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From our friends at NPR's Alt.Latino, Anamaria Sayre sits down with R&B darling Omar Apollo to talk about his experiences growing up in Indiana and becoming a role model for queer Latinx kids.

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All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen returns with some of his favorite tracks of the week, including new ones from the groundbreaking reggae artist Horace Andy, singer-songwriter Anna Tivel and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Horace Andy: "Feverish," from Midnight Scorchers
2. The Comet is Coming: "TECHNICOLOUR," from Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
3. Very Very: "Strange Occasion" (Single)
4. Anna Tivel: "Outsiders," from Outsiders
5. Winter: "good," from What Kind of Blue Are You?
6. Mama's Broke: "How It Ends," from Narrow Line


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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include genre-straddling polymaths Santigold and Sudan Archives, R&B sensation Ari Lennox and more.

Featured Albums:

Ari Lennox — age/sex/location
Featured Songs: "Queen Space (feat. Summer Walker)," "Hoodie"
Sudan Archives — Natural Brown Prom Queen
Featured Songs: "Copycat (Broken Notions)," "Chevy S10," "Yellow Brick Road, TDLY (Homegrown Land)"
The Paranoyds — Talk Talk Talk
Featured Songs: "Freak Out," "Single Origin Experience," "Sunburn"
Sampa the Great — As Above, So Below
Featured Songs: "Lane (feat. Denzel Curry)," "Can I Live"
Santigold — Spirituals
Featured Songs: "High Priestess," "Ain't Ready," "My Horror," "Shake"

Lightning Round:

Son Little — Like Neptune
Jackson Wang — Magic Man
Oliver Sim — Hideous Bastard
Built To Spill — When the Wind Forgets Your Name
Madison Cunningham — Revealer

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A massive new collection of more than 240 songs and spoken word recordings — all about birds — features work from Andrew Bird, Kamasi Washington, Laurie Anderson, Alice Coltrane, Cassandra Jenkins, Yo-Yo Ma, Beck and more.

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include rapper Psalm One, the veteran metal band Megadeth, English singer Yungblud and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Yungblud — Yungblud
Featured Songs: "Memories (feat. WILLOW)," "Tissues"
2. Psalm One X Custom Made — Bigg Perrm
Featured Songs: "Cristalle Jr.," "Pitchfork Score"
3. Megadeth — The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!
Featured Songs: "Night Stalkers (feat. Ice-T)"
4. Living Hour — Someday Is Today
Featured Songs: "Feelings Meeting (feat. Jay Som)," "Hump"
5. Stereolab — Pulse of the Early Brain (Switched On Vol. 5)
Featured Songs: "Laissez Faire," "ABC," "Symbolic Logic of Now!"

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Punches flew from the Mountain Goats, Roc Marciano and The Alchemist teamed up, Tomu DJ took unexpected turns, Julia Jacklin looked deep within, Eli Winter opened up and Tommy McLain returned.

Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. The Mountain Goats: "Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome" from Bleed Out
2. Roc Marciano & The Alchemist: "JJ Flash" from The Elephant Man's Bones
3. Tomu DJ: "Optimistic" from Half Moon Bay
4. Julia Jacklin, "Ignore Tenderness" from Pre Pleasure
5. Eli Winter: "Dayenu" from Eli Winter
6. Tommy McLain: "Somebody" from I Ran Down Every Dream

Our panel's additional recommendations for August:
Young Nudy, EA Monster
Diamanda Galás, Broken Gargoyles
Quinn Christopherson, "Celine"
Danger Mouse & Black Thought, Cheat Codes
Eight, Delight in Eight

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week, including the highly anticipated third album by Atlanta rapper J.I.D. and a massive Blondie box set.

Featured Albums:
1. J.I.D — The Forever Story
Featured Songs: "Dance Now," "Better Days," "Raydar"

2. Stella Donnelly — Flood
Featured Songs: "Lungs," "Morning Silence," "How Was Your Day?"

3. Miguel Zenón — Müsica De Las Americas
Featured Songs: "Opresion Y Revolucion," "Tainos Y Caribes"

4. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — Let's Turn It Into Sound
Featured Songs: "Locate," "Have You Felt Lately?"

5. Blondie — Against the Odds: 1974-1982
Featured Songs: "Rapture" "The Tide Is High (Demo Version)," "Heart of Glass"

Lightning Round:

Carolyn Malachi — Counter Narratives
Julia Jacklin — Pre Pleasure
Regina Spektor — 11:11 + Papa's Bootlegs
Valerie June — Under Cover
Meechy Darko — Gothic Luxury

Other notable releases for August 26:
blackbear — In Loving Memory
Bret McKenzie — Songs Without Jokes
Chris Forsyth — Evolution Here We Come
Diamanda Galás — Broken Gargoyles
Embrace — How To Be a Person Like Other People
Eyedress — Full Time Lover
Ezra Furman — All of Us Flames
Ingrid Andress — Good Person
Marcus King — Young Blood
Muse — Will Of The People
Pantha du Prince — Garden Gaia
Pianos Become the Teeth — Drift
Sélébéyone — Xaybu: The Unseen
Spice — Emancipated
William Orbit — The Painter
Yellowjackets — Parallel Motion

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Hot Chip, the R&B singer Tink, Shemekia Copeland, singer-songwriter Anna Tivel and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Hot Chip — Freakout/Release
Featured Songs: "Down," "Freakout/Release," "Miss the Bliss," "The Evil That Men Do"
2. Terence Etc. — Vortex
Featured Songs: "In Contemplation of Clair's Scent," "Infinence or Infinity," "The Merchant of Flatbush"
3. Anna Tivel — Outsiders
Featured Songs: "Outsiders, "Black Umbrella," "The Basement"
4. Tink — Pillow Talk
Featured Songs: "Mine," "Drunk Text'n"
5. Shemekia Copeland — Done Come Too Far
Featured Songs: "Too Far To Be Gone," "The Talk," "Fell in Love with a Honky," "Gullah Geechee," "The Dolls are Sleeping"

Lightning Round:
Andrew Combs — Sundays
Internet Money — We All We Got
Muna Ileiwat — Twenty-Seven
THICK — Happy Now

Other notable releases for Aug. 19:
AITCH — Close to Home
Cass McCombs — Heartmind
Demi Lovato — HOLY FVCK
Eli Winter — Eli Winter
Kim Myhr — Sympathetic Magic
Loudon Wainwright III — Lifetime Achievement
Madonna — Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones
Marketa Irglova — Lila
The Mountain Goats — Bleed Out
Panic! At The Disco — Viva Las Vengeance
Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries II
Silversun Pickups — Physical Thrills
The Soft Pink Truth — Was It Ever Real?


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The best new albums out this week include Cheat Codes from Danger Mouse and Black Thought, a stunning debut from singer and TikTok phenom Bella Poarch, Hudson Mohawke's Cry Sugar and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Danger Mouse & Black Thought — Cheat Codes
Featured Songs: "Strangers," "Aquamarine"
2. Bella Poarch — Dolls
Featured Songs: "Dolls," "Build a Bitch"
3. Hudson Mohawke — Cry Sugar
Featured Songs: "Rain Shadow," "Ingle Nook," "Stump," "Behold"
4. Beastie Boys — Check Your Head (Deluxe Edition)
Featured Songs: "Jimmy James," "Gratitude," "So What'Cha Want (Butt Naked Version)," "Pass the Mic (Pt. 2, Skills To Pay The Bills)"
5. NIKI — Nicole
Featured Songs: "Keeping Tabs," "Take A Chance With Me," "Facebook Friends"

Lightning Round:
Andy Bey — Experience and Judgment
Peter Mulvey & SistaSrings — Love is the Only Thing
Sylvan Esso — No Rules Sandy
Tomu DJ — Half Moon Bay

Other notable releases for Aug. 12:
Boris — Heavy Rocks (2022)
Pale Waves — Unwanted
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom — Reset
Pavement — Slanted and Enchanted (30th Anniversary Edition)
Rat Tally — In My Car


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All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a new project from Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson, a Vieux Farka Touré--Khruangbin collaboration and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Plains: "Problem With It," from I Walked With You A Ways
2. dodie: "Got Weird" (Single)
3. Spring Summer: "Mountaineer," from T.E.A.R.S
4. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin: "Savanne," from Ali
5. Hermanos Gutiérrez: "El Bueno Y El Malo," from El Bueno Y El Malo
6. Young Jesus: "Ocean (feat. Tomberlin)," from Shepherd Head


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