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Turnstile: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

January 5, 2022 • At the drummer's house in Baltimore, Turnstile's high-energy hardcore is surrounded by stuffed animals, presumably pogoing and windmilling in your imagination.

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Daniel Bachman, 'Rappahannock River Rag'

January 4, 2022 • Daniel Bachman retains the chunky chord progression and pass-the-whiskey spirit of the Jack Rose tune, but you can feel the strings rattle the wood of his guitar with rowdy reverberation.

Viking's Choice 2021: Cassettes rule everything around me

Cassettes released by Znous, Bacon Grease, Wendy Eisenberg, Morbo, Maraudeur, Myriam Gendron, Cara Neir, Felinto, Neo Geodesia and Lucy Liyou appear on this Viking's Choice episode. Photo Illustration by Renee Klahr, Lars Gotrich/NPR hide caption

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Viking's Choice 2021: Cassettes rule everything around me

December 27, 2021 • NPR Music's Lars Gotrich offers a tribute to the Peruvian punk, chiptuned black metal and Brazilian dub that soundtracked his home office in 2021, cranked on a trusty tape machine.

Viking's Choice 2021: Cassettes rule everything around me

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NPR Music 2021 Staff Picks: Lars Gotrich

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The Best Music Of 2021: NPR Staff Picks

NPR Music 2021 Staff Picks: Lars Gotrich

December 16, 2021 • NPR Music's resident viking shares his favorite albums and songs of 2021.

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Moin, 'Crappy Dreams Count'

December 15, 2021 • The band exists somewhere in the deconstructed '90s punk nexus of Fugazi, Unwound and Shellac, but its high-definition payoff is somehow more psychedelic.

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Viking's Choice Holiday Special

December 10, 2021 • Bubbly pop songs sidle up to filthy headbangers and dreamy ambient in a six-hour playlist of unexpected holiday music.

The Best New Artists & Breakthroughs of 2021

PinkPantheress, Wet Leg and María Becerra are among NPR Music's best new artists and breakthroughs of 2021. Photo Illustration by Renee Klahr/NPR; Getty Images hide caption

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Obituaries

Alvin Lucier, inquisitive and innovative composer, has died at 90

December 1, 2021 • Lucier changed the way we think about sound through monumental works like I Am Sitting in a Room and Music on a Long Thin Wire.

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Nov. 26

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New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Nov. 26

November 26, 2021 • NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson's new film Licorice Pizza, Turkish funk from El Michels Affair, Julie Doiron and more.

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