Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey
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If Adrianne Lenker's unequivocal, instinctive and deeply personal songs ring true to life, it may be because they're true to hers.
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Before her show at New York's PUBLIC ARTS venue, the rising R&B star played a stripped-down version of the title track of her debut record for our Night Owl series.
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U2 unveils the latest from Songs of Experience-- a characteristically buoyant, but worryingly saccharine, cut of shivering guitar, bass punch and end-times reckoning.
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On the first single from Roll With The Punches, Morrison gives us soaring bit of classic roots-soul, and his best outing in recent years.
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The country-rock band is committed to the sound of brotherhood — a few voices sharing a feeling. Nowhere is that clearer than on this tender ballad.
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In a Manhattan studio, some of the musicians behind Planetarium play the album's beautiful closing track.
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"First it sounds and then it means," Adrianne Lenker tells NPR of the piano ballad. "That song feels like crying and laughing at the same time."
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This band is as tight as it gets.
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Thomas turns the Van Morrison classic into pure NOLA R&B, emphasizing the wonderful impracticality of unconditional love.
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There is only one Tiny Desk Contest winner, but there were so many incredible musicians who entered this year. Here are 10 we loved.