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Terrestrial Doom: 30 Songs For Our Age Of Anxiety

6:42am December 11, 2019

by Cyrena Touros

This year-end playlist showcases the music that best captured 2019's ever-wary mood, presented here in three 10-song movements of personal anxiety, global dread and moral resolution.

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Trad Ambition: 21 Country Tunes Livened Up By Looking Back

6:41am December 11, 2019

by Jewly Hight

Some of the best country songs of 2019 were equal parts tradition and ambition.

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The Most Soothing & Punishing Albums Of 2019

6:40am December 11, 2019

The intensity of these albums varies wildly, but the excellence of their execution and the consolation they offer do not.

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25 Songs We Bumped While Waiting For Rihanna's Album

6:39am December 11, 2019

The reggae-influenced R9 could drop any day now. Prepare yourself with some of the best Afro-Caribbean jams of the year.

Flo Milli performs at the Kicksperience Stage during the BET Experience on June 22 in Los Angeles.

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5 TikTok Songs From 2019 We'll Actually Remember

6:39am December 11, 2019

Could one of these songs be the next "Old Town Road"?

Lizzo performs at Radio City Music Hall on September 24, 2019, in New York City.

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The Music Of 2019 That Wasn't Actually Released In 2019

6:37am December 11, 2019

by Jacob Ganz

A surprising number of 2019's biggest hits, memes and musical breakthroughs have something in common: You could hear them before this year started.

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Best Music Of 2019: Editor's Note

6:36am December 11, 2019

by Jacob Ganz

You can't boil down an entire year of listening to one computer-generated playlist. So we made you 23.

Weyes Blood performs during a Tiny Desk concert, on Oct. 7, 2019. (Mhari Shaw/NPR)

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Weyes Blood: Tiny Desk Concert

5:00am December 11, 2019

by Robin Hilton

Watch the band perform a blissed-out, gently sweeping set featuring three songs from its latest album, Titanic Rising.

'Switched On Pop': Fluff For The Masses Or Misunderstood Masterpieces?

4:59pm December 10, 2019

Gonna take my horse to the old town road, gonna... wait, what were we talking about?

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Todd Marcus Tames The Raucous Bass Clarinet On 'Trio+'

3:57pm December 10, 2019

by Kevin Whitehead

Marcus gets a clean, unfettered sound from both his band and his instrument on his new album. Trio+ is crisp, tight and varied — with more good melodies than we can dip into.

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