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Grant Hart (center) with Greg Norton (left) and Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü in 1987, one year before the band's dissolution.

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Grant Hart, Hüsker Dü Drummer And Songwriter, Is Dead At 56

4:49pm September 14, 2017

by Andrew Flanagan

Hart, who wrote songs like "Turn on the News" for the influential Minneapolis band and went on to become a fixture of the city after the band's dissolution, battled cancer publicly for many years.

Drummer Grant Hart, Co-Founder Of Punk Band Hüsker Dü, Dies At 56

4:38pm September 14, 2017

by Andrew Limbong

Drummer Grant Hart co-founded one of the most influential punk bands of all time: Hüsker Dü. Hart played drums and wrote many of the trio's songs. He died of complications from liver cancer and hepatitis C Thursday night at the age of 56.

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Songs We Love: Chela, 'Bad Habit'

4:35pm September 14, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

You never stop being a punk, even when you start making pop music. Chela's new single is a complex and desperate dance inward, and keeps us wanting more.

Musician Fred Hersch Recounts A Life 'In And Out Of Jazz' In His New Memoir

2:50pm September 14, 2017

Nearly 30 years ago, Hersch was among the first jazz musicians to come out as both gay and HIV positive. His memoir looks back on that time, as well as the time he spent in a medically induced coma.

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Luciferian Towers is out Sept. 22.

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First Listen: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 'Luciferian Towers'

2:35pm September 14, 2017

by Andrew Flanagan

Stream the iconic Canadian collective's new album in its entirety.

Sarah Elizabeth Charles' new album, Free Of Form, comes out Oct. 6.

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Songs We Love: Sarah Elizabeth Charles, 'Change To Come'

12:00pm September 14, 2017

by Jenny Gathright

Inspired by the death of Eric Garner, the jazz singer asks an essential question in the spacious track, featuring trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: "What is needed for the change to come?"