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Songs We Love: Seratones, 'Necromancer'

The new single and video from Shreveport's newest garage-rock stompers is voudou-inspired fun in a Louisiana cemetery.

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Songs We Love: Dream Koala, 'Dimension Sleeper'

The young French-Brazilian singer-songwriter-producer continues his foray into new dimensions of soulful futurism.

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Songs We Love: Josh Abbott Band, 'Ghosts'

The regretful first song that the country singer-songwriter composed for his group's concept album about the end of a marriage now has a video.

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Songs We Love: dae zhen., 'Friday'

A young Los Angeles rapper joins the storied tradition of great end-of-the-week, just-got-paid songs, with a quaint, warm jam full of small victories.

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Songs We Love: Auntie Flo Feat. Poppy Ackroyd & Richard Thair, 'For Mihaly'

A melancholy track about living in the moment from fine purveyors of globally minded house music.

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Songs We Love: Martha, 'Six Men Getting Sick Six Times (Mendable)'

NPR Music's favorite Durham County, England anarchists trade in their pop-punk sound for an acoustic heartbreaker.

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Songs We Love: A-Trak Feat. Jamie Lidell, 'We All Fall Down (Jamie's Version)'

The great British soul singer and production wiz refashions his vocal from the EDM house hit into a weighty throwback.

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