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Morning Host Michele McBride shares her Top 10 albums of the year in no particular order
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Scott Pendell has combed through all the albums we've played this year. Check out the list of his Top 10 favorites.
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Rich Robinson has ranked his top albums of 2024. Check out his list.
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The Earworm Eraser is a 40-second audio track specifically designed to banish "Jingle Bells," "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and other much-too-catchy seasonal tunes.
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Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, the band plays a breathtaking and career-spanning set.
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The artist sings fervently of hope, joy and perseverance backed by a group of impressive gospel singers.
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The Cure's first album in 16 years, Songs of a Lost World, is thematically dark, but sonically rich and inviting. Still, though, Robert Smith says there's so much more to come.
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The British band hasn't had a chart-topping album in a decade, but it pulled out all the stops to promote its latest, Moon Music, including selling more than a dozen different versions of the album.
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Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, was working on a memoir when she died in 2023. Now, her daughter Riley Keough, has finished and published From Here to the Great Unknown.
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San Francisco software engineer Riley Walz's Bop Spotter runs the song identifier app Shazam to quietly listen in on what music passersby are listening to in the city's diverse Mission District.
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Arkansas unveiled a new statue of Johnny Cash in the U.S. Capitol. Cash, the first musician to be honored in the building, replaces a statue of a Confederate general.
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Music festivals are canceling their events like maybe never before. Call it the music festival recession.
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Ann Powers considers the breakthrough of indie rock up-and-comer MJ Lenderman, and finds that he’s got some classic rock in his tales of romantic woe.
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The Irish rock band performs songs from their latest album, Romance.
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Ticket prices for the U.K. tour have skyrocketed on resale sites since presale started Friday. The British rock band said tickets offered on the secondary market will be voided.
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The concert promoters who ran popular music cruises are now trying the music vacation concept on land, promising no lines and a different kind of music fest experience for both artists and fans.
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Special tracks for each state and territory were played during Tuesday night's DNC roll call. But what song repped your state? We found them all so you don't have to.
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The songwriter, guitarist and singer grounded her seventh studio album in the beauty and brutality of real life.
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The folk singer is set to play a rally for Vice President Harris and her yet-to-be-named running mate. They'll be in Wisconsin for a barnstorm tour of swing states.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with actor Hank Azaria, famous for his Simpsons voice-overs, who's now fronting a Bruce Springsteen cover band.
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In 1984, on the cusp of superstardom, Bruce Springsteen agreed to let a producer rework three songs from his upcoming album, Born in the U.S.A. 40 years later, those remixes have nearly vanished.
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NPR Member stations reveal the new names that have made a mark.
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Iron & Wine's Sam Beam joins us in the studio to talk about writing Light Verse, collaborating with Fiona Apple, and how he really feels about adjectives.