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July 08, 2010
He should be a name everyone knows by now. Instead, troubadour David Dondero returned to NPR having slept the night before in his car. Dondero travels from club to club, singing his well-crafted ...
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July 06, 2010
Los Campesinos! usually performs with as many as eight members — the group needs that many to reproduce the mightily clamorous ruckus heard on its records -- but only four Campesinos are ...
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June 28, 2010
Traveling from Noid, a small town in England, The Heavy creates a one-of-a-kind retro-soul sound that’s heavy, dirty, and funky. Performing at the corner of 7th and Red River in Austin, Tex., the ...
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June 28, 2010
Annie Clark of St. Vincent stops by the BPP studios to play a few songs and talk about her music. Her debut album is Marry Me.
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June 28, 2010
Gogol Bordello’s frenetic live show is a gypsy punk circus, complete with a high-wire act. So when the band arrived at the modest NPR Music offices, we wanted to make sure we were covered ...
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June 26, 2010
After 34 years of making music, Sweet Honey in the Rock has kept its flavor and its fan base, even as its lineup has changed. The group recently visited NPR for a performance and interview, ...
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June 26, 2010
Carbon/Silicon is a collaboration between The Clash’s Mick Jones and Tony James of the Billy Idol-fronted Generation X, but its sound veers more toward danceable rock. See and hear the band play ...
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June 24, 2010
The Whigs are hailed as leading a return to All-American Rock. The band from Athens, Georgia, plays from their new album, Mission Control.
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June 24, 2010
The enchanting Philadelphia folksinger joins David Garland on WNYC’s Spinning on Air to unveil new songs and intriguing covers of music by The House of Love, Kurt Vile and Marc Almond. Listen to ...
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June 22, 2010
On For Emma, Forever Ago, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon sings in a heartbreaking falsetto.  Meanwhile, his backing band provides a comforting wash of gently strummed guitars, set ...
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June 22, 2010
Laura Burhenn says she’d long imagined a band that sounded like Neil Young playing Motown. A veteran of the pop group Georgie James, she formed The Mynabirds to capture a grittier and more ...
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June 22, 2010
Even after 12 million albums sold in more than three decades, Yankovic and his band still hadn’t played their first Tiny Desk Concert until just now. In these three Yankovic originals ...
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June 04, 2010
For cellist Zuill Bailey, J.S. Bach’s solo cello suites loom as a kind of musical Mount Everest. As Bailey describes it, every trip up the mountain brings a new challenge.  Hear ...
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June 02, 2010
A.A. Bondy plays songs live at SXSW from his debut, American Hearts. The former Verbena frontman leaves behind the rock crunch of his former band for bluesy folk songs about damnation and ...
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June 02, 2010
Authors Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, Scott Turow, Amy Tan, Roy Blount Jr., Kathy Kamen Goldmark and Sam Barry didn’t bring any instruments to their performance at Bob Boilen's desk. But ...
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June 02, 2010
Vocalist Colin Meloy just released Colin Meloy Sings Live!, an album of live tracks from solo performances. The songs include stripped-down Decemberists songs and other covers played at some of ...
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May 27, 2010
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May 25, 2010
Cloud Cult’s uplifting indie-rock raised spirits on the corner of 7th and Red River in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest Music Festival. Accompanied by strings and a trombone, the band ...
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May 23, 2010
In the past eight years, Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel have made five albums, married and had two children. The pair, who record as Mates of State, stop by the Bryant Park Project studios to play ...
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May 23, 2010
We were not prepared for Bettye LaVette’s appearance in the NPR Music offices. We thought we were — having set up our cameras and recording gear and signed in all the friends who had ...
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