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After about 25 years together, members of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are “sort of tender with each other," Spencer says.

Jon Spencer Returns To The ‘Brutal And Strange’ World Of The Blues Explosion

Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015 might be the funkiest Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album yet, and it’s…

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Cassette series 'Towson-Glen Arm Freakouts' captures a strange and creative era in music from Baltimore County.

Think Baltimore Music Is Weird? In The ’90s, Towson And Glen Arm Music Was Even Weirder.

Spurred by new, affordable technology, the home-recording boom of the 1980s and ’90s produced some of the most idiosyncratic music…

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Barf Troop is a nonbinary DIY rap collective with a huge fanbase online. Member Babeo Baggins (far right) lives in D.C.

Meet Babeo Baggins Of Barf Troop, The Rap Collective Taking Over The Internet

With a playful but purposeful demeanor, rap collective Barf Troop makes music that’s just as much about the turn up…

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Martin Bisi founded Brooklyn's BC Studio in the early 1980s with Bill Laswell and Brian Eno. He's in D.C. this week.

Avant-Rock Producer Martin Bisi: ‘It Takes More Than A Few Clubs Closing To Kill A Scene’

You might not know his name, but if you’ve kept up with avant-rock music even slightly over the last 30…

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Gliss Riffer is the latest and perhaps most accessible album by electronic knob-twister Dan Deacon.

‘You Have To Be Bored’: Dan Deacon On Creativity

The electronic artist’s new album, Gliss Riffer, is his most accesible yet. In a conversation with Arun Rath, he waxes philosophic on stress, technology and the value of a wandering mind.

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Chain & the Gang at Black Cat, July 27 2014

Ian Svenonius: Modern Pop Music Is ‘The Voice Of Wall Street’

Ian Svenonius is one of D.C.’s most magnetic frontmen. He’s also an admitted rock ‘n’ roll despot. The former vocalist for Nation…

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Rising Producer Chris McClenney: ‘Music Production Is Too Ubiquitous’

Chris McClenney tried out his first instrument around 8 years old, but he didn’t get hooked on music-making till a…

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All Hands is the latest album by the collective Doomtree. Left to right: Paper Tiger, Sims, Cecil Otter, P.O.S, Lazerbeak, Mike Mictlan, Dessa.

Hip-Hop Collective Doomtree On Getting Seven Artists In One Room

The Minneapolis rap crew is back with the album All Hands. NPR’s Arun Rath speaks with members Dessa and P.O.S.

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Dengue Fever's latest album is The Deepest Lake.

Dengue Fever: Retro Pop, Cambodian Style

Brothers Ethan and Zac Holtzman formed Dengue Fever in the late ’90s, inspired by 1960s Cambodian psych-rock. Rachel Martin speaks with them and singer Chhom Nimol about their album, The Deepest Lake.

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AraabMuzik at work.

AraabMuzik: ‘I Have So Much Music, It Doesn’t Make Sense’

The Rhode Island-born producer and DJ tells the story of the father/son talk he once had with Cam’ron, delineates EDM and hip-hop and calls out the whole music industry for being flaky.

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Sleater-Kinney's new album, its first since 2005, is No Cities to Love. Left to right: drummer Janet Weiss, singer-guitarist Corin Tucker, singer-guitarist Carrie Brownstein.

Sleater-Kinney’s Deleted Scenes

The beloved punk trio is back after nearly a decade away. Hear a few candid thoughts from the members about singing, live performance and having famous fans.

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'Led Zeppelin Played Here' tries to crack the mystery of a rumored Led Zeppelin show in Wheaton, Md., in 1969.

Did Led Zeppelin Play A Maryland Youth Center In 1969? Jeff Krulik Thinks So

Long before Led Zeppelin was riding motorcycles through hotel rooms and clothing middle schoolers everywhere, the band played a show…

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Joni Mitchell in 1970.

The Music Midnight Makes: In Conversation With Joni Mitchell

The legendary composer and singer showed up at NPR’s Culver City studios just before the dead of night to talk about her “helium voice,” overcoming polio and painting songs with Bob Dylan.

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"Artist development doesn’t really exist in the industry anymore," SmCity says.

SmCity’s Confident Gambit Into Hip-Hop’s ‘Critical Years’

“I apologize for my lateness/Finalizin’ my greatness” raps Simeon “SmCity” Booker during “Cinematic Moment,” one of the centerpiece tracks on Empire…

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"When I discovered exercise I started getting a lot more done and stopped getting arrested," Torn Hawk says.

Working It Out With Torn Hawk, Ex-D.C. Musician And Weirdo

The Luke Wyatt story stretches from a Virginia college town to Berlin, but some of the 36-year-old musician and video…

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Sleater-Kinney's Janet Weiss (left), Carrie Brownstein (center) and Corin Tucker (right) join All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton to discuss new album No Cities To Love.

Sleater-Kinney 2.0: The Band Talks About Its First Album In 10 Years

Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss join Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton to discuss the band’s new album, No Cities To Love.

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Azealia Banks.

A Rational Conversation: Can The Delayed Album Curse Be Lifted?

If we now know about albums languishing in the clutches of major labels, are they more likely to see the light of day? Will they be any good when they get here?

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El-P (Jaime Meline) and Killer Mike (Michael Render) are Run the Jewels.

Run The Jewels: ‘I’m Taking This Life’

“Me and Mike have managed to find a decent way to express something symbolically that kids need to be able to say simply,” says El-P. “I’m taking it over.”

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Rapper DOOM, Zev Lov X of KMD, performs at the I'll Be Your Mirror festival in London, July 2011.

A Rational Conversation: The 20-Year-Old Album That’s MF DOOM’s Missing Link

New information on an album shelved back in 1994 has become fodder for even more discussions of the shadowy rapper — some focused on his murky origins and others about his plausible impact.

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George Clinton backstage at the Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria, Queens, NYC.

In Conversation With George Clinton

Watch the inimitable funk stalwart sit for not one but two interviews about his work and where it comes from. Along the way, he tells stories about his many decades in the music industry.

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