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Members of Edelweiss and "entourage" at New York's Unique Studios, 1986 — Top row, from left: Walter Werzowa (Edelweiss), Dennis (recording engineer), singer Mercedes Hall; Bottom row, from left: rappers Cooly C and Raf, Martin Biedermeier; Seated: Matt

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The KLF's Greatest Protégés Didn't Really Know What Was Going On

10:58am July 20, 2017

by Jason Roth

The KLF — Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty — were, and remain, unparalleled masters of both music and manipulation. The Austrians they inspired, however, are... a different story.

Pardoner's Uncontrollable Salvation comes out Sept. 8.

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Pardoner's 'Uncontrollable Salvation' Is A Punk Blessing That Bludgeons

10:57am July 20, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

The San Francisco band's debut album is a muscle spasm of Polvo's weirdo heft and Dinosaur Jr.'s slacker fuzz set to a disaffected punk squall.

The Isley Brothers & Carlos Santana's Power Of Peace comes out July 28.

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Songs We Love: The Isley Brothers & Carlos Santana, 'Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)'

10:53am July 20, 2017

by Felix Contreras

As Santana turns 70, he's still spreading the message that music has the power to heal. With The Isley Brothers, he taps into the peaceful spirit of Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)."

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Seratones On Mountain Stage

7:00am July 20, 2017

The psych-soul-rock hell-raisers from Shreveport, La., make their Mountain Stage debut.

Vic Mensa's new album, The Autobiography, is out July 28.

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First Listen: Vic Mensa, 'The Autobiography'

5:00am July 20, 2017

by Rodney Carmichael

On his long-awaited major-label LP, the Chicago MC's personal pain becomes epiphany.

Elvis Presley's Complete 1953-1995 Recordings, A Boy From Tupelo is out July 28.

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First Listen: Elvis Presley, 'A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings'

5:00am July 20, 2017

by Tom Moon

Stream a collection of rare early recordings, including a never-before released version of "I Forgot To Remember To Forget."

Hip-Hop Radio DJs Stretch And Bobbito Return To The Airwaves With NPR Podcast

11:09pm July 19, 2017

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to New York hip-hop radio DJs Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia about their upcoming NPR podcast called "What's Good with Stretch and Bobbito."

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Jon Batiste Fashions A Soulful New 'Battle Hymn' For The Atlantic

4:33pm July 19, 2017

by Nate Chinen

The Late Show bandleader explains how he made a quintessential American anthem forged in national divisions new and how it speaks to the strength and diversity of our own society.

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Alt.Latino's Midsummer New Music Roundup

3:48pm July 19, 2017

by Felix Contreras

Beat the heat with this sampler of new tunes, including everything from rock to Latin jazz to electronic to cumbia and flamenco.

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Billy Bragg says he initially pursued songwriting as a way to escape working in the local car factory.

Billy Bragg On Skiffle, The Movement That Brought Guitar To British Radio

3:29pm July 19, 2017

by Terry Gross

The singer describes skiffle as "a bunch of British school boys in the mid '50s playing Lead Belly's repertoire ... on acoustic guitars." Bragg's new book is Roots, Radicals And Rockers.

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