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Russian missiles hit industrial facilities at a strategic city in southern Ukraine Sunday as Moscow continued efforts to expand its gains in the country's east.

This week, hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton sit down with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne to discuss his musical influences, the creative process, his career that spans thirty years, and the band's amazing new album The Terror.

On its first album in six years, Now, Now perfectly captures pop music's ability to transmute desire and despair into easily hummable enlightenment.

Winter, more than any other season, has its own soundtrack: There's a nonstop loop of holiday tunes in every store you visit, and carolers in the town square. By the time late December rolls around, many people have had it. Author Tom Moon offers an alternative list of winter music.

On her bustling third album, the former Carolina Chocolate Drops member maps her vision of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora while gently taking Anglocentricism (and capitalism) down a notch.

The ever-evolving duo's meditative, expansive new album showcases a restless desire for growth in songs that tackle thorny and complex realities.

The emergence of more indie classical labels and self-produced, high-quality CDs is a reminder that American music is doing just fine. Hear a list of the year's best new classical recordings.

Sri Lankan lawmakers met Saturday to begin choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by the president who fled and resigned after mass protests over the country's economic crisis.

The master craftsman returns with his first new tunes in 13 years.

The recently engaged creative partners give birth to a wellspring of sociopolitical satire on their new collaborative LP.

Get lost in 15 alluring electroacoustic landscapes from an innovative, intrepid ensemble from West Michigan.

Brighter Wounds achieves another breakthrough during a fraught and heartbreaking period. It's the band's most personal album yet.

This is likely to be one of the most beautiful albums you'll hear in 2018.

Stream the iconic Canadian collective's new album in its entirety.

The son of The Beatles' George Harrison will finally release his debut solo album in October, but you can stream the gifted guitarist's In///Parallel in its entirety now.

David Byrne's first solo album since 2004 is a brilliantly brainy attempt to make some sense of this inexplicable, mind-bending world.

Originally written for Massive Attack, Valerie June gives an old song new life.

The Azure Ray singer fills her warm, reflective new album with gorgeous, touching songs about family, legacy and the pursuit of contentment.

Paul McCartney talks about his solo career-spanning compilation Pure McCartney, his creative process, how he stays inspired and why he sometimes thinks he should take songwriting more seriously.

The singer and fiddler has mastered craft and structure in order to communicate the nuances of a richly responsive internal life.

Away is a rebuilding-yourself-from-the-ground-up kind of record, and singer-songwriter Will Sheff uses the occasion to take his time and let his songs breathe.

There's a because-we-can quality to the band's overstuffed, 82-minute second album, as Foxygen delights in letting its loosest threads unravel.

One of the finest, most ravishing, cello concertos so far this century, written for and performed by Yo-Yo Ma, finally receives its debut recording.

Stream the budding country star's beguiling debut album before its official release on March 24.

Ellen Kempner and her band document a fraught transition from childhood to adulthood — and do a great job, in part because they're still living through the process.