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"I feel like I've always been referencing back to those dark childlike adventure stories," Natasha Khan says of the '80s films that inspired the latest Bat for Lashes album, Lost Girls.

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On 'Lost Girls,' Bat For Lashes Spins A Vampire Fairy Tale With Synth-Pop

6:08pm February 16, 2020

After her 2016 release, The Bride, Natasha Khan didn't know if she'd make another album. But she moved to LA, starting working on a script for a vampire film and found herself writing a concept album.

Weather is the first record of original music from Huey Lewis & The News in nearly 20 years.

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Facing Hearing Loss, Huey Lewis Releases What 'May Be' His Last Album

9:47pm February 15, 2020

by Leila Fadel

Huey Lewis & The News just released their first album of original music in almost 20 years. But Weather also might be the last for the band's frontman, whose hearing collapsed two years ago.

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Harry Nilsson's concept album The Point — about a round-headed boy in a world where everything is pointy — turns 50 this year.

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50 Years Of 'The Point,' Harry Nilsson's Wonderful, Weird Musical Fable

8:25am February 15, 2020

50 years after Harry Nilsson's concept album about a round-headed boy from a land of pointy heads, his son Kiefo and actor Mike Lookinland talk about a new release of the animated film from 1971.

R. Kelly attends a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago in September 2019.

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R. Kelly Faces New Sex Abuse Charges From Illinois Federal Prosecutors

7:05pm February 14, 2020

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

In a superseding indictment filed Thursday, federal prosecutors allege that beginning in about 1997, the R&B singer sexually abused another minor, who was about 14 years old at the time.

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Court Records Confirm Works From Nirvana, Elton John And Others Damaged In 2008 Fire

5:12pm February 14, 2020

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

In court filings made public Thursday, Universal Music Group disclosed specifics about recordings lost or damaged in a 2008 vault fire.

Fresh off his cameo in the Super Bowl halftime show, Bad Bunny teamed up with Sech on "Ignorantes."

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Bad Bunny And Sech Celebrate Lonely Hearts With 'Ignorantes'

3:12pm February 14, 2020

by Julyssa Lopez

The two Latin pop stars collaborated on a Valentine's Day video.

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Remembering Joseph Shabalala, Founder Of Ladysmith Black Mambazo

1:52pm February 14, 2020

by Terry Gross

Shabalala, who died Feb. 11, fronted of the South African a capella group. He spoke with Terry Gross in 1991 about collaborating with Paul Simon on Graceland and growing up on a farm.

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The Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Va., hosted live performances for World Cafe's Sense of Place episodes this past week.

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Central Virginia Music Scene 101 With WNRN's Desiré Moses

11:05am February 14, 2020

For next month's Sense Of Place, we go from Charlottesville to Richmond. Today we explore both cities with WNRN's managing producer, music writer and host Desiré Moses.

Laura Stevenson performs at a Tiny Desk Concert on Dec. 12, 2019. (Emily Bogle/NPR)

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Laura Stevenson: Tiny Desk Concert

7:53am February 14, 2020

by Stephen Thompson

Backed by a small string section, Stevenson performed three songs that sounded so gorgeous, an actual marriage proposal broke out shortly after her set ended.

Siblings Finneas O'Connell and Billie Eilish, photographed attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 9, 2020 in Beverly Hills.

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At Last, Billie Eilish's James Bond Theme Song Is Here

9:42pm February 13, 2020

by Stephen Thompson

"No Time to Die," the theme to the first new Bond film since 2015, trades on the moody melancholy of the newly minted Grammy winner.