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The Canadian troubadour may have just released his 33rd record, but his lyrics have the urgent feel of a passionate artist just starting out. He stops by World Cafe for an interview and performance.

Hart, who wrote songs like "Turn on the News" for the influential Minneapolis band and went on to become a fixture of the city after the band's dissolution, battled cancer publicly for many years.

Drummer Grant Hart co-founded one of the most influential punk bands of all time: Hüsker Dü. Hart played drums and wrote many of the trio's songs. He died of complications from liver cancer and hepatitis C Thursday night at the age of 56.

You never stop being a punk, even when you start making pop music. Chela's new single is a complex and desperate dance inward, and keeps us wanting more.

Stream the iconic Canadian collective's new album in its entirety.

Inspired by the death of Eric Garner, the jazz singer asks an essential question in the spacious track, featuring trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: "What is needed for the change to come?"

Chelsea Wolfe's music has always acted as emotional expulsion. If 2015's Abyss dipped into metallic waters, then Hiss Spun is her dark baptism.

Ritter's ninth album rose out of a prolific songwriting binge, and it shows in the breadth of sounds and stories on display.

The Toronto rock band's third album is an exorcism of nervous energy at a time when it's direly needed.