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Best Music Of 2023

The 50 Best Albums of 2023

December 5, 2023 • The album's not dead! Want proof? NPR Music's list of the best albums of 2023 features masterworks by veterans, newcomers, iconoclasts and at least one supergroup.

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July 6, 2023 • The North Carolina band Wednesday performs songs off their critically acclaimed record, Rat Saw God.

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 7

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 7

April 7, 2023 • Our favorite new releases for April 7, 2023, include:

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Wednesday's 'Rat Saw God' is fearlessly, chaotically, grimly American

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Wednesday's 'Rat Saw God' is fearlessly, chaotically, grimly American

April 6, 2023 • The Asheville, N.C., band's new album blends country and shoegaze influences in a thrilling set of songs that capture youthful debauchery and local lore against a backdrop of strip malls and highways.

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Slingshot's 2023 Artists to Watch

January 28, 2023 • Public radio hosts chime in on what artists are up for a big break in 2023.

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Wednesday, 'Chosen to Deserve'

January 18, 2023 • The band channels a country-rock sound that lends a wistful sweetness to Karly Hartzman's admissions of youthful recklessness.

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Wednesday, 'Bull Believer'

September 9, 2022 • The Asheville indie-rock band's eight-and-a-half-minute track snarls with explosive guitar and distorted lap steel.

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Wednesday, 'She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)'

February 23, 2022 • The Asheville, N.C., band processes the honky-tonk staple through indie-rock fuzz for a truly original reimagining.

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Wednesday, 'Cliff'

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September 2, 2021 • This song, like so much of Wednesday's newest album Twin Plagues, is about the sting of realizing in hindsight that your childhood was less stable than you understood.

New Music Friday: The Top 7 Albums Out On Aug. 13

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New Music Friday: The Top 7 Albums Out On Aug. 13

August 13, 2021 • Black Thought guests on a new one from the British duo Jungle, The Killers' Pressure Machine documents the hopes and horrors of rural America, Boldy James & The Alchemist team up again and more.

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New Mix: Jay Som, Moon Hooch, Ada Lea, More

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New Mix: Jay Som, Moon Hooch, Ada Lea, More

February 25, 2020 • This week's must-hear mix includes the mind-blowing sax band Moon Hooch, guitarist-singer Jay Som, whose latest builds to a fever pitch, and new discoveries from Wednesday, Momma and more.

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