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Bob Dylan's new compilation, The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12, is out now.

Bob Dylan's new compilation, The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12, is out now. Don Hunstein/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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The Day Dylan Got It Right

"Like a Rolling Stone" is a classic today, but it flummoxed a young Bob Dylan in the studio. Newly released outtakes reveal where the song started and how it dramatically transformed.

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Shawn Colvin.

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World Cafe

Shawn Colvin On World Cafe

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Performing material from her new covers album, Colvin shows she has a knack for singing other people's songs as well as her own.

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Guitarist, actor and writer Carrie Brownstein performing with her band Sleater-Kinney at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.

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All Songs Considered

All Songs +1: Carrie Brownstein Isn't Who You Think She Is

In her remarkable new memoir, Carrie Brownstein paints a startlingly candid portrait of herself that dispels any myths fans might have about her rock-star status with the band Sleater-Kinney.

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Seratones.

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Songs We Love

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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A still from The Max Levine Ensemble's "My Valerian."

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Songs We Love

Songs We Love: The Max Levine Ensemble, 'My Valerian'

Eight years between albums, the D.C. pop-punks return with a chunky rock anthem about chasing bliss. In the video, a doomsday device is implanted in singer David Combs' brain.

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