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OK Go reflects on 20 years in the churn of video virality
Damian Kulash of OK Go reflects on the band's decades of creating elaborate one-take viral music videos.
More than a decade later, OK Go is back with a new album
The new album from OK Go, called And The Adjacent Possible, is the band's first in more than a decade.
With 'Luther,' Kendrick Lamar stakes his claim as a great hip-hop ballad singer
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.
Illuminati Hotties: Tiny Desk Concert
The "tenderpunk" band brings its silly, sophisticated and scrappy songs to the Tiny Desk — along with a confetti cannon.
Jeff Bridges' new album is a hazy glimpse of his musical adventures in the late 1970s
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."
On 'SABLE, fABLE,' Bon Iver embraces fresh possibilities
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
On her seventh studio album, Van Etten opens up her songwriting process to dazzling effect.
Yu Sakai feat. TBN Trio: Tiny Desk Concert
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.
Jillian Lauren: What we know about police shooting of Weezer bassist's wife
Jillian Lauren suffered a non-life-threatening injury this week when police shot her in her yard after they say she pointed a gun at them. Details about the incident in Los Angeles are still emerging.