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Watch Superorganism Perform 'Something For Your M.I.N.D.' At A Mini-Golf Course

12:00pm March 23, 2018

by Dane Walters

In between sets at SXSW, including our showcase at Stubb's BBQ, Superorganism stopped by Peter Pan Mini-Golf in Austin to perform their found-sound heavy hit.

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Watch Kansas City's Hembree Layer Up An All-Out Jam

11:59am March 23, 2018

by David Christensen

The relatively new band, selected for our Slingshot program, knows how to start small and end big. "Had It All" takes a looping pop riff and ramps it up to an all-out rock jam.

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Earma Thompson On Piano Jazz

10:46am March 23, 2018

She was a mainstay on the Chicago jazz scene for over 50 years before releasing an album as a bandleader herself. On this 2005 episode of Piano Jazz, the pianist performs tracks off Just In Time.

This week's episode of Jazz Night In America features music by Maqueque

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Jane Bunnett And Maqueque: The New Queens of Afro-Cuban Jazz

10:09am March 23, 2018

by Alex Ariff

Canadian saxophonist and flutist Jane Bunnett has dedicated her life to Cuban music. Her latest project is Maqueque, an all-female band of young Cuban artists blending folkloric grooves and jazz.

Jack White's Boarding House Reach is out today on Third Man.

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New Music Friday: March 23

10:08am March 23, 2018

All Songs Considered's Robin Hilton talks with NPR Music's Lars Gotrich, Ann Powers and Stephen Thompson about the essential albums out on March 23.

Claude Debussy, photographed ca. 1908. He died 100 years ago on March 25, 1918.

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Songs We Love: Debussy, 'La Plus Que Lente'

9:08am March 23, 2018

by Tom Huizenga

Marking the 100th anniversary of the visionary composer's death, hear Debussy play his own music on a 1913 piano roll.

Trixie Mattel attends the RuPaul's Drag Race finale on May 19, 2015 in Los Angeles. In the years since, Mattel has released two albums, brought a YouTube show into the Vice fold and won RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season three.

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Trixie Mattel: America's Next Top Folk-Country Comedy Drag Artist

7:01am March 23, 2018

by Marissa Lorusso

Part of an emerging legacy in drag spurred on by the mainstream success of RuPaul's Drag Race, Mattel has built a career as a comedy queen and folk singer with two albums and a TV show to her name.

VÄSEN performs a Tiny Desk Concert on March 5, 2018 (Eslah Attar/NPR).

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Väsen: Tiny Desk Concert

5:00am March 23, 2018

by Bob Boilen

The Swedish trio brought a 30-string sonic blast to the Tiny Desk, performing on 12-string guitar, vioala and the nyckelharpa (a fiddle with keys — think 15th century keytar).

Nailah Blackman performs onstage during SXSW 2018.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: Musical Discoveries From SXSW 2018

5:00am March 23, 2018

by Stephen Thompson

Rodney Carmichael, Katie Presley and Stephen Thompson join host Linda Holmes to effuse over some of the festival's highlights.

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Molly Tuttle On Mountain Stage

4:11pm March 22, 2018

Tuttle was the first woman to earn the title of Guitarist of the Year from the International Bluegrass Music Association. Hear her perform on this Mountain Stage episode.