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This One's For The Chicken: A Super Bowl Party With A Purpose

This Sunday will mark the 16th annual installment of "Chicken Bowl," my Super Bowl party, which doubles as a grand fried-chicken-eating contest. As many as 80 friends, coworkers, enablers and...

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Hail To The Chipmunks: A Holiday Classic Re-Revisited

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Baby Bands, Pop Stars And Room-Filling Joy: What To Expect At SXSW 2013

Listen to Stephen Thompson's conversation with Audie Cornish on All Things Considered by clicking the audio link.The South by Southwest music festival kicked off Tuesday with the first of five straight...

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The Good Listener: When Good Musicians Do Bad Things

We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and amid a deluxe version of the Ashley Monroe record in which "deluxe" means "packed in a 10-pound wooden crate" is a slew of smart questions about how music fits...

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First Listen: The Notwist, 'Close To The Glass'

On paper, the German electro-pop band The Notwist sounds less accessible than it is: Since getting together 25 years ago, its members have delved into everything from hardcore to underground hip-hop to...

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The Austin 100: A SXSW 2014 Mix

Every year, more than 2,000 acts swarm to SXSW — and every year, NPR Music painstakingly handpicks 100 of the music festival's best discoveries for a downloadable six-hour sampler.

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The Good Listener: Am I Too Old For Music Festivals?

We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and amid the hundreds of water bottles we were supposed to give away at SXSW is a slew of smart questions about how music fits into our lives — and, this week,...

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: For Our 200th Episode, Quizzes And A Q&A

It seems like it's been about 200 weeks since we started hyping the 200th episode of Pop Culture Happy Hour, and it's finally here. This is the second hour of our June 24 live show in NPR's Studio 1,...

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