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Caroline Polachek's new album, Desire, I Want To Turn Into You, comes at a particularly breathless point in the adventurous pop songwriter's career.

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Caroline Polachek ponders 'Desire' at pop's outer limits

4:57pm February 14, 2023

by Sophie Kemp

Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is a natural next step in the adventurous songwriter's series of evolutions, one that embraces ridiculousness and beckons pop toward a rigorous, maximalist sound.

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Kelela, 'Raven'

4:03pm February 14, 2023

by Pilar Galvan

The title track of the artist's sophomore studio LP is a gloomy but cathartic meditation on finding clarity after heartbreak.

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crushed, 'waterlily'

2:51pm February 14, 2023

by Reanna Cruz

The shoegaze-y duo crushed makes music for lost loves that have begun to fade in your memory.

Frank Ocean performs at Terminal 5 on July 26, 2012, in New York City.

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Flying solo this Valentine's Day? This playlist's for you.

12:09pm February 14, 2023

by Miguel Perez

For Valentine's Day this year, World Cafe is embracing the single life with a cathartic mix of songs about everything but gushy, romantic love.

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Babyface Ray (feat. 42 Dugg), 'Ron Artest'

9:33am February 14, 2023

by Hassan Burke

Babyface Ray has a similar bravado to the basketball player: He channels aggression like the 2004 Pacers-Pistons brawl, but he also displays passion.

Mark O'Connor celebrates 50 years as a musician with a new memoir

5:09am February 14, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with musician Mark O'Connor about his memoir, Crossing Bridges, that recounts his journey from multi-instrumentalist child prodigy to world class fiddler.

Remembering De La Soul's Trugoy the Dove has died at 54

6:31pm February 13, 2023

by Elizabeth Blair

Trugoy the Dove, one-third of the iconic hip-hop group De La Soul, has died. He was 54 years old.

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Steven Van Zandt steps up Jamie Raskin's 'chemo head-cover fashion' with bandana gift

6:26pm February 13, 2023

by Sarah Handel

E Street guitarist Stevie Van Zandt gifted Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin one of his signature bandanas. The congressman thanked him on Twitter for the "step up in [his] chemo head-cover fashions."

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Russian-born violinist Nataly Merezhuk's new album 'Jazz on Bones' explores the history of jazz in the former Soviet Union.

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Violinist's album honors the underground effort to keep jazz alive after Stalin's ban

3:14pm February 13, 2023

Russian-born violinist Nataly Merezhuk explores the history of jazz in the former Soviet Union in her new album: Jazz on Bones.

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Fresh Air pays tribute to legendary composer Burt Bacharach

1:26pm February 13, 2023

by Terry Gross

Bacharach, who died Feb. 8, wrote hits in the '60s and early '70s with longtime collaborator Hal David. We listen to a 2010 interview with them, and a '98 interview with Bacharach and Elvis Costello.

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