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Cale Tyson's debut album, Careless Soul, comes out July 14.

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Songs We Love: Cale Tyson, 'Somebody Save Me'

11:41am June 01, 2017

by Jewly Hight

Tyson was an emo kid who found a melancholic connection to country music, and made his debut LP in Muscle Shoals. This horn-accented tune suggests his muse is already leading him elsewhere.

The Beatles celebrate the completion of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at a press conference on May 19, 1967.

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Was 1967 The Greatest Year In Music?

11:21am June 01, 2017

by Bruce Warren

World Cafe celebrates 50 years of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with a playlist of some the most enduring and endearing music from the year it was released.

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Ivy Sole's 'Life' Reassures That Pain Is Temporary

11:09am June 01, 2017

by Rodney Carmichael

The first video from the rapper/singer's East EP is dedicated to a friend she lost while attending the University of Pennsylvania.

Conductor Jiří Bělohlávek, a leading interpreter of Czech music, has died at age 71.

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A Champion Of Czech Music, Conductor Jiří Bělohlávek, Dies At 71

10:23am June 01, 2017

by Tom Huizenga

The Prague native was a proud promoter of his country's musical heritage — from Antonín Dvořák to Bohuslav Martinů — with the world's top orchestras.

On August 18, Rainer Maria returns with S/T, its first album since 2006.

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Rainer Maria Returns With 'Lower Worlds,' From Its First Album Since 2006

10:00am June 01, 2017

by Stephen Thompson

On August 18, the band returns with S/T, an album that both sounds like Rainer Maria and reflects the far-flung journeys its members have taken individually.

Compositions by Maggie MacInnes are featured in this week's show.

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The Thistle & Shamrock: New Writing

9:29am June 01, 2017

From instrumental commissions to new works by singer-songwriters, hear a wealth of recently composed gems.

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The War On Drugs Announces New Album, Shares A Pulsing, Springsteen-Citing New Song

8:54am June 01, 2017

by Robin Hilton

The band channels '80s-era Bruce Springsteen on its latest song, with glockenspiel chimes set against gritty guitars and synths.

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Foo Fighters' New Song, 'Run,' Sparks A Nursing-Home Uprising

8:23am June 01, 2017

by Stephen Thompson

Clad in old-man makeup, Dave Grohl's band returns with a blistering new song — and a video in which the violent elderly are unleashed on an unwitting world.

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'Over There' At 100

7:41am June 01, 2017

The George M. Cohan song "Over There" was first published on June 1, 1917. It became America's favorite anthem of World World I and one of the country's great patriotic anthems.

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Roots-rock band The Black Lillies plays Mountain Stage for the third time.

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The Black Lillies On Mountain Stage

6:00am June 01, 2017

The Knoxville roots-rock band returns to Mountain Stage with its signature mix of country, Motown blues and Americana. Hear a live set recorded at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.