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Japanese Breakfast

For this Tiny Desk concert, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner replaced her gauzy synths with a string quartet. The result is something to behold.

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Porches' Aaron Maine Is Sullen In 'Find Me' Video

The latest single from Porches' third album, The House, is anxiety you can dance to, painted with a throbbing '90s house beat and chirping vocal blips.

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Shabazz Palaces

Hip-hop's otherworldly lot touches down on Bob Boilen's desk for some Afrofuturistic mind travel.

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Sunday Morning Alt.Latino Serenade: Four Tracks For Your Weekend

Another monthly sampler to Weekend Edition Sunday with love from Alt.Latino.

Sunday Morning Alt.Latino Serenade: Four Tracks For Your Weekend

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Electronic musician Richie Hawtin's travels to Japan made a deep impression on him: "I found a country filled with beautiful contrasts which balanced high technology and deep cultural traditions." Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Coachella hide caption

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Blending Techno And Tradition: You Should Be Dancing ... With Sake

Electronic musician and craft sake maker Richie Hawtin is exploring the connection between the Japanese drink and music, and claims that melding the two results in a "beautifully hypnotic experience."

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Documentary Premiere: William Eggleston's Secret World Of 'Musik'

Watch a short film about the revered artist who liberated color photography in the 1970s. Now, at age 78, his lifelong passion for music is revealed in his very first album release.

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The Perceptionists

Watch hip-hop veterans Mr. Lif and Akrobatik team up behind the Tiny Desk.

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Tycho Turns Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' Into A Laser Show

Tycho makes electronic music that is as cinematic as it is emotional. Watch the band's "Glider" video, edited with scenes from Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 film.

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Watch The Wild Reeds' Intensely Emotional New Video, 'Capable'

The heart of "Capable" from The Wild Reeds is spelled out in these lyrics by Sharon Silva: "You're capable of so much more/Than these people give you credit for/And you just need to show it."

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Meditate To Ka Baird's 'Metamorphoses'

Ka Baird's hypnotic flute playing is looped into a wordless mantra, "a back and forth between the material and spiritual," she tells NPR.

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Thundercat

Thundercat is willing and able to shape-shift to fit into just about any box you show him, but he won't stay in there for long.

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In New Video, Prophets Of Rage Gives NFL's #TakeAKnee Protest Historical Context

One week after Eminem's anti-Trump tirade, Chuck D's supergroup releases visuals for the "Strength In Numbers" anthem, meant to boost support for the NFL's #TakeAKnee protests.

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Hanson

Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson just celebrated their 25th anniversary as a band. To celebrate, watch them perform three of their post-"MMMBop" career highlights.

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Watch Fischerspooner and Caroline Polachek's Provocative New Video 'Togetherness'

The bedroom politics dictating a partnership have long been contested; in Fischerspooner's erotically charged new video for the song "Togetherness," they're choreographed.

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First Watch: Until The Ribbon Breaks, 'Here Comes The Feeling'

The video for "Here Comes The Feeling" is filled with images and sounds of "taped" images winding and looping, mirroring a transformative time in the life of frontman Pete Lawrie-Winfield.