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Deafheaven's Ordinary Corrupt Human Love comes out July 13.

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First Listen: Deafheaven, 'Ordinary Corrupt Human Love'

6:45am July 05, 2018

by Grayson Haver Currin

On Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, the band's first album in three years, Deafheaven leans more fully than ever before into elements that inspire alternate outrage and obsession.

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First Listen: Luluc, 'Sculptor'

5:00am July 05, 2018

by Stephen Thompson

The Australian folk duo's follow-up to 2014's wonderful Passerby broadens Luluc's palette and subject matter in rewarding ways.

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The Name Behind This Year's Most Popular Album? P.T. Barnum

5:42pm July 04, 2018

by Ailsa Chang

The soundtrack to the movie The Greatest Showman is outselling Kanye West, Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake this year. Critic Rob Harvilla reviewed the album for The Ringer and explains its success.

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New Songs That Will Make You Want To Crank The Volume

5:33pm July 04, 2018

by Ken Tucker

Rock critic Ken Tucker listens to new songs by My Morning Jacket's Jim James, the Danish band Iceage and George Clinton and Parliament. As each song shows, "there's an art to summoning up chaos."

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Two men pleaded no contest Tuesday to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter in the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, Calif.

Men Charged In Deadly Calif. Ghost Ship Warehouse Fire Plead No Contest

2:06pm July 04, 2018

by Amy Held

Derick Almena and Max Harris pleaded no contest to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with their roles in the 2016 blaze that left three dozen people dead.

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'Fresh Air' Celebrates July 4 With The Late Flat-Picking Guitar Player Doc Watson

1:29pm July 04, 2018

by Terry Gross

Watson, who died in 2012, was a pioneering bluegrass, country and folk guitarist and singer who changed the way people thought about mountain music. Originally broadcast in 1988 and 1989.

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Officers of the 5th U.S. Cavalry near Washington, D.C., in 1865. Julia Ward Howe was inspired to write "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" after a visit with Union troops in the thick of the Civil War.

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One Song Glory

12:10pm July 04, 2018

by Andrew Limbong

The refrain — "Glory, glory, hallelujah" — shows up at labor protests, conservative rallies, church services and football games. It turns out the song, originally a war march, is flexible by design.

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