Stephin Merritt records a Project Song for NPR. NPR hide caption
All Songs Considered Robin Hilton spins new music from emerging bands and musical icons.
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Clockwise from upper left: A woman faces riot police in Baltimore (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images); A woman and child sit amid earthquake ruble in Nepal (Omar Havana/Getty Images); Demonstrators outside the supreme court (Drew Angerer/Getty) Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
Weedeater. Scott Kinkade/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Top row: Audience members rate the music during our All Songs Considered listening party. Bottom row, left to right: Susan Rogers, Bob Boilen, Amelia Mason, James Reed, Stephen Thompson. NPR hide caption
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Mates Of State's new EP, You're Going To Make It, comes out June 16. Shervin Lainez/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Saturday
Leave Nickelback alone! Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Friday
Kelly Olsen at the kit for the Philadelphia-based rock trio Cayetana, performing at NPR Music's CMJ music festival show. Loren Wohl/for NPR hide caption
Guests hold up ratings cards at an All Songs Considered listening party in Boston. Kelly Davidson for NPR hide caption
Thursday
Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat in 1983. Jim Saah/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
A crowd in Times Square watches results of the 2008 presidential election. David Brabyn/Corbis hide caption
Kat Edmonson: Be The Change
Tuesday
Clockwise from upper left: My Morning Jacket, Sharon Van Etten, Matt Pond PA, Desaparecidos Courtesy of the artists hide caption
KEN mode. Brenna Faris/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
These Tight Jeans
Saturday
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Friday
Pygmy Lush. Alex Christopher Williams/Courtesy of the artist hide caption