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New U.S. regulations aimed at travelers coming from eight majority-Muslim countries on non-U.S. airline carriers stipulate that laptops and electronic devices must be put into checked luggage.

Trump's Electronics Restrictions Could Cause Headaches For Touring Musicians

2:23pm March 21, 2017

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Cities like Dubai, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi and Casablanca have become popular touring destinations for prominent artists. What effect might the new baggage restrictions have on their work?

Clockwise from top left: The Crane Wives, ZenSoFly, Fernandito Ferrer, Diana Gameros, Jesus Chris + The Beetles and Haley Heynderickx.

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10 More Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Loved

2:18pm March 21, 2017

There is only one Tiny Desk Contest winner, but there were so many incredible musicians who entered this year. Here are 10 we loved.

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Hear Emo Torchbearer Football, etc.'s Meditation On A Turbulent Relationship, 'Save'

1:00pm March 21, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

It's spring! A time for renewal and flowers and sunshine and... sadness, if Football, etc. has anything to do with it.

Perfume Genius' new album, No Shape, comes out May 5.

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Songs We Love: Perfume Genius, 'Slip Away'

11:57am March 21, 2017

by Laura Snapes

Defiance is exhausting. Mike Hadreas' cosmically expansive, baroque declaration of love also acts as a protest song, depicting his lover as a godlike being who sustains his spirit.

A still from The Physics House Band's "Calypso" video

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The Physics House Band's 'Calypso' Is A Mecha-Prog Warrior

11:00am March 21, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

Watch the Brighton trio channel titans of experimental rock — Yes, Rush and Battles — with this weirdly funky, all-zones-activated jam.

Thee Oh Sees performs live at the 2016 Pickathon festival.

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Thee Oh Sees, 'Withered Hand' (Live)

11:00am March 21, 2017

by Jerad Walker

The Bay Area band embraced the excesses of rock 'n' roll in its performance at last summer's Pickathon festival just outside Portland, Ore.

Sampha performs a Tiny Desk Concert on Feb. 7, 2017. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

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Sampha: Tiny Desk Concert

9:00am March 21, 2017

by Bobby Carter

A Tiny Desk Concert as intimate as it gets (that's saying something). Just Sampha, a piano and three heart-wrenching songs that seem to double as coping mechanisms.

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The Chaotic Ecstasy Of SXSW In 50 Photos

6:20pm March 20, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

See the best photos from the music festival, featuring Diet Cig, Lizzo, Moor Mother, Weezer and The Revolution's Prince tribute.

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Chuck Berry Immortalized On Voyager Space Mission

4:39pm March 20, 2017

In 1977, a recording of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" was included on a golden disc sent to space with the Voyager mission. The mission continues today.

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Y La Bamba's Luz Elena Mendoza and Nina Diaz perform during SXSW.

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South X Lullaby: Nina Diaz & Y La Bamba's Luz Elena Mendoza

3:50pm March 20, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

In a church courtyard, Mendoza's yodel swirls in Diaz's gritty croon as the two songwriters perform together, on each other's songs, for the first time.