Music & Culture

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Nobel Panel Still Knock, Knock, Knockin' On Dylan's Door

7:03am October 18, 2016

The Swedish Academy announced that Bob Dylan was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The mercurial songwriter hasn't responded to the academy's invitation to a December ceremony in his honor.

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"Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe," Vangelis says.

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From Composer Vangelis, A True Story Set In Outer Space

5:43pm October 17, 2016

by Tim Greiving

"We are part of the universe, and the music is the code," Vangelis says. The composer of Chariots Of Fire fame has released a new album, Rosetta, named after the recent European Space Agency mission.

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World Cafe Next: Loamlands

5:30pm October 17, 2016

Raleigh-Durham punk Kym Register acknowledges guitar pop's allure in a project with Will Hackney.

Peter Wolf's latest solo album is A Cure For Loneliness.

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Peter Wolf On World Cafe

4:40pm October 17, 2016

The former J. Geils Band frontman is a font of musical knowledge. Watch him play "Fun For A While" live onstage in Philadelphia.

Slavic Soul Party! Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite is out now.

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From Slavic Soul Party!, A Match Made In High-Concept Heaven

4:36pm October 17, 2016

by Tom Moon

The latest album from the Brooklyn-based Balkan party band is a rearrangement of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's Far East Suite.

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Tiny Desk Concert with Billy Bragg & Joe Henry.

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Billy Bragg & Joe Henry: Tiny Desk Concert

4:19pm October 17, 2016

by Bob Boilen

Performing songs they recorded on a recent train journey across the U.S., the two songwriters celebrate the romance and vitality of the modern railroad.

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Wadada Leo Smith Celebrates The Centennial Of America's National Parks

3:26pm October 17, 2016

by Kevin Whitehead

Five decades after Smith began recording, the trumpeter and composer is having his moment. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews America's National Parks, recorded by Smith's Golden Quintet.

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"A Song for You" was recorded at the sessions that produced Donny Hathaway's 1972 album Donny Hathaway Live, but it wasn't included on the original album. More than four decades later, it illustrates how Hathaway merged technique with pure emotion.

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One Transcendent Performance That Illustrates Donny Hathaway's Musical Genius

3:24pm October 17, 2016

by Emily Lordi

In an excerpt of a book dedicated to the classic soul album Donny Hathaway Live, author Emily Lordi looks at the ingredients that make Hathaway's cover of "A Song for You" such an achievement.

This week's mix includes the latest from Gigamesh.

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Metropolis: 10/15/16

11:59am October 17, 2016

Hear new tracks from Le Youth, Gigamesh, Gorgon City and more in this week's two-hour EDM mix from KCRW's Jason Bentley.

Dark Blue's new album, Start of the World, comes out Nov. 4.

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Songs We Love: Dark Blue, 'Bombs On The Beach'

11:46am October 17, 2016

by Maria Sherman

The Philly post-punk band's intimate story of war gets under the skin, cold and heavy.