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Singer-Songwriter John Prine Draws On His Roots With 'Tree Of Forgiveness'

2:01pm April 12, 2018

by Ken Tucker

Prine keeps his earthiness alive on his first album of new songs in 13 years. Critic Ken Tucker says The Tree of Forgiveness features simple folk arrangements and a jaunty tone.

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This week's episode of The Thistle & Shamrock features music by John Doyle.

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The Thistle & Shamrock: New Writing

1:51pm April 12, 2018

Brand-new music, including festival commissions and soundtracks, from artists including Gillian Frame, Michael Rooney and The Macalla Orchestra, John Doyle, John McCusker and Mike McGoldrick.

Clockwise from top left: Anthony Lucius; Cecilia + the Broken Hearts; Kelly Hoppenjans; Stone & Snow; Anju; Kerrin Connolly

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Watch This Week's Outstanding Entries From The Tiny Desk Contest

1:00pm April 12, 2018

Our judges are one week closer to picking this year's winner — in the meantime, check out the entries that stood out to us this week.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe onstage with her guitar in 1957.

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe Gets Her Day In The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

12:08pm April 12, 2018

by Bruce Warren

The late gospel singer and guitarist will get an overdue recognition for her crucial influence on early rock and roll, joining a class of inductees that includes Bon Jovi, Dire Straits and The Cars.

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World Cafe Nashville: Dom Flemons

11:38am April 12, 2018

by Ann Powers

Flemons' latest work, Black Cowboys, explodes the stereotypes that have dominated one of America's founding mythologies and opens up the frontier for all to claim.

Ashley Monroe's Sparrow is out April 20 on Warner Bros.

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First Listen: Ashley Monroe, 'Sparrow'

11:30am April 12, 2018

by Jewly Hight

Be prepared to be swept up by Monroe's subtle and breathtaking Sparrow, a record fluent in the communal languages of folk, country, gospel and pop.

Kali Uchis' latest album Isolation draws from the Colombian-American singer's love for bossa nova, funk, pop and more.

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Guest DJ Kali Uchis On How Astrud Gilberto And N.E.R.D. Inspired Her Debut Album

11:22am April 12, 2018

by Sidney Madden

The Colombian-American singer recalls her favorite childhood memories tied to music and plays some of the songs that inspired her debut album Isolation.

Watch Destroyer's full Morning Becomes Eclectic performance at KCRW.com

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Watch Destroyer Perform 'Tinseltown Swimming In Blood' Live In The Studio

10:14am April 12, 2018

by Jason Bentley

Destroyer, the long-running solo project from The New Pornographer's Dan Bejar, traffics in foggy tales of intimate, modern-American decay. Destroyer's 12th album, 'ken,' showcases those evocations.

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Zac Farro Of Paramore Wants Halfnoise's 'She Said' To Free Your Head

9:25am April 12, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

The Paramore drummer coalesces his sunny, rhythmically rich psychedelic-pop tendencies on a new solo EP.

Exitmusic's The Recognitions comes out April 20 via felte.

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First Listen: Exitmusic, 'The Recognitions'

5:00am April 12, 2018

by Mike Katzif

Recorded amidst the slow dissipation of the duo's marriage and after their separation, these nine songs unwind like a melodramatic love story pulling apart bit by bit.