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LL Cool J's 2024 album The FORCE finds the rapper looser and more agile than he's sounded in years, assisted by eclectic production from Q-Tip. Cory Grimes hide caption
Following her death, SOPHIE's family says she left behind a collection of hundreds of unreleased songs, as well as a follow-up album to her debut. But the album wasn’t finished. James Bentley for NPR hide caption
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Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's opera The Listeners premiered Wednesday night in Philadelphia. Steven Pisano/Courtesy of Opera Philadelphia hide caption
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Young Thug (left) and Rich Homie Quan perform during the 2014 BET Hip Hop Awards at Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center in Atlanta, Ga. Brad Barket/BET/Getty Images for BET hide caption
Woodland, the new album by Gillian Welch (left) and David Rawlings, is the latest in a long collaboration between two musicians who have built careers — and an influential legacy — out of the magnetic interplay between their voices and the strength of their musical ideas. Alysse Gafkjen/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Doechii channels a panoramic relationship to her own thoughts and voice on the new mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal. John Jay hide caption
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Kacey Musgraves says a past boyfriend helped her become more accepting
Gucci Mane in July, performing at the 2024 Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia. Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images Europe hide caption
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Quantum Baby is Tinashe's seventh album, and the second in a purported trilogy that began with last year's BB/ANG3L. Raven B. Varona hide caption
On Nick Cave's his latest album, Wild God, out Aug. 30, the fragility of his recent recordings has evolved into a cathartic emotional and musical power that bursts out of the songs. Illustration by Jackie Lay/Photo courtesy of the artist hide caption
Just shy of a decade after debuting in hip-hop, Post Malone completes a long-gestating country turn with the new album F-1 Trillion. Photos by Randy Shropshire/Brett Carlsen/Getty Images/Illustration by Jackie Lay hide caption
Isata Kanneh-Mason's new album features music by brother and sister Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. Karolina Wielocha/Decca Classics hide caption
JPEGMAFIA performs in 2023 at The Rooftop at Pier 17 in New York City. Keeyahtay Lewis on behalf of The Rooftop at Pier 17 hide caption
Oleh Kuznetsov, who goes by B-boy Kuzya, performs the freeze element, freezing for a few seconds in unusual and extremely difficult positions. Anna Gondek-Grodkiewicz for NPR hide caption
In 2023, after two decades in the rap game, Killer Mike turned a page in his career with the highly autobiographical album Michael, which won him multiple trophies at the Grammy Awards, where he was arrested backstage. On his new follow-up, Songs for Sinners and Saints, he reworks several songs from Michael by reaching even deeper back into the church music of his childhood. Andrew Clifton/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
The Afghan Youth Orchestra with its founder, Ahmad Sarmast. Courtesy of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music hide caption