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If the experimental, idiosyncratic filmmaker Jim Jarmusch formed a band, what kind of music would it play? On this episode of All Songs Considered, you can hear the answer with a new song and EP from the group Jarmusch calls SQÜRL.
Also on the show: Remarkable new electronic music from Baths; the atmospheric English pop trio Daughter; beautiful, ramshackle pop from singer Sam Phillips; power punk and a healthy dose of humor from The Front Bottoms and the melodic and transfixing rock of Lemuria.
All Songs Considered is dishing out the good stuff today.
Before the new year’s hype cycle takes over, here are ten albums you don’t want to overlook in 2013.
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NPR: Help Pick The Greatest Jazz Vocals Of All Time
npr: Our partners at Jazz24 — that’s the Internet jazz radio service from Seattle-Tacoma’s KPLU — are making a list of the 50 Quintessential Jazz Vocals of All Time. They’ll create an online stream from the results, and they’re looking for your help. Vote for up to three of your top picks via a…
Alt.Latino celebrates the music that rocked its world in 2012 — from a Colombian electronic journey to a Chilean rap masterpiece and a Mexican film soundtrack that left us breathless.
From Folk Alley, discover the 10 best folk and roots music albums of the year, from quiet acoustic solo records to stomping shout-alongs, focused on community, elements of ancestry and stories that unite us.
Discover NPR Music’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2012, from Astro to Wadada Leo Smith, Fiona Apple to Frank Ocean.
Get to know the Brazilian artistic movement of Tropicália in a 12-song playlist from World Cafe’s Latin Roots series.
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A group is trying to save the station’s massive tape archive: music, poetry, drama andspeeches that tell the story of the East African nation since before its independence.
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Celebrate Halloween with a special stream of spooky folk music from Folk Alley, including ghost stories, murder ballads and gory tales.
Photo: The National Archives UK via Flickr
Peek behind the curtain at the final rehearsal before Talking Heads’ David Byrne and St. Vincent’s Annie Clark took their collaborative album, Love This Giant, out on the road — complete with eccentric choreographed dance moves and an eight-piece horn section.
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