Drive-By Truckers: Tiny Desk Concert
The long-running rock band holds a mirror to the hard realities of America right now on American Band. Watch Drive-By Truckers' emotional performance at the NPR Music office.
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Lil Wayne's Rikers Island Memoir Only Tells Half The Story
Gone 'Til November, transcribed from the journal he kept while at Rikers, isn't particularly revealing, but it offers a chance to stop and take stock of where the rapper has been since.
Whitney On World Cafe
Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek's new band has won over music lovers with its warm, woozy sound. Hear Whitney play songs from Light Upon The Lake live in Philadelphia.
Metropolis: 10/22/16
KCRW's Jason Bentley spins new music from Machinedrum, KDA, Justice and more in a two-hour EDM mix.
Drake Shares New Songs, Announces 'More Life'
The Canadian rapper and singer debuted "Two Birds, One Stone," "Sneakin'" and "Fake Love" Sunday night on his Beats 1 radio program.
Run The Jewels Announces New Album, Shares 'Talk To Me'
The duo announces RTJ3 with a single from Adult Swim. With spooky production, low-end piano and John Bonham-size drum fills, "Talk To Me" sounds like John Carpenter took his synths to Valhalla.
Joanna Newsom Shares Unreleased Song, 'Make Hay'
Newsom celebrates the one-year anniversary of Divers with a song recorded during that album's sessions.
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Real Actual Roots: Yola Carter On Growing Up British, Loving Americana
Carter got her start in the U.K. electronic scene singing for the Bugz In The Attic and Massive Attack, but her first love was always Dolly Parton.
Musician Lalin St. Juste On Writing Through Grief
The singer and lyricist of The Seshen wrote the song "Distant Heart" about the loss of a friend. And while it comes from a place of loss, she says it carries her friend's joy and light, too.
Monthly Song Project Gives The Raveonettes Freedom Of 'A Blank Slate'
Members of the Danish rock band, Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo, say their unconvential launch strategy will result in an album that may be "totally schizophrenic, but in a really wonderful way."