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Kendrick Lamar Extends His Vocal And Emotional Range On 'DAMN.'

1:52pm April 27, 2017

by Ken Tucker

Emotions like lust and love serve as metaphors for social and political struggles on Lamar's new album. Critic Ken Tucker says the music on DAMN. signals the artist's bold refusal to back down.

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Jessi Colter's new album is called The Psalms.

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Jessi Colter On World Cafe

1:35pm April 27, 2017

by Talia Schlanger

The country singer tells stories of her wild ride with her husband of 30 years, Waylon Jennings. She was the only woman featured on his genre-defining 1976 album Wanted! The Outlaws.

Monsters chase after a young girl in a new video for the Fall Out Boy song "Young And Menace."

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Watch The Truly Bizarre Video For Fall Out Boy's New Song, 'Young And Menace'

1:25pm April 27, 2017

by Robin Hilton

The strange creatures that chase after a young girl in Fall Out Boy's new video, for the song "Young And Menace," are like demented versions of the beasts from Where the Wild Things Are.

"It's a reclaiming of female power as it relates to sexuality and knowledge of self," Francine Thirteen says of her new song "Lust Heals, Give Me My Sin Again."

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Songs We Love: Francine Thirteen, 'Lust Heals, Give Me My Sin Again'

1:00pm April 27, 2017

by Briana Younger

In a meditative take on the Bible's creation story, the self-described "ritual pop" singer seeks a feminine-based understanding of the divine — the hidden female face of God.

From Mountain Stage's archives, the original tape of Warren Zevon's 1991 performance.

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Warren Zevon On Mountain Stage

12:52pm April 27, 2017

From the Mountain Stage archives: a little-heard performance from the gifted singer-songwriter-rocker, recorded live in 1991.

Dee Dee Bridgewater performs at Jazz At Lincoln Center.

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Dee Dee Bridgewater: Fearless And Free

11:46am April 27, 2017

by Nate Chinen

In words as well as music, hear how seriously Bridgewater takes her role as a music mentor and how it connects to her own experience in the jazz lineage.

Chance The Rapper, onstage in Los Angeles on August 31, 2014.

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Chance The Rapper Cheekily Roasts The Major Labels Onstage

11:30am April 27, 2017

by Andrew Flanagan

The artist is lambasting the majors during his live show in a series of tongue-in-cheek puns.

Gorillaz latest album, Humanz, is out April 28.

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Gorillaz Are Human After All

11:03am April 27, 2017

by Barry Walters

The latest album from the dystopian cartoon band — whose lone consistent musical member is the British musician Damon Albarn — emphasizes real suffering and salvation in a contemporary setting.

Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels were the stars of Jonathan Demme's Something Wild, but Demme's use of The Feelies (left) felt just as important.

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Jonathan Demme's Musical Moments Made Sense

10:40am April 27, 2017

by Katherine Dieckmann

The director's gleeful fusion of song and subject matter provided a guide to how personal playlists could serve broader narratives.

"It's a responsibility being Mary J. Blige," the singer says.

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'I'm Not Going To Be Broken': Mary J. Blige On 'Strength Of A Woman'

10:11am April 27, 2017

"It's a responsibility being Mary J. Blige," the singer says. She speaks with NPR's Rachel Martin about finding catharsis through music — and says that even she works out to her songs.

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