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Hosts/nerds Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are your friendly music buddies with the week's best new music discoveries, including conversations with emerging artists, icons and more. Hear songs that can completely change your day, with humor, heart and (sometimes) a whole lot of noise. Directions for use: Morning commute, the gym, or alone time. (If rash persists, discontinue use.)

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 9

Amaarae's new album Fountain Baby tops our shortlist of the best new albums out on June 9. Josh Croll/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 9

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Amaarae, Janelle Monáe, King Krule, Keaton Henson and more.

New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 9

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Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Eduardo Cabra, Santa Fe Klan and Elsa y Elmar

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Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Eduardo Cabra, Santa Fe Klan and Elsa y Elmar

This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite music from the last few months, including new work from the prolific Eduardo Cabra, surprisingly straight-ahead regional from Santa Fe Klan and a premiere of a new song from Elsa y Elmar.

Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Eduardo Cabra, Santa Fe Klan and Elsa y Elmar

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Viking's Choice: Anjimile, High Rise, Fatoumata Diawara, more

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Viking's Choice: Anjimile, High Rise, Fatoumata Diawara, more

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music's Lars Gotrich share their favorite new tracks including new music from the Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, the Swedish ambient rock artist SOLE and more.

Viking's Choice: Anjimile, High Rise, Fatoumata Diawara, more

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 2

Ben Folds' first solo album in 15 years, What Matters Most, is on our shortlist of the best releases out on June 2. Alysse Gafkjen/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 2

Hear the powerfully poetic Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? from McKinley Dixon, a scorcher from Bully, Aisha Badru's Learning to Love Again, the first new solo album in 15 years from Ben Folds and more.

New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 2

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How the 'scarcity mindset' enforces the unwritten rules of rap

Over the last nine episodes, Louder Than A Riot has tackled the unwritten rules of rap that hold the whole culture back. For the show's finale, we dig into the root of all those rules: the scarcity mindset. It's the belief that access and resources are so limited for those marginalized in hip-hop that you have to fight tooth and nail for them, and that only one can make it to the top at a time.

How the 'scarcity mindset' enforces the unwritten rules of rap

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Remembering Tina Turner

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Remembering Tina Turner

Our friends at Pop Culture Happy Hour remember the legendary Tina Turner, who died last week at the age of 83, leaving behind an indelible legacy that spanned decades across the music world, the stage, and the screen.

Remembering Tina Turner

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 26

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 26

The best albums out this week include Lil Durk's Almost Healed, reflections on surviving your 20s from Arlo Parks and Miya Folick, Gia Margaret's Romantic Piano, a new Kassa Overall project and more.

New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 26

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Like poppa, like son: Rodney Carmichael

On this episode of Louder Than A Riot, something a little different: It's part meditation, part conversation — between host Rodney Carmichael and writers Kiese Laymon and Jamilah Lemieux — about beats, rhymes and life. For Rodney, interrogating misogynoir in hip-hop means confronting some hard questions — as a man, and especially as a father. As Rodney thinks about raising the next generation without replicating his mistakes, he's looking more closely at how hip-hop shaped his definition of masculinity.

Like poppa, like son: Rodney Carmichael

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In conversation: Cellist Mabe Fratti on embracing imperfections and going to extremes

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In conversation: Cellist Mabe Fratti on embracing imperfections and going to extremes

Alt.Latino host Anamaria Sayre sits down with the experimental, Guatemalan cellist Mabe Fratti to discuss the admiration she's developed for imperfection, finding a musical community in Mexico City and how religion sparked a personal rebellion.

In conversation: Cellist Mabe Fratti on embracing imperfections and going to extremes

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New Mix: Tiny Desk Contest winner Little Moon, ANOHNI, yeule and more

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New Mix: Tiny Desk Contest winner Little Moon, ANOHNI, yeule and more

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music editor Hazel Cills share their favorite new tracks of the week and highlight this year's new Tiny Desk Contest winner, the Springville, Utah, band Little Moon.

New Mix: Tiny Desk Contest winner Little Moon, ANOHNI, yeule and more

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