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A still from Glass Animals' "Youth" video.

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Songs We Love: Glass Animals, 'Youth'

3:17pm July 25, 2016

by Megan Buerger

Even with Glass Animals' perky, high-pitched synths and rich R&B drums, you can't help but sense tragedy in the air — especially when the song is paired with a video about a lost boy.

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R&B Singer Maxwell Is Majestic — And Vulnerable — On 'blackSUMMERS'night'

3:10pm July 25, 2016

by Ken Tucker

Maxwell creates an atmosphere of free-floating sensuality on his new album. Critic Ken Tucker says the record is "dreamy and roomy enough to accommodate a wide array of emotions."

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A special police officer examines the scene after an explosion in a public place in Ansbach, Germany, Monday. Bavaria's top security official says a man who blew himself up near an open-air music festival in the southern German city was a 27-year-old Syri

Syrian Suicide Bomber Injures 12 In Southern Germany

2:21pm July 25, 2016

by Bill Chappell

The man's request for asylum had been rejected; he was supposed to be deported to Bulgaria, according to German media reports.

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The only known photo from Pylon's farewell show in 1983 at the Mad Hatter — a performance which makes up the recordings heard on Live.

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Viking's Choice: Pylon, 'Beep (Live, 1983)'

2:17pm July 25, 2016

by Lars Gotrich

With Live, recorded at Pylon's final show in 1983, we hear a document that breathes and heaves, as these post-punk-disco mutants perform at the height of their evolution.

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Xenia Rubinos: Tiny Desk Concert

2:14pm July 25, 2016

by Felix Contreras

On Black Terry Cat and in the NPR Music offices, Rubinos' music uses her Afro-Caribbean roots as a jumping-off point for inventive, provocative songs.