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Clockwise from upper left: Sufjan Stevens with James McCalister, Perfume Genius, Gorillaz, The Family Crest

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New Mix: Sufjan Stevens, Gorillaz, Perfume Genius, More

1:13pm March 28, 2017

This week's essential mix includes a profoundly moving elegy to a lost sister from Hippo Campus, an electro-pop dance track from Sufjan Stevens' latest project, new music from Gorillaz and more.

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Two Inch Astronaut's new album, Can You Please Not Help, comes out June 2.

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Two Inch Astronaut Is Back Already, Shares Some Real-Talk With 'Snitch Jacket'

1:13pm March 28, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

Only a year since the last one, the D.C. post-punk band already has album number four in the bag. Hear the weirdly catchy first single from Can You Please Not Help.

A still from PWR BTTM's "Answer My Text" video.

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PWR BTTM Confronts Smartphone Loneliness In Its Video For 'Answer My Text'

11:09am March 28, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

This song's for all the dirtbags that took their sweet time to text back.

Pokey LaFarge performs on Mountain Stage.

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Watch Pokey LaFarge Perform 'Hard Times Come And Go' Live On Mountain Stage

11:00am March 28, 2017

by Joni Deutsch

The St. Louis multi-instrumentalist leads his six-piece band in a set recorded live in Charleston, W.Va.

A still from Slowdive's "Sugar For The Pill" video.

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Slowdive Announces First Album In 22 Years, Shares The Twinkling 'Sugar For The Pill'

9:22am March 28, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

Now Slowdive's first album in two decades has a name: Slowdive. Watch shapes uncoil in a video for the gracefully subdued new single.

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Sufjan Stevens Goes To 'Saturn' With Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, James McAlister

1:54pm March 27, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

Forget the 50 States Project, Sufjan Stevens is going to space. Planetarium's first single sends Stevens into an Auto-Tuned synth-topia.

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Watch A Video For Nana Grizol's Scrappy, Sweet And Political 'Mississippi Swells'

1:47pm March 27, 2017

by Lars Gotrich

Theo Hilton turns a song about oil refineries into a long and reflective conversation with a friend. Members of Elf Power and The Music Tapes blare the bridge's horn section.