Mike Katzif
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Following the dissolution of their marriage and band, Exitmusic's Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church unleash a gorgeous if haunting storm of images and sound.
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The first single from Sophie Allison's forthcoming album Clean is both a post-breakup kiss-off and an anthem demanding respect and agency.
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With a woozy hook that's as dissonant as it is catchy, the Philadelphia band's new song mixes the pretty with the messy.
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With just a keyboard and a microphone, the singer takes to a rowboat in the lightly choppy waters off Far Rockaway, Queens, to perform his song "No Other Heart."
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Conor Oberst's music has rarely felt this jarring, raw and immediate. Watch his recently re-formed punk band put on an exhilarating, fist-pumping show at Brooklyn's Shea Stadium.
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In the Boston band's surreal new video, a mansion caretaker's isolation gives way to paranoia as "Torturer" builds through waves of noisy outbursts.
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Watch a new slow-motion video for one of They Want My Soul's best songs, directed by the production team LeBlanc + Cudmore.
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Just as we hit that glorious "magic hour" where the sun begins to glow off its members' long golden hair, Bleached performs "Electric Chair" at a food-truck parking lot off a highway in Austin, Texas.
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The songs of Exitmusic are so romantically rich, they could envelop a cavernous hall. Luckily, the band didn't defang its cinematic power and anguish in the intimate confines of the NPR Music offices.
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What's Going On was an instant classic, as well as one of the most influential records from a passionate and enduring icon. Read NPR staff members' reflections on its legacy.