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Foundation In Austin, Texas, Subsidizes Mental Health Care For Musicians

5:05pm January 05, 2016

by Wade Goodwyn

Musicians who are dealing with mental health and substance abuse problems in Austin, Texas, can get help from an organization there that provides reduced cost care --basically whatever the musicians can afford to pay-- from cooperating doctors and therapists.

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Paul Bley, Influential Jazz Pianist, Has Died

4:57pm January 05, 2016

Bley's long-standing commitment to thoughtful yet intuitive performance proved adaptable to many different settings for nearly seven decades. He was 83.

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Rapsody: Tiny Desk Concert

3:30pm January 05, 2016

by Bobby Carter

In 2015, the young rapper had her big moment. This year, she's seizing it. Watch Rapsody perform three songs from Beauty And The Beast, recorded live at the NPR Music offices.

Duke Dumont spins a guest DJ set on this week's Metropolis.

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Metropolis: 1/2/16

2:47pm January 05, 2016

KCRW's Jason Bentley spins a two-hour EDM mix for the new year, with a guest DJ set by Duke Dumont.

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Songs We Love: TEEN, 'Tokyo'

11:02am January 05, 2016

by Mike Katzif

The Brooklyn quartet's latest musical evolution culminates in a buoyant synth-pop song, that's also a tale of infidelity and agism.

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Natalia Lafourcade Explains The Roots Of 'Hasta La Raíz'

5:26pm January 04, 2016

The Mexican musician revisits the creation of the title track from her Grammy-winning album Hasta La Raíz. "I wanted to sing about something that would remind me of Mexico and home," she says.

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KEXP Presents: Hinds

5:06pm January 04, 2016

by Jim Beckmann

Carefree attitudes, slightly off-kilter harmonies, imperfect pronunciations, frequent signature changes, normcore attire and incurable grins buoy the jangly pop of the young Spanish band.

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Encore: A Tribe Called Quest Recalls Debut Album

4:19pm January 04, 2016

A Tribe Called Quest talk about the 25th anniversary remastered release of People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. This story originally aired on Nov. 13, 2015, on All Things Considered.

The cover of Jeff Buckley's forthcoming collection of demos, You And I.

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World Cafe's 2016 Preview

3:09pm January 04, 2016

The new year in music starts here, as NPR Music's Ann Powers recommends forthcoming releases from Jeff Buckley, Santigold, Wet and more.

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British Singer Ellie Goulding Strikes An Inventive Chord With 'Delirium'

2:35pm January 04, 2016

by Ken Tucker

The "Love Me Like You Do" singer created her new album as an experiment — to see if she could make a "big pop album." Reviewer Ken Tucker says Goulding's experimental effort was worth the risk.

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