Tuesday, October 8, 2013

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Watch: Pearl Jam In Conversation With Judd Apatow

One of the world's biggest rock bands sits down with one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. Watch this 50-minute interview — conducted and directed by Apatow — in advance of Pearl Jam's new album, Lightning Bolt.
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FIRST LISTEN

First Listen: The Dismemberment Plan, 'Uncanney Valley'


On Uncanney Valley, its first album since 2001, The Dismemberment Plan sounds loose and liberated — like a band with its legacy secured, happy just to be there. It's a fitting way for the hard-to-define, intermittently funky D.C. rock group to make a comeback.
CLASSICS IN CONCERT

Gustavo Dudamel And The LA Philharmonic Celebrate 10 Years In Disney Hall


Ten years ago, architect Frank Gehry's shining Walt Disney Concert Hall opened its doors. Join us Saturday when conductor Gustavo Dudamel celebrates the occasion with a program of classics by Schubert and Tchaikovsky — plus a "mercurial and feisty" new percussion concerto.
FIRST LISTEN

First Listen: Cults, 'Static'


For Cults, reinvigorating '60s-style girl-group pop means embracing both light and darkness; it's about deceptive sweetness and a haunting quality that makes the songs linger after they're gone.
TINY DESK CONCERTS

Superchunk: Tiny Desk Concert


Watch the venerable North Carolina band translate its electric sound to acoustic instruments in an intimate way. Superchunk bookends this set in the NPR Music offices with songs from the newI Hate Music, and throws in two selections from earlier in its catalog.

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