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Residents listen as Sound Impact musicians play during the final performance of their three-day residency at the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center in Alexandria, Va. Shuran Huang For NPR hide caption

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Incarcerated teens find escape in music and poems composed with artists

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Arlo Parks on World Cafe

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Arlo Parks' sophomore album My Soft Machine is named after a line in the 2019 film The Souvenir. Parks explains, "It's very much a contrast between light and shade, numbness and hypersensitivity and the softness in the machine-like quality." Alexis Waespi hide caption

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Arlo Parks' new album 'My Soft Machine' doesn't shy away from life's hard times

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When stars hit it big just as a generation comes of age, it can create a unique and lifelong bond with their fans. Above, Beyoncé performs in Los Angeles in July 2009. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption

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In a concert that spans almost three hours, featuring robots, tanks, flying horses and maximalist filmmaking, Beyoncé remixed and embedded the entire 16-track Renaissance album into her full musical archive. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Parkwood hide caption

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Savannah McConneaughey, right, poses with her father Reggie and mother Kenya. Reggie McConneaughey hide caption

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VanVan, 4, raps about her ABCs and 123s

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Here are the standout tracks in Ed Sheeran's new album 'Subtract'

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Lizzy McAlpine on World Cafe

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Caroline Polachek on World Cafe

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Kara Jackson's Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? is on our shortlist of the best albums out April 14. Lawrence Agyei/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 14

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On her sixth album, Feist's barely adorned honesty is consummate, the result of someone who has lived enough to have a story and worked enough to set it brilliantly to song. Sara Melvin & Colby Richardson/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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