Poll Results: NPR Listeners Pick The Top Albums Of 2020

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How Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily conjured Love In Exile

Contributor Nate Chinen interviews the three musicians behind the new improvisational supergroup Love In Exile about their new album, the mysteries of how songs emerge from improvisation and most crucially, how the music they create is an expression of how they listen to each oth ...  Show more

The overlooked legacy of Sha-Rock, hip-hop's first female MC

In our latest episode of Louder Than A Riot we break down legacy: who gets to leave one in hip-hop and who gets left out. Decades before hip-hop's current renaissance of women rappers, there was MC Sha-Rock. Despite her influence on future generations, her contribution to the cra ...  Show more

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