Lyndsey McKenna
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Let Me Do One More, the latest from songwriter, engineer and producer Sarah Tudzin, is proof that ambition doesn't have to be serious and that moments of vulnerability can also make for hooky rippers.
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Shared Thursday morning ahead of two sold-out shows at New York's Mercury Lounge, "Weights," which will be released on a forthcoming deluxe edition of Live Forever, is all kinetic energy.
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How do you follow up the domestic bliss of Golden Hour when real life doesn't go according to the narrative? Musgraves offers an answer in the form of "star-crossed," the title track of her new album.
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On "u v v p," Sarah Tudzin dials down the energy and seeks inspiration in surf rock sounds. Featuring Buck Meek on the outro, it paints a cowpoke portrait of a Western rambler.
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From a sun-drenched spot outside Electric Lady Studios, Jack Antonoff and company perform intimate revisions of songs from their forthcoming album, Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night.
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With chemistry and camaraderie in abundance, Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, and Jon Randall extend an honorary invitation into their world.
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For their first-ever full-band Tiny Desk appearance, The Hold Steady squeezed behind a cramped backstage corner of the Brooklyn Bowl.
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John and T.J. Osborne turn up the intensity in a Tiny Desk quarantine set that features music from the duo's 2020 album, Skeletons.
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Ahead of its surprise release, Swift referred to the album as folklore's sister record on social media. "To put it plainly, we just couldn't stop writing songs," she said.
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Simpson's latest surprise release features reinterpretation of tracks from 2016's A Sailor's Guide to Earth, plus a previously unreleased cut co-written by Merle Haggard.
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Our list of the week's best albums includes spiky and inventive punk from The Regrettes, sweetly reflective folk from Fionn Regan, the return of Ra Ra Riot and more.
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What will be the definitive song of summer 2019? NPR's Michel Martin invites Stephen Thompson and Lyndsey McKenna of NPR Music to share their picks.