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British Singer Ellie Goulding Strikes An Inventive Chord With 'Delirium'

2:35pm January 04, 2016

by Ken Tucker

The "Love Me Like You Do" singer created her new album as an experiment — to see if she could make a "big pop album." Reviewer Ken Tucker says Goulding's experimental effort was worth the risk.

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World Cafe Next: Marlon Williams

2:20pm January 04, 2016

Hear a pair of emotional, stylistically diverse songs from the New Zealander's international debut.

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Osmo Vänskä conducts the Minnesota Orchestra in Havana, Cuba in May 2015.

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Classical Music In 2015: The Year In Review

2:00pm January 04, 2016

by Tom Huizenga

As a new year begins, take a quick glance back at some of the notable birthdays, anniversaries, awards, trends and farewells that made 2015 unique in classical music.

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Songs We Love: Joella DeVille, 'Submit To Ya'

10:06am January 04, 2016

by Kiana Fitzgerald

Jersey City singer-songwriter perfects the art of simple R&B seduction on a track that would have made our "Songs of 2015" list, if there was room for one more.

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Punk Before It Had A Name, Rocket From The Tombs Releases An Album

8:14am January 03, 2016

by David C. Barnett

One of the most influential proto punk bands of the mid-1970s, Rocket from the Tombs, is back together. The group's new album is Black Record.

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Stand Right, Walk Left: The Smooth Swing Of Subway Etiquette

8:14am January 03, 2016

by Yu Sun Chin

Subway commuters in major cities live by unspoken codes of conduct. In Washington, D.C., a local rule of escalator etiquette inspired jazz musicians Aaron Myers and Oren Levine to write a song.

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How The Hammond Organ Sound Laid The Tracks For Gospel's Hit Train

8:14am January 03, 2016

by Anne Ford

The sound of the Hammond organ was invented for churches as an alternative to pipe organs. But it's distinctive sound became crucial to the development of a new kind of music: gospel.

Each session from Daytrotter comes with an illustration. Wilco recorded one in 2011.

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Daytrotter At 10: A Midwestern Rite Of Passage

2:00am January 03, 2016

by Clay Masters

As the studio turns a decade old, Daytrotter has moved out of its spot above a pizza joint to new digs in Davenport, Iowa. It's hosted sessions with Wilco, Glen Campbell, Naughty By Nature and more.

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Daytrotter At 10: A Midwestern Rite Of Passage

2:00am January 03, 2016

by Clay Masters

As the studio turns a decade old, Daytrotter has moved out of its spot above a pizza joint to new digs in Davenport, Iowa. It's hosted sessions with Wilco, Glen Campbell, Naughty By Nature and more.

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Across The Blue Ridge - Episode 1 (Breaking Up Christmas)

7:36pm January 02, 2016

by Paul Brown

Across the Blue Ridge returns to WFDD with a fun-filled tour of the Breaking Up Christmas holiday party tradition in northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia. Host Paul Brown

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