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Hiss Golden Messenger's M.C. Taylor Processes His Pandemic Blues In Latest Album

9:24am June 26, 2021

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with M.C. Taylor, frontman for the North Carolina-based band Hiss Golden Messenger, about the new album Quietly Blowing It.

How The Fan-Led 'Free Britney' Campaign Figures Into The Star's Legal Battles

9:24am June 26, 2021

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Bianca Betancourt of Harper's Bazaar about Britney Spears and the legal fight over her conservatorship.

T-Pain performs at the ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on April 4, 2014.

Not My Job: We Quiz T-Pain On 'The Phantom Of The Opera'

7:40am June 26, 2021

The singer, songwriter, producer and rapper won the first season of The Masked Singer, so we've invited him to play a game called "The Half-Masked Singer."

"I feel like music is just a facet of my life, like it doesn't take hierarchical dominance over the people that I love and it never will," Lucy Dacus says. Her third album, Home Video, depicts memories and relationships from her years growing up in Richmo

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Lucy Dacus Is Her Own Unreliable Narrator

6:25pm June 25, 2021

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Richmond, Va., songwriter Lucy Dacus about the childhood memories — real and imagined — that populate her latest album, Home Video.

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Randall Goosby, 'Adoration'

3:19pm June 25, 2021

by Tom Huizenga

With his lush, warm tone and exceptional technique, concert violinist Randall Goosby is easily winning over music lovers.

#NowPlaying is a collection of today's essential songs, picked by NPR Music and NPR Member Stations.

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Pom Pom Squad, 'Drunk Voicemail'

10:00am June 25, 2021

by Robin Hilton

A standout track from Mia Berrin's debut album shreds its way through the dizzying uncertainty of young love, dating, parties and heartache, all while still living with one's parents.

Supporters of Britney Spears protesting during her conservatorship hearing in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Opinion: Britney Is The Latest Victim Of The Industry Machine

9:28am June 25, 2021

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Britney Spears' appearance in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday points to a broader history of how women in entertainment and the music business have been treated.

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SAULT, '9'

7:32am June 25, 2021

by Otis Hart

The title track to the mysterious collective's fifth LP is an aspirational bop about overcoming social injustice.

"At this point, I'm just trying to carve my own path and make music that matters to me," Brandy Clark says.

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Brandy Clark's 5 Favorite Tiny Desk Concerts

7:00am June 25, 2021

by Brandy Clark

The singer-songwriter says she got through the pandemic by regularly watching Tiny Desk (home) concerts, so we wanted to hear more about her favorite shows.

Mia Berrin of Pom Pom Squad. The band's full-length debut, Death of a Cheerleader, is out now.

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Life In Plastic: The Sweet And Sinister World Of Pom Pom Squad

6:01am June 25, 2021

by Alex Ramos

On their full-length debut, Death of a Cheerleader, Mia Berrin and her band queer the American adolescent experience with camp style, girl-group nostalgia and a dose of the uncanny.