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Courtney Barnett at Newport Folk Festival 2018.

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Courtney Barnett, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2018

7:00am December 20, 2018

by Lyndsey McKenna

There's electricity in the atmosphere at Newport Folk Festival as evening begins. As the penultimate performer on the main stage, Courtney Barnett's return to Newport felt like cause for celebration.

Some of the albums featured on World Cafe's Best of 2018 Playlist.

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World Cafe's Best Music Of 2018 Playlist

6:01am December 20, 2018

by Stephen Kallao

Enjoy listening to this mix of World Cafe's favorite sounds of the year, picked by the show's entire staff.

Charles Bradley performs during FYF Fest 2016 in Los Angeles. The soul singer's posthumous album, Black Velvet, is out now.

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On Charles Bradley: Sweaty Hugs And Screams 'From The Center Of The Earth'

6:42pm December 19, 2018

by Noah Caldwell

After soul singer Charles Bradley died last year, Tom Brenneck, Bradley's close friend and guitar player, put together a posthumous album of Bradley's rare, unreleased music.

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Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra perform new arrangements of holiday classics in New York City.

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The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Performs Big Band Holiday Classics

3:34pm December 19, 2018

New arrangements, old Yuletide classics. Watch the annual Jazz at Lincoln Center Big Band Holidays concert live on Wed., December 19th at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Audible Theater presents Patti Smith: Words and Music.

Patti Smith On Art, Music And Relationships

3:22pm December 19, 2018

We'll hear about her long, storied career and her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe.

In 2018, Prince's estate released a recording from the artist's fabled vault called Piano & A Microphone 1983.

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The Best Reissues Of 2018

3:02pm December 19, 2018

by Tom Moon

This year, fueled by the vinyl resurgence and recent deaths of major stars, the field of archival music percolated with releases of music both well-known and relatively unknown.

Kirby Brown says we place too much pressure on Christmas to embody "all of this expectation and hope."

A Musical Lament For Those Who Don't Feel The Magic Of Christmas

2:14pm December 19, 2018

by Bradley Campbell

It's not fair that Christmas "becomes this embodiment where we as a people project all of this expectation and hope on this one day," says songwriter Kirby Brown. So he wrote a song about it.

Tracey Thorn's album Record tops Ken Tucker's list of the best music of 2018.

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Ken Tucker Picks His Favorite Albums Of 2018

1:49pm December 19, 2018

by Ken Tucker

The range of female artists was remarkable in 2018, extending from Courtney Barnett's brooding Tell Me How You Really Feel to Cardi B's hip-hop styling on Invasion of Privacy.

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This week's episode of The Thistle & Shamrock features music by Pierre Bensusan.

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The Thistle & Shamrock: Gifts

11:57am December 19, 2018

Take some time over the holidays to allow the spirit of the season to wash over you with artists Cherish the Ladies, Ye Vagabonds and Pierre Bensusan.

This week's playlist features music by Bad Bunny.

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Las Luces: Our Favorite Latin Songs This Week

11:53am December 19, 2018

This week's playlist features everything from Afro-Caribbean beats from ÌFÉ to Anuel AA & Haze's Latin trap to a statement against domestic violence from Bad Bunny.