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Luciana Souza Explores Saudade In Her New Album 'The Book Of Longing'

5:23pm August 29, 2018

by Michelle Mercer

Luciana Souza is a Grammy-nominated jazz singer and composer best known for thoughtful takes on her native Brazilian songs. In The Book of Longing, she explores saudade, or yearning.

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Dev Hynes a.k.a Blood Orange performs during FYF Fest 2016 in Los Angeles.

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Blood Orange Bottles The Spirit Of An Outsider In Soulful Sweetness

5:22pm August 27, 2018

by Tom Moon

Dev Hynes, better known in the music world as Blood Orange, gets more experimental and more personal on his latest album 'Negro Swan.'

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First-Rate Performances Drive 'King Of The Road' Tribute To Roger Miller

2:13pm August 27, 2018

by Ken Tucker

Miller, who died in 1992, had a career that spanned three decades. A new 36-track tribute album features a very eclectic line-up, including Dolly Parton, Ringo Starr and actor John Goodman.

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First Listen: Thou, 'Magus'

5:00am August 23, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

The metal band mixes existential rage, slow-moving sludge and elegant melodies on an album-length examination of the ego.

Aaron Lee Tasjan's Karma For Cheap comes out Aug. 31.

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First Listen: Aaron Lee Tasjan, 'Karma For Cheap'

5:00am August 23, 2018

by Ann Powers

Aaron Lee Tasjan is a lifelong student of cool rock moves, and could fit the every-rocker part if he weren't such a relatable oddball.

Saintseneca's Pillar of Na comes out August 31.

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First Listen: Saintseneca, 'Pillar Of Na'

5:00am August 23, 2018

by Stephen Thompson

The Ohio folk-rock band matches fatalistic, ruminative rambles to arrangements that sparkle and surprise.

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'Wild! Wild! Wild!' Coheres As A Carefully Conceived Lark

3:33pm August 20, 2018

by Ken Tucker

Linda Gail Lewis and Robbie Fulks have teamed up on a shrewd, witty album that's a throwback to the earliest era of rock n' roll — but it's not pickled in nostalgia.

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On Be the Cowboy, Mitski attempts to challenge the implicit pressure of her "sad girl" portrayal.

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Mitski's Fiction Is Your Truth On 'Be The Cowboy'

6:00am August 17, 2018

by Catherine Zhang

On her fifth album, Mitski isn't an inconsolable woman, leaking with grief; she's an object of her own artful construction — a woman in control.

Candi Staton's Unstoppable comes out Aug. 24.

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First Listen: Candi Staton, 'Unstoppable'

7:29pm August 16, 2018

by Alison Fensterstock

The Southern soul survivor has made an album about strength: a holistic shot in the arm to help you find the fortitude to fight.

Dee White's debut is called Southern Gentleman.

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First Listen: Dee White, 'Southern Gentleman'

4:10pm August 16, 2018

by Jewly Hight

On his debut, recorded with studio gurus Dan Auerbach and David Ferguson, Dee White does something very different with his vintage country tastes. Alison Krauss guests.