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Mac DeMarco talks with NPR about how his relationship with his father influenced the music on his last album, This Old Dog.

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This Old Dog: Mac DeMarco On Growing Up And Getting Personal

8:11pm March 11, 2018

by Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi

Musician Mac DeMarco has garnered the image of an impish pop-rock troubadour, but many of the songs on last year's This Old Dog tackle his conflicted relationship with the father he never knew.

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The Breeders' All Nerve — the band's fifth album, and first in 10 years — is out now.

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The Breeders Are 'All Nerve' After A Long Hiatus

10:15am March 11, 2018

It's been 25 years since the lineup that made 1993's seminal Last Splash recorded together. The band's fifth album, All Nerve, is a triumphant reflection on a difficult past.

India.Arie, performing onstage during the pre-telecast Grammy Awards ceremony in New York City in January 2018.

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All Songs +1: India.Arie Talks About Worth And The Grammys

5:00am March 11, 2018

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The Grammy Awards have been roiled by controversy regarding how women in the industry are valued — or not. The singer-songwriter talks about the open letter she wrote to the Recording Academy.

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Vince Staples released "GTFOMD" after a masterful marketing rollout presented in the form of a GoFundMe campaign.

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In Promising To Go Away, Vince Staples Reveals Another Strong Play To Stay

12:04pm March 10, 2018

by Rodney Carmichael

The Long Beach rapper calls out NPR, and the media in general, in a new song that finally combines his online persona with his singular artistic temperament.

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Jaime Wyatt On Her 'Felony Blues'

8:08am March 10, 2018

A new country artist on the scene bares her hardscrabble life of drug problems and jail time in an autobiographical album, Felony Blues. Jaime Wyatt talks with NPR's Don Gonyea.

At just 20 years old, Jade Bird sounds like a seasoned Nashville veteran.

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From 'Slingshot' To SXSW: Public Radio Favorites Head To Austin

8:08am March 10, 2018

Musicians from NPR's public radio artist incubator series Slingshot are making their way to SXSW this year. Keep an eye out in Austin for these three Slingshot artists.

Why The Revival Of 'American Idol' Might Just Work

4:20pm March 09, 2018

by Eric Deggans

ABC will revive Fox's onetime blockbuster music competition American Idol on Sunday. NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans says the first episode reveals lots of reasons why the reboot was probably a bad idea — including a tarnished host in Ryan Seacrest. But there are also a couple of surprising arguments for why it just might work.

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Across the Blue Ridge #116 - Train Songs, The Jones House Community Center, and Love Songs

4:16pm March 09, 2018

by Paul Brown

The Jones House Community Center in Boone, NC is the latest stop on our Blue Ridge Music Trails series.

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Demi Lovato and DJ Khaled appear at The Grove in Los Angeles in Nov. 2017.

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A Look At The Very, Very Earnest Soundtrack To 'A Wrinkle In Time'

3:51pm March 09, 2018

The soundtrack to Disney's newest blockbuster bildungsroman matches the bright-eyed whimsy of the film — maybe a little too much.

Greg Sestero, left, and Tommy Wiseau, co-stars of The Room. Sestero has directed a new, two-volume film, Best F(r)iends, that co-stars Wiseau.

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A Tale Of Friendship And Luck (But Not Pecs), Propelled By 'The Room'

2:56pm March 09, 2018

by Beca Grimm

For the Kyoto-based, Alabama-born duo of Nice Legs, its band name was more than just an homage to The Room -- it was an homage to friendship that ended up yielding a sorta-lucky break.