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Can's The Singles will be released June 16.

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Can's Singles To Be Reissued: Hear The Goofy Novelty 'Turtles Have Short Legs'

12:57pm April 04, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

For all the band's sprawling and experimental rock albums, Can also had a healthy appetite for singles, which Mute Records will release in a compilation due June 16.

Jaime Wyatt's new album is called Felony Blues.

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Jaime Wyatt On World Cafe

12:36pm April 04, 2017

by Talia Schlanger

Wyatt discusses the firsthand experience with incarceration that informed her album Felony Blues. "People get stuck in the system," she says. "I feel like that's a great injustice to our society."

Mayte Garcia looks back on her relationship with Prince in a new book titled The Most Beautiful.

Mayte Garcia Knew She Would Marry Prince, But Could Never Have Predicted How

11:37am April 04, 2017

In her new book, The Most Beautiful, Garcia explains how an unlikely meeting at one of the pop icon's concerts sparked a relationship full of love, surprises and, ultimately, heartbreak.

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Oxbow's new album, Thin Black Duke, comes out May 5.

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Oxbow Marks Its Return With The Sweet, Snarling And Ambitious 'Other People'

11:00am April 04, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

Strings and horns are integral to Oxbow's dark, perverse, Baroque rock experimentalism.

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Lawrence English, Philosopher Of Sound, Kindly Requests You Lie Down

10:54am April 04, 2017

by Sasha Frere-Jones

Lawrence English considers it his job to document sound, to question the mechanics underpinning our ways of listening. It's not always simple.

Den-Mate's new EP, Entropii, comes out April 14.

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Songs We Love: Den-Mate, 'Fall'

10:03am April 04, 2017

by Marissa Lorusso

D.C. producer and songwriter Jules Hale zeroes in on the darker, denser side of her sound with a dream-pop salve for women, who she says "deserve to swim in euphoria for a bit."

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The 2017 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert

10:43pm April 03, 2017

by Nate Chinen

Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Dave Holland, Dick Hyman and Ira Gitler are recipients of the Jazz Masters award — the highest honor the U.S gives to a jazz musician or advocate.

The Indian vocalist Kishori Amonkar and tabla player Zakir Hussain posing at an awards ceremony in Mumbai, India in February 2016. Amonkar died on April 3, 2017 at age 84.

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Kishori Amonkar, Leading Indian Classical Vocalist, Dies At Age 84

5:28pm April 03, 2017

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

A musicians' musician who shunned the spotlight, Amonkar was a revered singer in the Hindustani (North Indian) tradition. According to Indian press reports, she died today after a brief illness.

Noname performs a Tiny Desk Concert on Feb. 28, 2017. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

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Noname: Tiny Desk Concert

4:05pm April 03, 2017

by Bobby Carter

The power of language to penetrate a difficult subject, and the power of performance to share that language, are the gifts Noname brought to the Tiny Desk.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, standing next to his poem 'Babi Yar' during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem in 2007.

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Confronting Anti-Semitism In Russia, In Words And Then Music

3:16pm April 03, 2017

After the death of Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko on April 1, we revisit a 2000 feature about his most famous work, 'Babi Yar,' and the collaboration it inspired with composer Dmitri Shostakovich.