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Greg Dulli at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City Wednesday night.

May 25, 2012 After a decade away, the band's songs of intense, complicated desire still lay our reality bare.

Big K.R.I.T.

May 25, 2012 Female-soul backup and defiant pride are also part of the Mississippi rapper's appeal.

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James Burton: The Early Years

May 25, 2012 Rock historian Ed Ward shares the story of guitarist James Burton, who backed many famous artists.

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Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman star in Wes Anderson's latest film, Moonrise Kingdom.

May 24, 2012 Randall Poster selects the music used in Anderson's films, as well as many TV shows.

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Electronic music producer and DJ Monty Luke, who will perform at the Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit on Monday.

May 25, 2012 This weekend, Detroit's Movement festival will feature sounds from across the dance music spectrum.

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The author in the pit.

May 24, 2012 Who listens to metal? Engineers and government employees who wear leather in 85-degree weather.

"Given that we were brass players when we started out, we had a very tall hill to climb just to get people interested in our music," says Canadian Brass founding member Chuck Daellenbach (center).

The decades-old group incorporates classics, Dixieland, jazz and Broadway into its repertoire.

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Hope in Dirt City is the third album by Cadence Weapon, the performing name of Canadian poet Rollie Pemberton.

May 26, 2012 Once the poet laureate of his Alberta hometown, Rollie Pemberton is three albums into a rap career.

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In this promotional image of the band James Farm, Joshua Redman is second from left, and Aaron Parks is to his left.

May 25, 2012 The saxophonist performs a piece by his contemporary — a practice much rarer than you might think.

Russia's singing group Buranovskiye Babushki hold their national flag as they celebrate making it through to the Eurovision final on May 22 with Moldova's entrant, Pasha Parfeny (left), and his dancers.

May 25, 2012 Six grandmothers, a half-Congolese Ukrainian singer and more are competing in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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