Music & Culture

Music & Culture

Harmonies To Fall For: All Our Exes Live In Texas

10:11am February 07, 2017

by Bob Boilen

These four fabulous singers are from Australia, contrary to their name — All Our Exes Live In Texas. It's a wink at a George Strait song, but this is a band with their own country flair.

Charly Bliss' debut album, Guppy, comes out April 21.

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Songs We Love: Charly Bliss, 'Glitter'

10:00am February 07, 2017

by Maria Sherman

The band excels at crafting impossibly memorable pop songs, and it does so here with a capital P.

In 'Universal Harvester,' Mountain Goats Lyricist Reaps A Creepy Crop

8:47am February 07, 2017

by NPR Staff

John Darnielle used some tricks of the horror trade to write his latest novel, which is set in 1990s Iowa and involves some cornfields. What's scary about cornfields? Mostly, the unknown.

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Lady Gaga during her performance at halftime of Super Bowl LI in Houston, Texas.

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Should Anyone Expect Pop Stars To Lead The Resistance?

7:21pm February 06, 2017

by Ann Powers

Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime performance was possibly progressive, definitely patriotic and ultimately open-ended. Gaga played to the masses, and left the messages mixed.

LP outside the World Cafe studio at WXPN in Philadelphia.

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LP On World Cafe

4:56pm February 06, 2017

by David Dye

She's written songs for Christina Aguilera and the Backstreet Boys, but now LP's work as a solo artist is finally getting heard. Watch her perform "Lost On You."

A still from Chance The Rapper's "Same Drugs" video.

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Puppets Join Chance The Rapper In 'Same Drugs' Video

4:50pm February 06, 2017

The wistfully nostalgic cut from Coloring Book gets a wistfully nostalgic video, featuring Chance The Rapper at the grand piano with a few furry friends.

Syrian singer Omar Souleyman (performing here in Malmö, Sweden, in August 2016) is among the musicians whose performances in the U.S. have been left in limbo.

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Even With Travel Ban Blocked, Artists Are Still Left Hanging

4:33pm February 06, 2017

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Musicians form an important cultural conduit between the U.S. and the seven countries included in the ban. Despite judicial stays upheld on appeal, artists still can't hit the road.

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