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The best albums out this week include new ones from Post Malone, Carly Rae Jepsen, composer and singer Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Joni Mitchell's surprise performance at Newport last year and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Post Malone — AUSTIN
Featured Songs: "Texas Tea," "Something Real," "Don't Understand," "Mourning"
2. Georgia — Euphoric
Featured Songs: "It's Euphoric," "Give It up for Love," "Live Like We're Dancing (Part II)," "Friends Will Never Let You Go"
3. Beverly Glenn-Copeland — The Ones Ahead
Featured Songs: "Harbour (Song For Elizabeth)," "People of the Loon," "Stand Anthem"
4. Carly Rae Jepsen — The Loveliest Time
Featured Songs: "Anything to Be With You," "Shy Boy," "Kollage," "So Right," "Stadium Love"
5. Joni Mitchell — At Newport
Featured Songs: "Both Sides, Now," "Just Like This Train," "Amelia (feat. Taylor Goldsmith)," "Summertime"

Lightning Round:
Chika — SAMSON: THE ALBUM
Madeline Kenney — A New Reality Mind
Paris Texas — MID AIR
Stevie Nicks — Stevie Nicks Complete Studio Albums & Rarities

Other notable releases for July 28:
Aphex Twin — Black Box Life Recorder 21f / in a Room7 F760
Bethany Cosentino — Natural Disaster
The Budos Band — Frontier's Edge
Bush Tetras — They Live in My Head
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah — Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning
The Clientele — I Am Not There Anymore
Darlingside — Everything Is Alive
Fly Anakin — Skinemaxxx (Side B)
Jessy Lanza — Love Hallucination
Nite Bjuti — Nite Bjuti
Travis Scott — UTOPIA

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NPR Music's Hazel Cills and critic Marissa Lorusso join All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen to share their favorite new tracks of the week.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Mary Jane Dunphe: "Stage of Love," from Stage of Love
2. Squirrel Flower: "When A Plant Is Dying," from Tomorrow's Fire
3. Saya Gray: "DIZZY PPL BECOME BLURRY," from QWERTY
4. SPELLLING: "Under the Sun," from SPELLLING & the Mystery School
5. Josaleigh Pollett: "Empty Things," from In the Garden, by the Weeds
6. Sivan Levy: "Jacaranda," from side:s EP
7. Big Thief: "Vampire Empire" (Single)


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K-Pop convention-breakers NewJeans drop their second EP this week, along with new ones from Andrew Bird, Fatboi Sharif, the super-stacked Barbie soundtrack, a rare Nina Simone recording and more.

Featured Albums:
1. New Jeans — Get Up
Featured Songs: "ETA," "Super Shy," "ASAP"
2. Fatboi Sharif & Steel Tipped Dove — Decay
Featured Songs: "Designer Drugs," "Phantasm," "The 6th Floor," "Dimethyltryptamine," "Green Winged Shoulder Padding"
3. Andrew Bird — Outside Problems
Featured Songs: "Festivus," "Mormon House Party," "Mancey"
4. Various — Barbie The Album
Featured Songs: Dua Lipa, "Dance the Night"; Lizzo, "Pink"; Sam Smith, "Man I Am"; GAYLE, "butterflies"; Billie Eilish, "What Was I Made For"; Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice (with Aqua), "Barbie World"
5. Nina Simone — You've Got to Learn
Featured Songs: "Blues for Mama," "Mississippi Goddamn," "You've Got to Learn"

Lightning Round:
Blur — The Ballad of Darren
Lucki — s*x m*ney dr*gs (released July 14)
MJ Lenderman — "Rudolph" (Single)
Mother Tongues — Love in a Vicious Way

Other notable releases for July 21:
Allegra Krieger — I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
Babyface Ray — Summer's Mine
Guided By Voices — Welshpool Frillies
Greta Van Fleet — Starcatcher
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol & Whatsnext? — Turkish Hipster: Tales From Swing To Psychedelic
Nils Lofgren — Mountains
Paris Texas — MID AIR

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Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre speaks with YEИDRY, the Dominican-born, Italian-raised singer about using music as a tool to marry her two worlds.

Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite discoveries of the week.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Grandaddy: "The Town where I'm Livin Now," from Sumday: Excess Baggage
2. Liza Anne: "Rainbow Sweater," from (Single)
3. Courtney Barnett & Stella Mozgawa: "Life Balance," from End Of The Day (music from the film Anonymous Club)
4. Lowland Hum: "Together (In That Way)," from From Self, With Love
5. Raia Was: "If You're Asking (I'm Offering)," from Captain Obvious
6. Yard Act: "The Trench Coat Museum," from (Single)


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The best albums out this week include Beautiful and Brutal Yard from rapper J Hus, the ragged rock of Palehound, vivid reflections on life in your 20s from country singer Alana Springsteen and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Kool & The Gang — People Just Wanna Have Fun
Featured Songs: "Go Get It," "Let's Party (feat. Sha Sha Jones)," "That's What I Love About You," "My Weakness"
2. Alana Springsteen — TWENTY SOMETHING: Figuring It Out
Featured Songs: "twenty something," "chameleon," "when we were friends"
3. Mahalia — IRL
Featured Songs: "In My Head (feat. Joyce Wrice)," "Ready," "Terms and Conditions," "It's Not Me, It's You (feat. Destin Conrad)," "Wassup (feat. Kojey Radical)"
4. J Hus — Beautiful and Brutal Yard
Featured Songs: "Who Told You (feat. Drake)," "Bim Bim," "Cream (feat. CB)"
5. Palehound — Eye on the Bat
Featured Songs: "The Clutch," "Independence Day," "Head Like Soup," "My Evil"

Lightning Round:
Haviah Mighty — Crying Crystals
Rauw Alejandro — PLAYA SATURNO
Rita Ora — You & I
Tessa Violet — MY GOD!

Other notable releases for July 14:
Blake Mills — Jelly Road
Hilary Hahn — Eugène Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Violin Solo, op. 27
IDMAN — Risk
Lauren Spencer-Smith — Mirror
Lindstrøm — Everyone Else is a Stranger
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog — Connection
PVRIS — EVERGREEN
TECH N9NE — Bliss


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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Palehound: "Independence Day," from Eye on the Bat
2. Talking Heads: "Cities (Live)," from Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition) [Live]
3. Margo Price: "Strangers in a Strange Land," from A Song For Leon
4. Hania Rani: "Dancing with Ghosts" (feat. Patrick Watson), from Ghosts
5. Laufey: "Promise," from Bewitched
6. Margaret Glaspy: "Act Natural," from Echo The Diamond

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the return of PJ Harvey, the continued arrival of Dominic Fike, Little Dragon, Aluna and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Aluna — MYCELiUM
Featured Songs: "The Way I'm Wired," "Kiss It Better"
2. Dominic Fike — Sunburn
Featured Songs: "Sick," "How Much Is Weed?" "Ant Pile"
3. ANOHNI and the Johnsons — My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
Featured Songs: "Rest," "It Must Change," "Sliver Of Ice"
4. Little Dragon — Slugs of Love
Featured Songs: "Slugs of Love," "Kenneth," "Tumbling Dice"
5. PJ Harvey — I Inside the Old Year Dying
Featured Songs: "Lwonesome Tonight," "Seem an I," "A Child's Question, August"

Lightning Round:
Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band — Kings Highway
The Japanese House — In The End It Always Does
Julie Byrne — The Greater Wings
Sampha — "Spirit 2.0" (Single)

Other notable releases for July 7:
AJ Suede — Ark Flashington
Alayna — Self Portrait Of A Woman Unraveling
Alice Phoebe Lou — Shelter
Jim O'Rourke — Hands That Bind (OST)
Local Natives — Time Will Wait For No One
The Pink Spiders — Freakazoid
Taylor Swift — Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
Various — The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs Of Nick Drake




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The singer talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers about Harvey's album I Inside the Old Year Dying, a ragged, highly crafted adaptation of her epic poem Orlam. It's a work that runs on the rhythm of the seasons and captures the beauty, fantastical rawness and occasional horror of English rural life.

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Hosts Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite albums of 2023 so far, from the modern corridos tumbados of Peso Pluma, a new, reimagined version of one of Fito Paez's greatest albums, dream pop from Y La Bamba and more. Plus: a run down of regional Mexican's current explosion.

Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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