NPR Music celebrates 15 years with Cimafunk, Bartees Strange, Leikeli47, and Cory Henry at 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. on November 28, 2022. (Eric Lee for NPR) Eric Lee/Eric Lee for NPR hide caption
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Yaya Bey's latest, Remember Your North Star, tops this week's shortlist of the best albums out on June 17. Lawrence Agyei hide caption
Bartees Strange plays a Tiny Desk (home) concert. NPR hide caption
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Bartees Strange on World Cafe
Alto saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins is one of our Slingshot artists to watch in 2021. Dana Scruggs hide caption
"These songs make sense because I'm Black and because my voice ties these songs together," Bartees Strange says of Live Forever. "My legacy, my history, my ancestry ties this together." Julia Leiby/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Clockwise from upper left: Bartees Strange, Kelly Lee Owens, Bright Eyes, Victoria Monét. Courtesy of the artists hide caption