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Watch Big Songs, Big Hype (Oh Yeah, They're Women)
May 4, 2013 – Three hyped new bands have little in common, except being led by women. How important is that?

Watch 'A Truth Never Told': Remembering Slayer's Jeff Hanneman
May 3, 2013 – The guitarist channeled darkness into the sound of a band that exemplifies pain.

Watch Justin Timberlake And The AC/DC Rule
April 5, 2013 – What the career of the Australian classic rockers teaches us about the latest blockbuster album.

Listen The Rolling Stones And Hyde Park In 1969
April 4, 2013 – The Stones last played the park in 1969, just two days after the death of the band's guitarist.

Watch Metz: NPR Front Row
April 3, 2013 – Watch the noise-rock trio tear it up at the 2013 South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.

Watch Mark Lanegan: A Secret Rock Star Still Shines Darkly
April 2, 2013 – Still best known as the singer for grunge-era group Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan has stayed busy.

Watch Remembering Paul Williams, Founder Of Rock Magazine 'Crawdaddy!'
March 30, 2013 – Paul Williams started the first American rock magazine as a college student in 1966.

Watch Depeche Mode: A Dark And Steady 'Machine' KCRW
March 25, 2013 – After 30 years together, Depeche Mode will release its 13th album, the seductive Delta Machine. KCRW

Read Lessons From SXSW 2013: Take The Middle Road
March 19, 2013 – Big names and Next Big Things dominate SXSW, but acts between those poles interest Ann Powers more.

Watch Stevie Nicks: 'When We Walk Into The Room, We Have To Float In Like Goddesses'
March 17, 2013 – The Fleetwood Mac singer tells Ann Powers her lessons from a life at the peak of the music industry.

Read The Ale That Men Brew: Iron Maiden Serves Up A Beer
March 13, 2013 – Three decades after giving the world The Number of the Beast, Iron Maiden is set to release a beer.

Read Why I'm Not Going To SXSW This Year
March 5, 2013 – In the showdown between fledgling bands and industry excess, one SXSW fan reaches a breaking point.

Watch How One Band Turned A Ghost Town Into A Giant Recording Studio
March 4, 2013 – The Danish band Efterklang literally went to the ends of the earth to make its album Piramida.

Watch David Bowie, Rock's Shape Shifter, Returns
March 1, 2013 – After 10 years away, Bowie's new album, The Next Day, proves he's a perfect pop star for any era.

Watch How A Studio Changes Your Sound
February 28, 2013 – One recording studio in Brooklyn made a big difference on the sounds of two recent albums.



