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Even if you're not at Coachella this weekend, you can still break out the balloons.

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Watch The Coachella 2017 Live Webcast All Weekend Long

5:17pm April 14, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

The music festival will be live-streamed across three channels, with sets from Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead, Lady Gaga, Banks, Lorde, The xx, D.R.A.M., Future, Bon Iver and more.

"I was just happy to be alive growing up," GoldLink says. "I just didn't even know if I could make it, 'cause a lot of kids that I knew did not make it."

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GoldLink On Go-Go And Making The Best Of A Bittersweet History

4:57pm April 14, 2017

The D.C. rapper survived a rough upbringing and made it as a member of a hip-hop renaissance in and around the nation's capital. That, he says, is cause for both celebration and soul-searching.

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Mac Benford and the old-time music boom

2:00pm April 14, 2017

by Paul Brown

One outcome of the folk music boom of the 1950s and ‘60s was an increased interest in the music from which much pop and folk had sprung: old-time and bluegrass. While The Weavers, The Kingsto

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The J Geils Band celebrates the release of its single 'Centerfold' at the Uptown Theater in Chicago, Ill. on November 19, 1981.

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The J. Geils Band's Greatest Hit Illustrates A Strange, Transitional Moment In Pop

1:38pm April 14, 2017

by Jason Roth

The death this week of J. Geils Band co-founder and guitarist Jay Geils prompts a look back at the strange, between-worlds year of music in which the group cemented its legacy.

The cover to Chris Stapleton's upcoming album, From A Room: Volume 1.

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Hear Chris Stapleton's First Single From His Forthcoming Album

12:51pm April 14, 2017

by Ann Powers

"Broken Halos" is the first taste of From A Room: Volume 1.

Nnenna Freelon performs on this week's episode of Piano Jazz.

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Nnenna Freelon On Piano Jazz

12:02pm April 14, 2017

The internationally-hailed vocalist surprises host Marian McPartland with a lyric to her original tune "Threnody."

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Gracie and Rachel Remind Us That We Are 'Only A Child,' Waiting To Grow

11:06am April 14, 2017

by Bob Boilen

There's a terrific tension in the sound, an underpinning of mystery set against a baroque, but modern, pop foreground.

Orgone's new single, I Sold My Heart To The Junkman, comes out April 21.

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Songs We Love: Orgone, 'I Sold My Heart To The Junkman (Feat. Cyril Neville)'

10:51am April 14, 2017

by Rachel Horn

A Los Angeles funk band and a New Orleans icon transform a jazz ballad turned girl-group number into an irresistibly boogieable groove — on a soul label out of suburban Ohio. Yeah, sure.

Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie's new album, Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie, comes out June 9.

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Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham And Christine McVie Reunite For 'In My World'

10:38am April 14, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

The Buckingam-penned "In My World" is immediately familiar to anyone who's spent many nights pouring over the swift guitar work and swaying grooves of Rumours.

A still from Natalia Lafourcade's video for "Rocío De Todos Los Campos."

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Watch Natalia Lafourcade's Graceful Elegy, 'Rocío De Todos Los Campos'

10:34am April 14, 2017

by Julyssa Lopez

With poetic lyrics and stunning visuals, the singer-songwriter honors the life of her late friend, the Mexican modern dancer Rocío Sagaón, in a new video.