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We Asked For It: Songs You Wish Were On 'Glee'

You guys sure had a lot of song suggestions for Kurt. (We think he's awesome, too.) Matthias Clamer/Fox hide caption

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Music Lists

We Asked For It: Songs You Wish Were On 'Glee'

We can already tell that the rest of Glee's first season is going to be fall-down ridiculous. Now that we've got some basic story lines, we're ready to pass some more song suggestions along to creator Ryan Murphy. We've highlighted some of the best user suggestions here.

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All Songs Considered Listeners Pick The Best Music Of 2009

The Best Music Of 2009

All Songs Considered Listeners Pick The Best Music Of 2009

We could tell early on that 2009 was going to be an outstanding year for music. Here are the top 25, as selected by All Songs Considered listeners.

All Songs Considered Listeners Pick The Best Music Of 2009

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Review

Music Reviews

Dirty Projectors: Balancing Head And Heart

The experimental rock band based in New York draws on early vocal music, modern soul and other sources, defying categorization in the process. According to critic Will Hermes, the band's new album, Bitte Orca, is a breakthrough.

Dirty Projectors: Balancing Head And Heart

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Live in Concert

'Dark Was The Night' From Radio City Music Hall

In a year of great music, the Dark Was the Night compilation ranks near the top. Now comes Dark Was the Night: The Concert, a truly mammoth undertaking. Members of The National curated the May 3 event to benefit AIDS research with performances by David Byrne, The Dirty Projectors, Feist, Bon Iver, Sharon Jones and My Brightest Diamond.

'Dark Was The Night' From Radio City Music Hall

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SXSW 2009: Dirty Projectors

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SXSW Music Festival

SXSW 2009: Dirty Projectors

David Longstreth, the visionary behind Dirty Projectors, has a knack for deconstructing music and then reassembling it with distinct guitar-and-vocal arrangements.

SXSW 2009: Dirty Projectors

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Bryant Park Project Video

BPP Jukebox: Dust Off the Dirty Projectors

We put a quarter in the BPP Jukebox, and out came this single from the Dirty Projectors, the band that reworked Black Flag's punk classic, Damaged.

BPP Jukebox: Dust Off the Dirty Projectors

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Review

Song Of The Day

Remaking a Punk Classic from Memory

Dirty Projectors' songs mix controlled cacophony and catchy melody. Those extremes dominate the band's new Rise Above, on which it attempts to reconstruct and remake Black Flag's 1981 album Damaged.

'Rise Above' by The Dirty Projectors

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