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New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 29

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 29

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The week's best new albums include Toro y Moi's spectacular MAHAL, hard-hitting rap from the New Jersey hip-hop duo Dälek's Precipice, R&B singer Kehlani's blue water road and more.

New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 29

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Tuesday

New Mix: Phoebe Bridgers, Wilco, Quinn Christopherson, more

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New Mix: Phoebe Bridgers, Wilco, Quinn Christopherson, more

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a live recording for the 20th anniversary of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, a new single from Phoebe Bridgers and more.

New Mix: Phoebe Bridgers, Wilco, Quinn Christopherson, more

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 22

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 22

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The best albums out this week include It's Almost Dry from Pusha T, space rock from Spiritualized, a gorgeous ambient record from OHYUNG, a rediscovered Charles Mingus live recording and more.

New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 22

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Tuesday

New Mix: Pink Floyd, Patrick Watson, Sonny Singh, more

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New Mix: Pink Floyd, Patrick Watson, Sonny Singh, more

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including a surprise return from Pink Floyd and uplifting songs from Sonny Singh, Patrick Watson and more.

New Mix: Pink Floyd, Patrick Watson, Sonny Singh, more

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New Music Friday: The Top 5 albums out on April 15

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New Music Friday: The Top 5 albums out on April 15

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NPR Music picks the best new albums out this week, including new releases by Kaitlin Butts, Samora Pinderhughes, Mal Blum and more.

New Music Friday: The Top 5 albums out on April 15

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Tuesday

New Mix: Joan Shelley, Craig Finn, Florist, more

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New Mix: Joan Shelley, Craig Finn, Florist, more

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including new ones from singer Joan Shelley, Florist, The Hold Steady's Craig Finn and more.

New Mix: Joan Shelley, Craig Finn, Florist, more

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 8

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 8

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It's a crazy-packed release day with new albums from Camila Cabello, Omar Apollo, an all-star collaboration with Wiz Khalifa, Big K.R.I.T., Girl Talk and Smoke DZA, Syd's Broken Hearts Club and more.

New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 8

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Monday

NPR's favorite music of March, from sledgehammer punk to a radiant cantata

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NPR's favorite music of March, from sledgehammer punk to a radiant cantata

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March's best new music includes Kilo Kish's pop treatise on this game called life, Jenny Hval's philosophy on art-making, Soul Glo's punk rage and more.

NPR's favorite music of March, from sledgehammer punk to a radiant cantata

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New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on April 1

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New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on April 1

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from the Bronx rapper T-Shyne, Sondre Lerche, the Canadian pop singer known as LIGHTS and more.

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on April 1

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Wednesday

Records That Changed Our Lives: Finding hope in Tracy Chapman and 'Brand New Eyes'

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Records That Changed Our Lives: Finding hope in Tracy Chapman and 'Brand New Eyes'

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What record changed your life? NPR Music's Turning the Tables, which challenges sexism in the pop music canon, asked writers that question. Every week in March, we're diving into their answers.

Records That Changed Our Lives: Finding hope in Tracy Chapman and 'Brand New Eyes'

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Tuesday

New Mix: Angel Olsen, Perfume Genius, Soccer Mommy, more

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New Mix: Angel Olsen, Perfume Genius, Soccer Mommy, more

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All Songs host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including songs of love from Angel Olsen and Soccer Mommy, a new one from the upcoming Perfume Genius album Ugly Season and more.

New Mix: Angel Olsen, Perfume Genius, Soccer Mommy, more

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Friday

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 25

Humble Quest, from Nashville singer Maren Morris, tops our shortlist this week of the best albums out on March 25. Harper Smith/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 25

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Our picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Nashville singer Maren Morris, the Jamaican rapper and singer Koffee, London's Afro-funk group Ibibio Sound Machine, Barrie and more.

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 25

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Wednesday

Records That Changed Our Lives: Defying gatekeepers with 'Uh Huh Her' and Tiger Trap

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Records That Changed Our Lives: Defying gatekeepers with 'Uh Huh Her' and Tiger Trap

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What record changed your life? NPR Music's Turning the Tables, which challenges sexism in the pop music canon, asked writers that question. Every week in March, we're diving into their answers.

Records That Changed Our Lives: Defying gatekeepers with 'Uh Huh Her' and Tiger Trap

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Tuesday

New Mix: Arcade Fire, Valerie June, The Smile, Andrew Bird, more

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New Mix: Arcade Fire, Valerie June, The Smile, Andrew Bird, more

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All Songs host Bob Boilen's mix this week includes the joy of Valerie June, a new project from Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, with Sons Of Kemet's Tom Skinner, called The Smile, and more.

New Mix: Arcade Fire, Valerie June, The Smile, Andrew Bird, more

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Friday

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 18

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New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 18

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Two of the year's most anticipated albums — Rosalía's MOTOMAMI and Charli XCX's CRASH — drop today, along with Johann Johannsson's posthumous Drone Mass, Yumi Zouma's Present Tense and more.

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 18

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