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Sam Amidon's new album is titled Bright Sunny South.

May 17, 2013 Amidon says the melodies of shape-note hymns are some of the "deepest-seated for me."

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Woody Herman in 1946.

May 16, 2013 A reedman, talent scout and bandleader, Herman led "Herds" that were both popular and respected.

Laura Mvula's debut is ambitiously confident, as if she and her band had perfected their sound years ago.

May 15, 2013 Mvula's debut is ambitiously confident, as if she and her band had perfected their sound years ago.

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Chris Yerga, engineering director for Android at Google Inc., speaks at the company's I/O Annual Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.

May 15, 2013 On Wednesday the company launched All Access, which will directly compete with Spotify and Pandora.

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"Payphone" by Maroon 5 is one of the songs covered on YouTube.

May 13, 2013 Musicians, like Tyler Ward, who make videos performing covers are negotiating better revenue shares.

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On May 21, Daft Punk will release Random Access Memories, the duo's first album since 2005.

May 14, 2013 The long-awaited album from the Parisian dance music duo basks in the smooth sounds of the 1970s.

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