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February 22, 2018 • From making songs as a hobby to getting millions of streams on Spotify and performing on national TV, the LA by way of Philly band shares its story.

Mt. Joy On World Cafe

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First Listen: Camp Cope, 'How To Socialise & Make Friends'

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First Listen: Camp Cope, 'How To Socialise & Make Friends'

February 22, 2018 • The Melbourne rock trio's new record walks confidently through difficult topics, often with an emotional tug in its wake.

How To Socialise & Make Friends

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Soccer Mommy's Clean comes out March 2 on Fat Possum Records. Shervin Lainez/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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First Listen: Soccer Mommy, 'Clean'

February 22, 2018 • Nashville songwriter Sophie Allison is just 20 years old, but her songs exude a world-weary wisdom.

Clean

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First Listen: Jonathan Wilson, 'Rare Birds'

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First Listen: Jonathan Wilson, 'Rare Birds'

February 22, 2018 • Wilson is a student of rock and pop in all its forms, and Rare Birds is his finest album yet.

Rare Birds

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February 21, 2018 • The Irishman joins us at Reservoir Studios in New York City to perform songs from his new album, Between Two Shores.

Glen Hansard On World Cafe

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Speedy Ortiz Faces The Blob In 'Lucky 88'

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Speedy Ortiz Faces The Blob In 'Lucky 88'

February 21, 2018 • Sadie Dupuis' venom-laced wit floats to the surface in the first single from Speedy Ortiz's forthcoming album Twerp Verse.

Punk Trio Screaming Females Continues To Evolve With The Poppy 'I'll Make You Sorry'

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Punk Trio Screaming Females Continues To Evolve With The Poppy 'I'll Make You Sorry'

February 21, 2018 • Lance Bangs directs the video for the New Jersey trio's endlessly hummable punk-bop catharsis.

New Mix: Courtney Barnett, Exitmusic, Okkervil River, More

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New Mix: Courtney Barnett, Exitmusic, Okkervil River, More

February 20, 2018 • This week's essential mix features new solo music from Courtney Barnett, the long-awaited return of Exitmusic, a weighty epic from Swedish organist Anna von Hausswolff and more.

New Mix: Courtney Barnett, Exitmusic, Okkervil River, More

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Remember The Band Sports? Guess What. Now It's Remember Sports

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Remember The Band Sports? Guess What. Now It's Remember Sports

February 20, 2018 • After a location and name change, Remember Sports has re-emerged as a pop-punk band that'll be hard to forget. Hear the first single from Slow Buzz, out May 18.

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February 20, 2018 • A raw, rare guitarist that stops you in your tracks. Hear the Los Angeles-based artist live in the World Cafe studio.

Sunny War On World Cafe

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World Cafe Nashville: Idle Bloom

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February 19, 2018 • Its roots are in the all-ages punk scene, but the band has evolved into one of the city's most musically compelling and lyrically insightful ensembles.

World Cafe Nashville: Idle Bloom

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First Listen: Turnstile, 'Time & Space'

February 19, 2018 • Turnstile leans into its psychedelic tendencies, turning the turnt-up hardcore band into a lush studio experiment.

Time & Space

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Watch St. Vincent Perform 'New York' Live In The Studio

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February 15, 2018 • Watch Annie Clark perform an acoustic version of her aching ballad "New York" from the acclaimed album Masseduction.

Field Music Unleashes A Howl Of Synth-Pop Rage In 'Count It Up'

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Field Music Unleashes A Howl Of Synth-Pop Rage In 'Count It Up'

February 15, 2018 • The inventive U.K. band writes about the many ways in which the world can seem like more of a meritocracy than it is.

Courtney Barnett Announces New Album With A Collage Video For 'Nameless, Faceless'

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Courtney Barnett Announces New Album With A Collage Video For 'Nameless, Faceless'

February 15, 2018 • Quoting Margaret Atwood, Barnett has a few cutting words to men cowering behind keyboards. Tell Me How You Really Feel comes out May 18.

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Beach House's Newest, 'Lemon Glow,' Keeps It Blissful

February 15, 2018 • The Baltimore duo announces its forthcoming new album with a typically beguiling and narcotizing new track.

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First Listen: Caroline Rose, 'LONER'

February 15, 2018 • The singer-songwriter embraces casual irreverence and power-pop melodies on her infectious new album.

First Listen: Caroline Rose, 'LONER'

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'70s Rockers Fanny Are Back With A New Album And New Stage Name

"All those years of life experience, time on our instruments, having shared our history together and apart, led to the stories written about on this record," says Brie Howard. Marita Madeloni /Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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'70s Rockers Fanny Are Back With A New Album And New Stage Name

February 14, 2018 • Fanny is one of music's lost legendary entities, often invoked but seldom playlisted. The band's first song in 44 years conveys the same effervescent spirit.

Drowse's 'Klonopin' Soundtracks A Heavy Dose

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Drowse's 'Klonopin' Soundtracks A Heavy Dose

February 14, 2018 • Steeped in detuned guitars and iridescent noise, Drowse sounds like an intimate Mount Eerie home recording overdubbed with a worn-out cassette of The Cure's Disintegration.

Loma's Debut Album Marks Both A Beginning And An End

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Loma's Debut Album Marks Both A Beginning And An End

February 14, 2018 • The trio and its first album are the product of two bands joining forces — but the creation of something new often requires the sacrifice of something known.

Loma's Debut Album Marks Both A Beginning And An End

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69 Love Songs From World Cafe

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February 13, 2018 • You would think that people would've had enough of silly love songs? Not a chance. Hear our playlist modeled after The Magnetic Fields' classic album.

Bambara's Western Gothic Opus, 'Shadow On Everything,' Comes To Life

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Bambara's Western Gothic Opus, 'Shadow On Everything,' Comes To Life

February 13, 2018 • The Brooklyn trio's post-punk has always had a sleek sort of menace to it, now set to a dark, twangy rumble.

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Mt. Joy On World Cafe

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How To Socialise & Make Friends

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Clean

Buy Featured Music

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Rare Birds

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Glen Hansard On World Cafe

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New Mix: Courtney Barnett, Exitmusic, Okkervil River, More

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02Up From Below

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Sunny War On World Cafe

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World Cafe Nashville: Idle Bloom

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Time & Space

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First Listen: Caroline Rose, 'LONER'

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Loma's Debut Album Marks Both A Beginning And An End

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