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Zone Out To Zomes In A Blissful Visualization Of Music

10:48am December 11, 2015

by Lars Gotrich

Multimedia artist Shannon Collis directs a satisfyingly soothing video for the drone duo's song "Ruminants," in the process truly visualizing its quiet, ever-shifting layers of sound.

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KCRW Presents: Raury

10:41am December 11, 2015

by Jason Bentley

Watch the genre-defying Atlanta musician perform "Friends" live in an L.A. studio.

Nico Muhly's new holiday song is based on Longfellow's poem Snow-flakes.

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Snowflakes and Troubled Hearts: A New Holiday Song By Nico Muhly

9:11am December 11, 2015

by Tom Huizenga

Hear a deceptive take on the winter blues by way of a versatile choir, a young New York composer and a 150-year-old poem by Longfellow.

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A Jazz Piano Christmas 2015

9:04am December 11, 2015

Kenny Barron, Fred Hersch, Carmen Staaf and Joey Alexander — a roster whose ages span more than 60 years — play solo renditions of their holiday favorites at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

"Juliana Huxtable own art 1": Untitled (Destroying Flesh) from the "UNIVERSAL CROP TOPS FOR ALL THE SELF CANONIZED SAINTS OF BECOMING" series, 2015

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Heavenly Bodies

8:10am December 11, 2015

by Andy Battaglia

This year, a cast of progressive experimentalists, such as Arca, Juliana Huxtable and Elysia Crampton, among others, tackled matters of identity with an imaginative and expansive focus.

A New Place 2 Drown is Archy Marshall's first music since the release of his debut album as King Krule, 6 Feet Beneath The Moon in 2013.

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'We Make Stuff Every Day': King Krule's Archy Marshall On His New Multi-Media Album

10:13pm December 10, 2015

by Marc Hogan

A New Place 2 Drown, out today, is 37 minutes of music, but also an art book and a short documentary made in collaboration with Marshall's brother Jack that lays bare their south London life.

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Sense Of Place Minneapolis: Peter Jesperson & Tommy Stinson

8:42pm December 10, 2015

Hear interviews with two men who played a role in the story of The Replacements.

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Dweezil Zappa On Dad's Music: We Treat It 'Like It's Classical Music'

7:15pm December 10, 2015

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with musician Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank Zappa, about his new album, Via Zammata, and his father's influence on his music.

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Sense Of Place Minneapolis: Low

4:39pm December 10, 2015

Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker have spent more than two decades playing slowly in Low.

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Songs We Love: Aloe Blacc, 'Merry Christmas Mr. Brown'

3:11pm December 10, 2015

by Kris Ex

The soul singer's musical gift to the families of police violence is a healing Christmas Spirit.