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Kacey Musgraves' new album is titled Same Trailer Different Park.

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Kacey Musgraves, Country Music's New 'Golden' Girl

10:32am March 17, 2013

by NPR Staff

Hailing from the tiny Texas town of Golden, the 24-year-old singer is disarmingly nimble with words. She's already made a splash writing songs for NBC's Nashville; her major label debut, Same Trailer Different Park, is out next week.

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Twin Horns Of Joy? Members of the band The Bottom Dollars play on the street in Austin, Texas, during the opening night of the South by Southwest music festival.

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Baby Bands, Pop Stars And Room-Filling Joy: What To Expect At SXSW 2013

9:55am March 16, 2013

by Stephen Thompson

The Austin, Texas-based festival is basically the only one in the country where every fan who attends can create his or her own perfect experience.

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Charles Lloyd, 75, continues to tour widely.

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The 'Singing Sound' Of Saxophonist Charles Lloyd

8:31pm March 15, 2013

by Walter Ray Watson

Lloyd led a jazz quartet into The Fillmore, San Francisco's legendary rock venue, in the 1960s. He backed Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King and hit the road with The Beach Boys. The charismatic musician is 75 this week.

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Visual art has long been one of Taussig's many side pursuits. This piece, "The Fool," is part of a series of collage-based reinterpretations of tarot cards.

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At South By Southwest, A 71-Year-Old Guitarist Makes A Belated Debut

12:42pm March 15, 2013

by Alex Cohen

On an album released nearly 50 years ago Harry Taussig demonstrated an accomplished, self-taught style of improvisational guitar. This week in Austin, Texas Taussig will perform in public for the first time.

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R&B singers Nicole Wray and Terri Walker have teamed up as the duo Lady.

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Lady: Two Soul Stalwarts Find A New Groove Together

8:59am March 15, 2013

by Oliver Wang

R&B singers Nicole Wray and Terri Walker both had promising starts to their careers more than a decade ago, but neither became a household name. Now they've teamed up and traded in slick, hip-hop influenced styles for a decidedly throwback feel.

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Toro y Moi's latest album is titled Anything in Return.

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Toro Y Moi: A Pioneer Of 'Chillwave' On California's Complications

9:48pm March 14, 2013

by NPR Staff

For electro-pop artist Toro y Moi, change is hard — but not necessarily uncomfortable.

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Before ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons (second from right) was in the more psychedelic Moving Sidewalks.

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The Moving Sidewalks: Where The British Invasion Met Texas Blues

2:22pm March 13, 2013

by Ed Ward

Before he became the guitarist for ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons was in a band called the Moving Sidewalks that just missed its shot at stardom. The album the Moving Sidewalks never released in the late 1960s was released in late 2012 and is very much a period piece, albeit a very well-made one.

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Composer and producer Adrian Younge has produced two new albums: one with William Hart of The Delfonics and another with rapper Ghostface Killah.

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Adrian Younge: Looking Back To Move Hip-Hop Forward

5:13pm March 12, 2013

Spaghetti Westerns, Philadelphia soul, opera and the Wu-Tang Clan all come together in the music of Adrian Younge. He has produced and composed two new albums — one with William Hart, the lead singer of The Delfonics, and another with rapper Ghostface Killah.

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Twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin have been writing songs since they were 15 and independently released their first full-length album in 1999. Since then, they've produced seven studio albums.

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Tegan And Sara Reach Out To New Audiences With 'Heartthrob'

6:06pm March 11, 2013

by Ken Tucker

The twin sisters from Canada depart from their indie singer-songwriter roots with their latest album. The music on Heartthrob is often loaded with a carefully articulated sense of doubt that Tegan and Sara suggest needs to be shaken off through a triumph of the pop-music will.

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Adam Kantor and Betsy Woolfe star in the current off-Broadway revival of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years.

'The Last Five Years' Returns To New York

5:01pm March 10, 2013

by NPR Staff

A cult-favorite musical, The Last Five Years is a semi-autobiographical look at one couple's failed marriage. A revival hits off-Broadway this week, and the show's creator Jason Robert Brown joins host Jacki Lyden to talk about the last 11 years of the little show that could.

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