — where he's nominated four times — the Dominican singer-songwriter releases a clip for "Bachata In Kingston."