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The Techno Feminists Next Door

by Michaelangelo Matos

November 6, 2015 • The three founders of the Brooklyn-based all-female DJ collective Discwoman are chipping away at club culture's bro problem.

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The Day Dylan Got It Right

by Don Gonyea

November 6, 2015 • "Like a Rolling Stone" is a classic today, but it flummoxed a young Bob Dylan in the studio. Newly released outtakes reveal where the song started and how it dramatically transformed.

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Carrie Brownstein Isn't Who You Think She Is

by Robin Hilton, Bob Boilen

November 5, 2015 • "I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it," she says.

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Video: A Celebration Of Elvis Presley, From Tom Jones

by Kate Drozynski

November 6, 2015 • Tom Jones pays tribute to his longtime friend with a cover of Gillian Welch's "Elvis Presley Blues."

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PDX guitarist's narrative marriage of a Scottish folk ballad and a Blind Lemon Jefferson blues.

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The British pianist probes melancholy and memories in deceptive music by Valentin Silvestrov.

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Alone In The Universe

Lynne resurrects Electric Light Orchestra with vulnerability and rumpled grace.

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Know It All [Deluxe Edition]

The 19-year-old is ascending pop music's hierarchy by standing strong in herself.

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First Comes The Night

The 59-year-old's tenor has grown rawer, lending his inquiries into heartbreak an air of menace.

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Cool Uncle

What happens when crooner Bobby Caldwell and producer Jack Splash get together? Smooth fireworks!

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Pop Ambient 2016

It may make for a lushly soothing soundtrack, but there's richly varied and revelatory music here.

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My Bubba

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November 6, 2015 • My Bubba is a duo of women whose quirky, delicate, sweetly sung folk songs are a delight.

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November 5, 2015 • Watch the boundary-pushing R&B; singer perform "What's Normal Anyway" live in the studio.

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The Zombies Perform 'Odessey And Oracle' Live

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November 3, 2015 • The British band reunited to play the album that's now rightly considered their career pinnacle in full.

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October 23, 2015 • At the end of the day, like, a song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people and you have no control over that.

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October 27, 2015 • I guess you can hear the old albums now and sort of read them differently, because what I was writing about is sexuality — and repressed sexuality.

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For some listeners in his native Ireland, Conor O'Brien's new album as Villagers has become a soundtrack for the country's referendum on marriage equality. Andrew Whitton/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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November 5, 2015 • Hill may be a rising star of jazz trumpet, but it took a village of mentors, peers and other opportunities to enable him to grow. So Jazz Night went to Chicago to find out where he came from.

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Odesza: Love Songs For A Digital Age

November 6, 2015 • "Electronic music can get really weird," says Clayton Knight, one-half of the ascendant Seattle duo. "And I think we've made it, in some way, more accessible."

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November 5, 2015 • Latin America continues to make an impact on audiences around the world. This is just our first show looking at Latin American cinema.

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November 4, 2015 • Your monthly cliff notes to the best electronic music features new tunes from Ducky, Toxe, Len Leise and more.

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Show Takeover: The Milk Carton Kids

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November 2, 2015 • After tricking hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton into abandoning the studio, the Los Angeles folk duo The Milk Carton Kids commandeer the mic and take over this week's show.

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