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NPR's favorite music of June, from salty joy to heart-wrenching slow jams

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NPR's favorite music of June, from salty joy to heart-wrenching slow jams

July 1, 2022 • June brought us The Suffers' socially conscious party music, Saya Gray's headphones-worthy debut, GIVĒON's R&B ballads, Regina Spektor's elaborate songwriting and Petrol Girls' amped-up punk.

NPR's favorite music of June, from salty joy to heart-wrenching slow jams

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Petrol Girls, 'Baby, I Had An Abortion'

February 11, 2022 • An unapologetic party-punk raver for the abortion rights movement.

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The Austin 100: Petrol Girls

March 17, 2020 • Petrol Girls' sonic intensity is barely contained by the boundaries of a single song; the band's rage at corrupt and exploitative systems is never contained, period

Terrestrial Doom: 30 Songs For Our Age Of Anxiety

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Best Music Of 2019

Terrestrial Doom: 30 Songs For Our Age Of Anxiety

December 11, 2019 • This year-end playlist showcases the music that best captured 2019's ever-wary mood, presented here in three 10-song movements of personal anxiety, global dread and moral resolution.

Best Songs Of 2019 (So Far): Lizzo To Zach Fox

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Best Music Of 2019

Best Songs Of 2019 (So Far): Lizzo To Zach Fox

June 26, 2019 • There's no one sound to a year, but public radio writers across the country do set their ears to the most essential music. We asked them: What is your favorite song of 2019 so far?

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Best Music Of 2019

NPR Music's Top 15 Albums From May

June 3, 2019 • From Tyler, the Creator's lovesick turn to Jamila Wood's funky second album, May had a ridiculous amount of stellar music to offer just before summer arrives.

Scream And Grow With Petrol Girls' Raging 'Cut & Stitch'

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Scream And Grow With Petrol Girls' Raging 'Cut & Stitch'

May 16, 2019 • These are songs that rip through time, across borders and into psyches with feminist post-hardcore that engages at it rampages.

Petrol Girls' Raging Post-Hardcore Turns Tender For 'Sister'

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Petrol Girls' Raging Post-Hardcore Turns Tender For 'Sister'

August 14, 2018 • The London post-hardcore band finds strength in sisterhood on a new single from its forthcoming EP, The Future is Dark.

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Songs That Say 'Me Too'

October 17, 2017 • Women have posted the phrase on social media to raise awareness of sexual assault, abuse, and harassment. Here is a list of songs in which artists said "me too."

Songs That Say 'Me Too'

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