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Woods' new album, Love Is Love, comes out April 21.

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Songs We Love: Woods, 'Bleeding Blue'

9:55am April 11, 2017

by Marc Masters

Woods hadn't planned to make any new music in 2017, but after last year's election, the folk-rock band decided to focus on love.

Ray Davies' new album, Americana, is based on his 2013 memoir of the same name.

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To Ray Davies, America Is Still A Land Of Opportunity

8:15am April 11, 2017

The former Kinks leader speaks with Steve Inskeep about Americana, a musical distillation of his sometimes tumultuous life as British rock star in the U.S.

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Sleater-Kinney (from left, Janet Weiss, Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker) will release new music as part of a series to benefit Planned Parenthood.

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Planned Parenthood Benefit Will Include New Music From Sleater-Kinney and Feist

8:20pm April 10, 2017

by Andrew Flanagan

A long list of artists contributed work to the series, including Feist, Bon Iver, Sleater-Kinney, Nico Muhly, Björk, Laurie Anderson and many more.

Du Yun, 39, has won the music Pulitzer for her opera Angel's Bone.

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Du Yun Wins Music Pulitzer For 'Angel's Bone'

8:08pm April 10, 2017

by Tom Huizenga

The opera, by the 39-year-old Shanghai native, is a searing parable of human trafficking set to a score that ranges from Renaissance choral music to punk rock.

Firefighters and medics near the site of the Ghost Ship underground arts venue in Oakland, Ca., after a fire claimed the lives of at least thirty-six people. The East Bay Times won a Pulitzer for its reporting around the tragedy.

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East Bay Times Wins Pulitzer For Reporting On Ghost Ship Fire

6:30pm April 10, 2017

by Andrew Flanagan

Coverage of the December fire that killed 36 people in an Oakland, Calif. warehouse and DIY venue during a dance party won the Pulitzer for Breaking News Reporting.

Du Yun, in 2015. Her opera Angel's Bone was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music.

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Du Yun's 'Angel's Bone' Wins Pulitzer Prize For Music

4:37pm April 10, 2017

by Andrew Flanagan

Chinese-born composer Du Yun has taken home the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for music for her opera Angel's Bone, a work that melds fantasy with an allegory about human trafficking.

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Music News: Pultizer Prize Winners, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

4:28pm April 10, 2017

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with NPR Music Senior Editor Jacob Ganz and NPR's classical music producer, Tom Huizenga, about the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music, the newest inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and rapper Kanye West going platinum for his latest album.