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Kanye West and Lil Pump as Perrier and Fiji, respectively, as Adele Givens looms overhead.

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'SNL' Musical Guests, Ranked From No. 1 To Greta Van Fleet

11:00am May 20, 2019

by Stephen Thompson

BTS! DJ Khaled! Paul Simon! Kanye West dressed as a bottle of sparkling water! This season of Saturday Night Live had it all, and now all 21 performances have been cruelly ranked for your enjoyment.

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Spice Girls Tour Bus, Justin Bieber Icelandic Video Location

6:58am May 20, 2019

The band's old touring bus is listed on Airbnb for rent in June during a London reunion concert. And, authorities closed off a canyon after too many visitors wanted to see where Bieber shot a video.

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LGBT Anthem: Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way'

5:44am May 20, 2019

by Lynn Neary

Lady Gaga has called her 2011 song her "freedom song." It's defiant and proud. And it has become an American anthem for the LGBT community. (This piece initially aired on Jan. 30, 2019 on ATC.)

Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead performs at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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A Conversation With Jonny Greenwood, On Chaos And The Element Of Surprise

2:00am May 20, 2019

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood talks about his classical music featured on NPR Music's Tiny Desk, his love for the recorder and his composer heroes such as Steve Reich and Krzysztof Penderecki.

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Making Movies (pictured) enlist Latin legend Ruben Blades for its upcoming album Ameri'kana.

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Making Movies And Rubén Blades Trace Stories Of Immigrant Injustice With 'Ameri'kana'

8:45am May 19, 2019

Latino star Rubén Blades teams up with Making Movies to addresses themes of injustices in the collaborative album Ameri'kana.

Duncan Laurence of the Netherlands, the winner of Eurovision 2019, captured during the competition on Saturday in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Duncan Laurence From The Netherlands Wins Eurovision 2019

8:28pm May 18, 2019

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Singers from 26 countries competed in the finals of the global song competition, which was held Saturday evening in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Eurovision 2019 Concludes

8:12am May 18, 2019

Europe's favorite music competition, the Eurovision Song Contest, concludes tonight. NPR's Scott Simon talks with William Lee Adams, founder of the Eurovision fan site Wiwibloggs, about the contest.

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The Head And The Heart's 'Living Mirage' Has An Emphasis On Starting Fresh

2:04pm May 17, 2019

The band talks about its trip to Joshua Tree and the new writing that it inspired.

A still from DJ Khaled's "Higher" video, featuring John Legend and Nipsey Hussle.

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DJ Khaled Takes Nipsey Hussle 'Higher'

1:26pm May 17, 2019

by Joshua Bote

"Higher" is the first official song from Nipsey Hussle released posthumously since his untimely death in March. Proceeds will go directly to the late rapper's children.

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Vampire Weekend's 'Father Of The Bride' Puts A Light Touch On Heavy Topics

1:24pm May 17, 2019

by Ken Tucker

The band's longest album to date is so polished you may not initially take in all the emotion roiling beneath its surface. Father of the Bride introduces new themes and a new ambition.

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