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Brandi Carlile's By The Way, I Forgive You follows 2015's The Firewatcher's Daughter, nominated for best Americana album at the 2016 Grammys.

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Brandi Carlile On Practicing Forgiveness, Even When It's Hard

7:00am February 14, 2018

"It's a really radical and ugly, difficult process that, you know, great beauty comes from." The folk singer discusses her new album, By The Way, I Forgive You, with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.

The release of Loma's self-titled debut, out Feb. 16., also marks the end of a relationship amongst its members.

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Loma's Debut Album Marks Both A Beginning And An End

5:09am February 14, 2018

by Lindsay Totty

The trio and its first album are the product of two bands joining forces — but the creation of something new often requires the sacrifice of something known.

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Nick Hakim performs a Tiny Desk Concert on Dec. 13, 2018 (Jennifer Kerrigan/NPR).

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Nick Hakim: Tiny Desk Concert

5:00am February 14, 2018

by Bob Boilen

The music of Nick Hakim occupies a space and time that feels out of this world, with songs that explore the quietude of inner thoughts.

Count them. 69 songs about love from the World Cafe.

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69 Love Songs From World Cafe

5:23pm February 13, 2018

by Bruce Warren

You would think that people would've had enough of silly love songs? Not a chance. Hear our playlist modeled after The Magnetic Fields' classic album.

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Announcing The 2018 Tiny Desk Contest

5:05pm February 13, 2018

by Bob Boilen

Send us a video of you or your band playing an original song behind a desk (any desk). You could win a chance to play your own Tiny Desk concert and tour the U.S. with NPR Music.

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Tom Rapp photographed in 1998 at the Haddonfield train station in Philadelphia.

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Tom Rapp, '60s Folk Experimentalist And Civil Rights Attorney, Dead At 70

3:34pm February 13, 2018

by Andrew Flanagan

Rapp's band, Pearls Before Swine, sold an impressive number of records and contained strains of experimentalism that reverberated for decades after. He thought it was all fine.

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LIVE PLACEHOLDER

3:06pm February 13, 2018

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For so many, the hope and joy that Celia Cruz embodied made her difficult ascension to fame a footnote to her success.

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Celia Cruz's 'Son Con Guaguancó' And The Bridge To Fame In Exile

2:13pm February 13, 2018

by Stefanie Fernández

Recorded five years after Cruz left Cuba for good, Son Con Guaguancó depicts the singer on the cusp of major stardom as she adapts to a new life in the United States.

Bambara's Shadow On Everything comes out April 6.

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Bambara's Western Gothic Opus, 'Shadow On Everything,' Comes To Life

2:08pm February 13, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

The Brooklyn trio's post-punk has always had a sleek sort of menace to it, now set to a dark, twangy rumble.

Close, but not quite: Red Hot Chilli Pipers perform live.

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Mixup Leads Couple To See Red Hot Chilli Pipers

1:36pm February 13, 2018

by Joshua Bote

It was supposed to be a romantic getaway to see one of their favorite bands. But it turns out the bargain-priced tickets were too good to be true.