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Viking's Choice: Marisa Anderson, 'He Is Without His Guns'

2:05pm April 13, 2016

by Lars Gotrich

Into The Light is an imaginary soundtrack for a science-fiction western. The guitarist's "He Is Without His Guns" conveys the urgency of a stand-off, but feels small in its somber movements.

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Songs We Love: Elizabeth Cook, 'Methadone Blues'

10:30am April 13, 2016

by Jewly Hight

The funky, down-home boogie comes from the beloved Nashville singer-songwriter's first album in six years. "I was so rusty I had to go to a craft store and make collages," Cook says.

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OG Maco: 'I Want To Give The World A Fighting Chance'

10:00am April 13, 2016

"I don't want anybody to do exactly what I'm doing," says the Atlanta rapper. "I want people to look at why I'm doing what I'm doing. And if you agree with that, you go do what you do about it."

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Flyers for Honey Soundsystem, Wrecked and Men's Room.

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Reclaiming The Queer Dance Floor

11:00pm April 12, 2016

by Shawn Reynaldo

A new crop of parties across the U.S.A. is reconnecting dance music with a particular chapter in its own vivid history.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's first book, Your Song Changed My Life, finds his favorite artists each locating a pivotal moment of inspiration.

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'What Song Changed Your Life?': Bob Boilen On How Musicians Become Themselves

5:48pm April 12, 2016

by NPR Staff

"I've been fascinated for a long time about what it is that inspires people to become what they are," says the host of NPR's All Songs Considered. His new book, out now, is Your Song Changed My Life.

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Nada Surf at the World Cafe performance studio.

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Nada Surf On World Cafe

4:32pm April 12, 2016

Hear the New York rock band perform songs from its new album, You Know Who You Are.

Leapling's Suspended Animation is out June 10 on Exploding In Sound Records.

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Songs We Love: Leapling, 'Hey Sister'

3:35pm April 12, 2016

by Mike Katzif

While the title of the Brooklyn trio's album Suspended Animation implies emotional stasis, it's actually the result of transition and change.

Tony Conrad had been a SUNY-Buffalo professor since 1976, but beyond his academic duties, he was open and free giving of his knowledge and wisdom.

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'You Couldn't Help But Be The Student': Remembering Tony Conrad

2:52pm April 12, 2016

by Lars Gotrich

David Grubbs, C. Spencer Yeh, Jennifer Walshe, Chris Forsyth and others pay tribute to the experimental composer and to his natural gifts as a mentor.

Josh Kelley's new album, New Lane Road, comes out April 22.

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First Listen: Josh Kelley, 'New Lane Road'

2:35pm April 12, 2016

by Jewly Hight

Kelley has spent years stocking his musical bag of tricks, and it shows: The singer's new album is an unfussy collection of soft rock, soul, adult pop and country.

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin are defendants in a copyright lawsuit that accuses their band of lifting music from the song "Taurus" by the Los Angeles band Spirit.

'Stairway To Heaven' Plagiarism Suit Heads To Trial

2:05pm April 12, 2016

by Bill Chappell

A lawsuit claims that Led Zeppelin perpetrated a "falsification of Rock n' Roll History." A federal judge dismissed that part of the plaintiff's case.

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