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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Arlo Parks on World Cafe
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
For his "Rich Spirit" / "N95" medley on SNL, Kendrick Lamar performed with minimal visual accompaniment, perfectly geared for the raw intimacy of his newest material. Will Heath/NBC hide caption
Lewis Capaldi performs a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. Michael Zamora hide caption
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
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
Savannah McConneaughey, right, poses with her father Reggie and mother Kenya. Reggie McConneaughey hide caption
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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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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
Visitors pose with cardboard cutouts of K-pop group BTS members at a tourist information center in Seoul on June 15, 2022. Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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