Hear Stephin Merritt, Katie Crutchfield Sing On Superchunk's 'Erasure'
When you've got nearly 30 years of bombastic power-punk behind you, it's fairly easy to convince people to join you in a sing-along.
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Songs We Love: Soccer Mommy, 'Your Dog'
The first single from Sophie Allison's forthcoming album Clean is both a post-breakup kiss-off and an anthem demanding respect and agency.
Hear 'All Nerve,' From The Breeders' First New Album In 10 Years
All Nerve, out March 2, brings together a Breeders lineup that hadn't recorded together since the band's 1993 classic Last Splash.
Car Seat Headrest's 'Twin Fantasy' Is A 'New' Album Viewed Through Rearview Mirrors
Car Seat Headrest remakes and reimagines the 2011 album 'Twin Fantasy' in ways not possible when it was recorded in 2011. Hear the maturation, and see Will Toledo's directorial debut.
In A Dystopic New Video, Son Lux Examines Truth And An Unsettling Future
"Slowly," the latest single from Son Lux's upcoming album Brighter Wounds, takes an unnerving look at life in the age of alternative facts and fake news.
Meet The 2017 Slingshot Artists
In 2017, public radio stations highlighted indie rock band Big Thief, singer and poet Jamila Woods and pop trio Lo Moon.
Hear An Unreleased Shirley Collins Song From A New Documentary
The British folk singer is the subject of The Ballad Of Shirley Collins. Hear a 1958 BBC recording of "Wondrous Love."
About Slingshot, Public Radio's Emerging Artist Spotlight
Public radio music stations have always broken new bands, but never quite like this.
Songs We Love: Latin Bitman ft. Nora Norman, 'You'
A new single from the Chilean DJ, producer and former Olympic surfer José Antonio Bravo, aka Latin Bitman, draws inspiration from the thrill of riding waves.
'Dock Of The Bay' At 50: Why Otis Redding's Biggest Hit Almost Went Unheard
Released less than a month after the singer's death at 26, the posthumous smash became Redding's signature song. But it came close to not being released at all.