In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL, the BBC will present “THE GLASTONBURY EXPERIENCE.” The event will play five days of highlights and sets from … more

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This week's new mix from All Songs Considered is all cover tunes, featuring musicians we love paying tribute to artists they love.

1. Jay Som "Lucy" from Soccer Mommy & Friends Singles Series
2. Soccer Mommy "I Think You're Alright" from Soccer Mommy & Friends Singles Series
3. Margaret Glaspy "Mythological Beauty"
4. Lucy Dacus "Tom Courtenay"
5. Sharon Van Etten "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? [feat. Josh Homme]"
6 Caroline Spence "The Middle"
7. Palehound "Something On Your Mind"
8. Joseph Shabason "Gymnopedia No. 1"

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The best albums out this week include The 1975's sprawling masterpiece, Notes On A Conditional Form, the return of Indigo Girls, The Airborne Toxic Event, the rapper Gunna and more.

Featured Albums:
1. The 1975 — Notes On A Conditional Form
Featured Songs: "Me & You Together Song," "The 1975," "People," "The End (Music For Cars)" and "Frail State of Mind"
2. Indigo Girls — Look Long
Featured Song: "Country Radio"
3. Owen Pallett — Island
Featured Song: "A Bloody Morning"
4. The Airborne Toxic Event — Hollywood Park
Featured Song: "Hollywood Park"
5. Gunna — Wunna
Featured Song: "Dollaz On My Head"
6. Katie Von Schleicher — Consummation
Featured Song: "Nowhere"

Other notable releases for May 22: Badly Drawn Boy — Banana Skin Shoes; Kota the Friend — Everything; Neil Innes — How Sweet to Be An Idiot; The Philip Glass Ensemble — Music In 8 Parts; Steve Earle and the Dukes — Ghosts of West Virginia; Various — I Still Play; Woods — Strange to Explain.

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BOTTLEROCK NAPA VALLEY, the music festival traditionally held on MEMORIAL DAY weekend as “The First Taste of Summer," will kick off (re)LIVE BOTTLEROCK, a weekly virtual series of … more

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Do you consider yourself a guru of Jazz Fest? Here is a quiz on the Fest, see how many answers you can correctly answer.

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, often known as Jazz Fest, is an annual celebration of the music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana. The term "Jazz Fest" also refers to the days surrounding the festival and the many shows at unaffiliated New Orleans nightclubs scheduled during the festival weekends.

Are you a Jazz Fest guru?

At a time when every day can feel the same, on this week's All Songs Considered you can meet someone new, with a mix of memorable music discoveries.

1. Muzz: "Red Western Sky" from Muzz
2. Liza Anne: "Bad Vacation" from Bad Vacation
3. Katie Von Schleicher "Brutality" from Consummation
4. Lou Canon "M.O.T.R." from Audomatic Body
5. Trespassers William "Winterstorms"
6. Asher Gamedze "Siyabulela" from Dialectic Soul

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Charli XCX's how i'm feeling now made entirely while quarantined, leads our shortlist of the week's best new albums, along with Jason Isbell, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Perfume Genius and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Charli XCX — how i'm feeling now
Featured Song: "I Finally Understand"
2. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down — Temple
Featured Song: "Pure Cinema"
3. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit — Reunions
Featured Song: "Be Afraid"
4. Mourning [A] BLKstar — The Cylce
Featured Song: "If I Can If I May"
5. The Magnetic Fields — Quickies
Featured Song: "My Stupid Boyfriend"
6. Perfume Genius — Set My Heart On Fire Immediately
Featured Songs: "Moonbend" and "Describe"
7. Nick Hakim — Will This Make Me Good?
Featured Song: "All These Changes"
8. Jonah Mutono — GERG
Featured Song: "The Low"

Other notable releases for May 15: Emily Wells — In The Dark Moving; Future — High Off Life; Jess Williamson — Sorceress; Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Mosaic of Transformation; Kamasi Washington — Becoming; Maita — Best Wishes; Moby — All Visible Objects; Moses Sumney — Græ pt. 2; Noah Cyrus — The End of Everything; Porcelain Raft — Come Rain; Yung Lean — Starz

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On this edition of All Songs Considered, we take a musical journey honoring the genius of Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider, who died May 6, just a few days after turning 73.

The German electronic band was like no other in the 1970s, with their pulsing electronic music and songs about the intersection of man and machines. Music writer Geeta Dayal and I play the band's career-defining songs from this group, a foursome that influenced everyone from David Bowie to Prince and '80s new wave while laying the groundwork for electronica and EDM.

1. "Autobahn" from Autobahn (1974)
2. "Radioactivity" from Radio-Activity (1975)
3. "Trans-Europe Express" from Trans-Europe Express (1977)
4. "Neon Lights" from The Man-Machine (1978)
5. "Computer World" from Computer World (1981)
6. "Tour de France" single (1983)


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On this special edition of All Songs Considered, we look back at the life of rock and roll pioneer Little Richard through 10 of the defining songs of his career.

NPR Music Senior Director Lauren Onkey joins host Bob Boilen as they play singles from the early '50s up through his 1970 album, The Rill Thing.

1. "Tutti Frutti" (1955)
2. "Long Tall Sally (The Thing)" (1956)
3. "Get Rich Quick" (1952)
4. "Slippin' and Slidin' (Peepin' and Hidin')" (1956)
5. "The Girl Can't Help It" (1956)
6. "Lucille" (1957)
7. "Keep A Knockin' " (1957)
8. "Every Time I Feel The Spirit" (1960)
9. "I Don't Know What You've Got" (1965)
10. "Freedom Blues" (1970)

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Festivals in the future are going to be a bit different. More space. Sanitizers. Clean toilets.

And when you think of a music fest, there will always be the group who ride the rail, you know those kats who are up front on the railing, dancing from the first note until the power is pulled on the soundboard.  They'll be there. Rain or shine or pandemic.

But there are a lot of us who have been to hundreds of festivals and are approaching, or past, that half-century mark and happy to chill out just a bit. For this group of festival goers they also need additional personal space.  This clear tent is perfect for a couple, family or friends who already spent too much time together without following the CDC recommendation of 6 feet between people.



Food lines are going to be interesting too. Those lines of 20 people suddenly can wrap around the festival a few times with all the personal spacing. Maybe vendors will offer Drone to Dome delivery? We'll see you at the shows.

Wash your hands, don't touch your face or pass the pipe!


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Our shortlist of the best new albums out this week includes a debut solo release from Paramore's Hayley Williams, the latest from R&B singer Kehlani, rapper Bishop Nehru and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Hayley Williams — Petals For Armor
Featured Song: "Simmer"
2. Blake Mills — Mutable Set
Featured Song: "Money is the One True God"
3. Buscabulla — Regresa
Featured Song: "Mío"
4. Mark Lanegan — Straight Songs of Sorrow
Featured Song: "This Game of Love"
5. Chelsea Williams — Beautiful and Strange
Featured Song: "Beautiful and Strange"
6. Kehlani — It Was Good Until It Wasn't
Featured Song: "Grieving"
7. Eve Owen — Don't Let The Ink Dry
Featured Song: "Mother"
8. Bishop Nehru — Nehruvia: My Disregarded Thoughts
Featured Song: "Too Lost"
9. Cyrillus Kreek — The Suspended Harp of Babel
Featured Song: "From Heaven Above to Earth I Come"

Other notable releases out on May 8: Beauty Pill — Please Advise; Hailee Steinfeld — Half-Written Story; Phenomenal Handclap Band — Do What You Like; Same — Plastic Western; Shakey Graves — Look Alive; Shiner — Schadenfreude.

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