Katie Presley
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For the songwriter's sixth album, she leans into a retro country sound for a big-hearted set of songs about grief and burgeoning love.
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A discussion of two of the most powerful women to shape cultural conversations in recent years, Beyoncé and Solange.
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The San Francisco band's garage-pop progressively unravels as a beautiful duo frolics on the beach.
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Liza Anne cracks open the cage of anxiety she says she's lived in for most of her life with a seething, slow burn of a track.
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From a musician at home in revolution, here is an album about the quiet insurgence of maturity.
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Tagaq, an Inuk throat singer, marries modern pop with deeply-vested tradition to gobsmacking effect. The songs on her new album, Retribution, encompass terror, rage, ecstasy and bone-leeching sadness.
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Bat For Lashes' new concept album, The Bride, plays with the same traditions and symbols that make weddings romantic, to dark and devastating effect.
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A dreamy black and white video for the prettiest and most vulnerable song off the feminist punk band's last album, Time To Go Home.
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PDX guitarist's narrative marriage of a Scottish folk ballad and a Blind Lemon Jefferson blues standard updates the ancient art of music storytelling.
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The NPR Music team shares a few of its favorite work-related tracks in honor of Labor Day.