ListenUp: A look back at Ray Manzarek, Digable Planets’ reissue, “Dumb Disco Ideas” and more in our weekly music recap

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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Into The Great Wide Open Opening their five-night residency at NYC’s Beacon Theater with a cover of The Byrds’ “So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star,” Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers set the tone for…

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ListenUp: Commander Chris Hadfield’s “Space Oddity” and even more out-of-this-world tunes in our weekly music recap

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Commander Chris Hadfield: Space Oddity For his final bow after months commanding the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded a music video from space. In covering David Bowie’s 1969 song, “Space Oddity,” Hadfield was…

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ListenUp: From Savages live at Ministry of Sound to Jaytram’s remix of Quitapenas’ Más Tropical, our look at music this week

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Wes Anderson Soundtracks Domino Records has pieced together some of the best tunes to grace the silver screen under Wes Anderson’s creative control for a Spotify playlist that includes both some of the more obvious…

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ListenUp: From Vondelpark’s debut album to the end of Kris Kross, our look at music this week

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John Grant: GMF In a style that is one part Antony Hegarty and one part Jack Black, American musician John Grant smoothly tackles hard-hitting issues like addiction, sexuality and living with HIV. The Reykjavik-based singer’s droll ruminations recently amused crowds at NYC’s Le…

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ListenUp: New music and a look at the lives of music legends George Jones and Richie Havens

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Richie Havens: Freedom Sweating and strumming the guitar with artistic force, folk singer Richie Havens opened up Woodstock in ’69 with a three-hour-long, 11-song set that culminated with “Freedom.” A star on the rise, the Brooklyn…

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ListenUp: Daft Punk, Sonny Terry, Florence + The Machine and more in our weekly music recap

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Sound Advice 171: Handselecta The World’s Best Ever looked to graffiti-focused type designer Christian Acker for the latest installment of Sound Advice, the site’s regular music offering created by a different person every week. Sound Advice…

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ListenUp: From music vet Shuggie Otis’ new album to the debut of Man Tear, our recap of the songs we Tweeted last week

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Lord Huron: Lonesome Dreams Lord Huron delivered “part one in an exciting series of adventures” with their video for “Lonesome Dreams,” the third track on their album of the same name. Cleverly, “Lonesome Dreams” is also…

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ListenUp: Fleetwood Mac, Nicolas Jaar, Drake and more in our weekly music recap

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Bonobo: Cirrus Interview Magazine checks in with Simon Green, the British musician better known as Bonobo, to glean a little insight into his newly-released album, The North Borders. The NYC-based solo artist talks about the therapeutic aspects of recording, the globalization of music,…

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