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Three wildly different artists crack the top 10 for the first time

3:17pm April 15, 2025

Surprises nevertheless abound in the top 10, as a vinyl reissue lands cult singer-songwriter Ethel Cain on the Billboard 200 for the first time ever and two artists — Alex Warren and BigXthaPlug — experience their first-ever top 10 singles.

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Here are the songs World Cafe's spinning this week

2:17pm April 15, 2025

Stream the official World Cafe playlist.

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OK Go reflects on 20 years in the churn of video virality

5:22pm April 14, 2025

by Noah Caldwell

Damian Kulash of OK Go reflects on the band's decades of creating elaborate one-take viral music videos.

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More than a decade later, OK Go is back with a new album

5:16pm April 14, 2025

by Noah Caldwell

The new album from OK Go, called And The Adjacent Possible, is the band's first in more than a decade.

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With 'Luther,' Kendrick Lamar stakes his claim as a great hip-hop ballad singer

3:14pm April 14, 2025

by Ken Tucker

Lamar's duet with SZA samples Luther Vandross' 1982 hit "If This World Were Mine." The song was written by Marvin Gaye, who himself recorded it in 1967 as a duet with Tammi Terrell.

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Illuminati Hotties: Tiny Desk Concert

5:00am April 14, 2025

The "tenderpunk" band brings its silly, sophisticated and scrappy songs to the Tiny Desk — along with a confetti cannon.

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Jeff Bridges' new album is a hazy glimpse of his musical adventures in the late 1970s

4:29pm April 11, 2025

by Ailsa Chang

In the late 1970s, the actor Jeff Bridges and a band of his old high school friends recorded a hazy mix of tunes. Nearly 50 years later, he has released them on his new album "Slow Magic: 1977-1978."

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On 'SABLE, fABLE,' Bon Iver embraces fresh possibilities

2:58pm April 11, 2025

Bon Iver's new album, SABLE, fABLE, explores a world of new possibilities for the artist, and in the accumulation of hardships and opportunities that got him to this fresh start.

Becoming The Attachment Theory was a 'sonic trust fall' for Sharon Van Etten

12:00pm April 11, 2025

On her seventh studio album, Van Etten opens up her songwriting process to dazzling effect.

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Yu Sakai feat. TBN Trio: Tiny Desk Concert

5:00am April 11, 2025

While in Tokyo, we happened across this energetic band featuring the unique vocals of Yu Sakai, so we had to bring them to Tiny Desk.