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First Listen: Simone Dinnerstein & Tift Merritt, 'Night'

3.11.13 at 7:00pm by Tom Huizenga

Opposites attract in Night, a genre-blurring album that pairs alt-country singer-songwriter Tift Merritt with classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein. There's a solemn intimacy to these songs, and how they're delivered, that speaks one-on-one.

First Listen: Kacey Musgraves, 'Same Trailer Different Park'

3.11.13 at 11:45am by Ann Powers

Musgraves writes about and for people who've learned to fit their dreams into recession-sized moving boxes; who gain comfort from their family traditions but sometimes feel them cutting off breath like the top button on a stiff collar.

First Listen: Brandt Brauer Frick, 'Miami'

3.11.13 at 12:15am by Logan Young

The band's take on techno isn't cold, detached or inert; in fact, nearly every sample comes from a real, live instrument. Master synthesists, Daniel Brandt, Jan Brauer and Paul Frick make strings, winds, brass and percussion sound like anything but.

First Listen: Suede, 'Bloodsports'

3.11.13 at 12:15am by Otis Hart

The Britpop band's first album in 11 years is one of the finest comeback albums in recent memory. Brett Anderson sounds as melodramatic and persuasive as ever on Bloodsports, and he can still belt out choruses with the best of them.

First Listen: Low, 'The Invisible Way'

3.11.13 at 12:15am by Stephen Thompson

Low's 10th full-length studio album was produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, who avoids any temptation to radically stretch the Minnesota band's boundaries. But he wisely dials up the interplay between its two singers, while letting bits of piano and spare percussive rumbles provide a jolt of portent.

First Listen: Marnie Stern, 'The Chronicles Of Marnia'

3.4.13 at 12:30pm by Maura Johnston

Stern is a remarkably gifted guitarist, but her music also exudes joy and humanity. More than a breath of fresh air, her fourth album reaffirms how beautiful the mere act of being alive can be.

First Listen: The Delfonics, 'Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics'

3.4.13 at 10:45am by Frannie Kelley

The cross-generational team of Younge and William Hart has resulted in songs that capture the relationship between The Delfonics' music and hip-hop — songs that get under your skin and stay there.

First Listen: Phosphorescent, 'Muchacho'

3.4.13 at 1:15am by Stephen Thompson

Even when it aims for celestial bliss, Phosphorescent remains rooted in dusty, personal, earthbound concerns, thanks in large part to the winningly roughed-up, beautifully human voice at its core.

First Listen: Devendra Banhart, 'Mala'

3.4.13 at 1:15am by Stephen Thompson

Though he's smoothed out some of the extremes in his sound, the eccentric folksinger takes a lot of tonal detours on his seventh album. But that's the sound of creative freedom for a songwriter who's never been afraid to follow his whims to epiphanies, dead ends and many points in between.

First Listen: Dave Grohl & Friends, 'Sound City: Real To Reel'

3.4.13 at 1:15am by Amy Schriefer

The Foo Fighters frontman joins Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor, Paul McCartney and more for an exuberant ode to rock 'n' roll, told through the story of Sound City Studios and its custom analog console.

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