Watch Jim James and his band perform songs from The Waterfall live during a special First Listen Live concert from Mack Sennett Studios in Los Angeles, presented by KCRW.
Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes gets into it during the band's show in Los Angeles on Monday, April 20.
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Watch Brittany Howard and her crew perform a First Listen Live of their new album, Sound & Color, for a small crowd of KCRW fans at Apogee Studio in Los Angeles.
Shamir performed songs from his upcoming album, Ratchet, at NPR Music's SXSW showcase at Stubb's on Wednesday, March 18, 2015.
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Sporting a Yo Gabba Gabba T-shirt, Shamir clearly came to have a blast at our SXSW showcase. Watch him perform three songs from his upcoming album, Ratchet.
Rodney Crowell performs at the 2014 Americana Music Awards.
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Browne reaches back into his formidable catalog to perform a song from 1974's Late For The Sky — and proves he hasn't lost his touch in the decades since it was released.
TV On The Radio headlined NPR Music's SXSW showcase at Stubb's on Wednesday, March 18, 2015.
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Wonderfully inventive and from-the-gut accessible, TV On The Radio showed off the soulful, genre-smashing sound that it has sharpened over the last dozen years at our showcase at SXSW.
