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"Basically, my life's the same as everybody else's," Phil Collins says. "You're making it up every day and you're just hoping you're making the right decisions."

In Phil Collins' New Memoir, Candid Reflections On Family And Fame

6:23pm November 01, 2016

by NPR Staff

Collins, whose sound has become musical shorthand for the '80s, has a new book, Not Dead Yet. "Music has given me everything, but it's also taken everything from me," he says.

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Clockwise from upper left: Priests, James Chance, Fialta, Kevin Morby

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New Music From Priests, Kevin Morby, James Chance, More

5:07pm November 01, 2016

This week's show features new music from D.C.'s Priests, as well as a selection of joyful tunes from Crystal Fighters, Fialta and more.

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Marcel Khalife performs in Carthage, Tunis in 2012. His new album, Andalusia Of Love, is an exploration of religious pluralism.

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Lebanese Composer Marcel Khalife's Urgent Reminder That Peace Is Possible

4:41pm November 01, 2016

by Banning Eyre

For over four decades, Khalife has made music amid political turmoil and social upheaval. His latest album, Andalusia Of Love, is brooding and wistfully optimistic.

John Paul White performs live in Philadelphia for World Cafe.

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John Paul White On World Cafe

4:23pm November 01, 2016

by David Dye

After White left The Civil Wars, his songs started flowing again, whether he wanted them to or not. Watch him perform "What's So," from his new solo album, Beulah.

James Marsden and Evan Rachel Wood in the HBO series Westworld.

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Listen: The Music From 'Westworld' Is Finally Here

2:32pm November 01, 2016

by Robin Hilton

The musical easter eggs buried in HBO's Westworld are now available to hear in their entirety, including solo piano versions of Radiohead's "No Surprises" and The Cure's "A Forest."

Wynton Marsalis onstage in New York in April 2016. His new violin concerto made its East Coast debut with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center last week.

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The Transatlantic Collaboration Behind Wynton Marsalis' New Violin Concerto

11:48am November 01, 2016

by Nina Totenberg

The jazz trumpeter wrote his Concerto in D for, and with, the Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti. The two say the process was "fascinating" — but painstakingly slow.

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Mega Bog's new album, Happy Together, comes out Feb. 3, 2017.

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Songs We Love: Mega Bog, 'Fwee'

11:04am November 01, 2016

by Laura Snapes

Erin Birgy echoes the liberationist vibe of the West Coast's hippie heyday with a seven-piece rock band blissing out by a glimmering shoreline.

Margaret Glaspy in a scene from a new video for her song "Emotions And Math."

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First Watch: Margaret Glaspy, 'Emotions And Math'

11:04am November 01, 2016

by Robin Hilton

As the video unfolds, Glaspy builds a collage of wall art with mementos from someone she misses until the whole thing looks like a wild mix of ciphers right out of A Beautiful Mind.

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First Watch: Delicate Steve, 'Cartoon Rock'

9:58am November 01, 2016

by Bob Boilen

Delicate Steve says his new song was born of "imagining what cartoon music might actually sound like if ZZ Top were the genre's founding fathers." Watch the video, starring bandmate Christian Peslak.

A frame from Lera Lynn's "Image" music video.

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Watch Lera Lynn's New Video For 'Image'

9:03am November 01, 2016

by Bruce Warren

The singer calls her latest single "a reflection on American culture, our infatuation with celebrity, infamy, shock value and drama."