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'You Can't Prepare Yourself': A Conversation With Adele

10:32am November 25, 2015

by NPR Staff

The singer's career has been a story in numbers, and not just the ones in her album titles. She discusses motherhood, stage fright, the Spice Girls and more in an extended chat with Ari Shapiro.

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Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen has won this year's Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his song cycle let me tell you. It's his first vocal work.

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Hans Abrahamsen Wins The Grawemeyer Award For Music

4:31pm November 24, 2015

by Tom Huizenga

The Danish composer's evocative song cycle let me tell you features an ingenious mashup of all the words allotted to Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Alessia Cara's debut album, Know-It-All, is out now.

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Alessia Cara Becomes The Life Of The Party

3:51pm November 24, 2015

by Daniel Hajek

A reluctant party-goer, the 19-year old Ontario singer turns an anti-party hit into a celebration of her talents. "Nothing is unrealistic anymore," Cara says of her success.

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Baio On World Cafe

3:14pm November 24, 2015

Vampire Weekend's bassist shows off his love for pop and DJing in his first solo album, The Names.

Jerry Martini and Cynthia Robinson from The Family Stone performing in 2011. Robinson died Monday at age 69.

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Remembering Cynthia Robinson, Co-Founder Of Sly & The Family Stone

2:34pm November 24, 2015

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The woman who urged fans to "Dance to the Music" was a trailblazing trumpeter. She died Monday at age 69.

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Songs We Love: Baaba Maal, 'Fulani Rock'

12:31pm November 24, 2015

by Piotr Orlov

The Senegalese vocal master meets The Very Best producer and causes a mighty rhythmic ruckus.

Clockwise from upper left: Missy Elliott, PWR BTTM, Macklemore and Leon Bridges, kristine leschper of the band Mothers.

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New Mix: Missy Elliot, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, PWR BTTM And More

11:55am November 24, 2015

This week we have new music from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, the glorious return of Missy Elliott, a cut from PWR BTTM and more songs that will make you smile.

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The Kentucky Headhunters On Mountain Stage

11:32am November 24, 2015

The influential country rock band performs some of its most beloved hits.

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Laddio Bolocko, 'Nurser (Live in Jönköping, Sweden 2000)'

10:13am November 24, 2015

by Lars Gotrich

The late '90s NYC noise-rock band played with a white-hot intensity that turned surreal. Watch a grainy and grueling video of Laddio Bolocko live at the height of its powers.

This week's episode of Metropolis includes an A-Trak remix of BORNS' "Electric Love."

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Metropolis: 11/21/15

9:00pm November 23, 2015

KCRW's Jason Bentley spins music by BORNS, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Disclosure and more in this week's two-hour EDM mix.