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Favorite Sessions

Built To Spill, 'So' (Live) KEXP-FM

July 27, 2015 • Despite the title of their new album, Untethered Moon, these veteran rockers have never seemed more grounded. Watch them play "So" in the KEXP studio.

Drive-By Truckers on stage at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, where It's Great To Be Alive! was recorded.

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The Record

Drive By-Truckers To Release Massive Live Album

July 27, 2015 • The 35-track It's Great To Be Alive!, recorded over three nights last year at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, will be out October 30. Hear the album's version of "Birthday Boy" now.

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All Songs Considered

Song Premiere: Palehound, 'Cushioned Caging'

July 27, 2015 • On Ellen Kempner's latest grungy treat of a single, her moxie can't be stifled by fuzzed-out production.

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All Songs TV

Florence And The Machine, 'Queen Of Peace/Long And Lost'

July 27, 2015 • The dog days are decidedly over in the gorgeous, mournful new double-feature video from the English powerhouse.

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Newport Folk Festival

Courtney Barnett, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2015

July 27, 2015 • If the Newport Folk crowd was scandalized by Bob Dylan going electric in 1965, they would've hated this Aussie's grungy, hard-rocking performance 50 years later.

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All Songs Considered

All Songs + 1: Josh Ritter's 'Sermon on the Rocks'

July 27, 2015 • A singer-songwriter tells the tale of a "risky teen" and a Bible school intervention in the lead single from his forthcoming album, Sermon On The Rocks.

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All Songs Considered

Songs We Love: Patty Griffin, 'Rider of Days'

July 27, 2015 • The uniquely affecting folk giant is at the top of her formidable game in a slow-burning track from her forthcoming album.

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All Songs Considered

Dreams Do Come True: Sufjan Stevens At Newport Folk

July 26, 2015 • An audience both very young and somewhat old sang in unison with Stevens' powerful, gentle songs Saturday at the Newport Folk Festival.

Connecting the folk tradition to Dark Side of the Moon, Roger Waters closed out the first day of the 2015 Newport Folk Festival. Adam Kissick for NPR hide caption

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All Songs Considered

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Shined At Newport Folk

July 25, 2015 • Joined by My Morning Jacket and other special guests, the Pink Floyd co-founder proved himself to be one of the folk with a Friday evening set that seemed to turn rainy skies into a glorious sunset.

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Amy Helm & the Handsome Strangers, "Rescue Me"

July 25, 2015 • Amy Helm, daughter of The Band's Levon Helm, doesn't need to prove that she's a force of nature.

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Favorite Sessions

Built To Spill, 'So' (Live) KEXP-FM

The Record

Drive By-Truckers To Release Massive Live Album

All Songs Considered

Song Premiere: Palehound, 'Cushioned Caging'

All Songs TV

Florence And The Machine, 'Queen Of Peace/Long And Lost'

Newport Folk Festival

Courtney Barnett, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2015

All Songs Considered

All Songs + 1: Josh Ritter's 'Sermon on the Rocks'

All Songs Considered

Songs We Love: Patty Griffin, 'Rider of Days'

All Songs Considered

Dreams Do Come True: Sufjan Stevens At Newport Folk

All Songs Considered

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Shined At Newport Folk

Favorite Sessions

Amy Helm & the Handsome Strangers, "Rescue Me"

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