Clockwise from upper left: Minor Victories, members of Free Cake For Every Creature, Yak, William Tyler Courtesy of the artists hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the artists It's a big week for Bob Boilen! He celebrated his birthday earlier in the week and, Your Song Changed My Life, comes out today. He celebrated on the show today with some wonderful pop music by the band and a beautiful Grateful Dead cover courtesy of. While Bob leaves the studio to celebrate, Robin plays a joyous cut from and an atmospheric track from the supergroup. Also on the show: NPR Music's Lars Gotrich drops by to play some rich guitar music from, Bob plays guitar-meets-sitar duo and Robin closes out the show with some jolting rock from. Close overlay Buy Featured Music Song Morning Dew Album Day Of The Dead Artist The National Label 4AD Released 2016 Your purchase helps support NPR programming. • • The National • Song: Morning Dew • from Day Of The Dead Day Of The Dead is the second album members of The National have compiled for the benefit of AIDS-relief group the Red Hot Organization. The band's Aaron and Bryce Dessner gathered over 60 other artists to contribute covers to the 59-track album. Melissa Gray is National Public Radio's Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over. Here, The National tackles 'Morning Dew,' a hauntingly beautiful song about what happens when a couple wakes up to a post-apocalyptic world. Day of the Dead is out May 20 on 4AD. Embed Dawg Yawp • Song: East Virginia Blues • from East Virginia Blues - Single On paper, the idea of a sitar-guitar Appalachian folk duo may seem puzzling, but in the hands of Dawg Yawp, it works. Tyler Randall, the sitar player, first heard the multi-string instrument on The Beatles' 'Within You Without You,' and after finally getting one found a way to insert it perfectly into this traditional folk tune. Close overlay Buy Featured Music Song Wonderful Night Album Ashford Castle Artist The Nobility Label The Nobility Released 2016 Your purchase helps support NPR programming. • • The Nobility • Song: Wonderful Night • from Ashford Castle The Nobility, a Nashville-based group, create joyful, exuberant music that immediately caught Robin's ear. 'Wonderful Night' was inspired by a Fleet Foxes show, and the early feelings in a relationship where everything is awesome and exciting. Ashford Castle is out now. Close overlay Buy Featured Music Song First Summer in a City Album Talking Quietly of Anything With You Artist Free Cake for Every Creature Label Double Double Whammy Released 2016 Your purchase helps support NPR programming. • • Free Cake For Every Creature • Song: First Summer in a City • from Talking Quietly of Anything With You Free Cake For Every Creature started as the bedroom recording project of songwriter Katie Bennett. Now located in Philadelphia and joined by a group, Bennett makes wonderful, delicate little pop songs. Talking Quietly Of Anything With You is out April 15 on Double Double Whammy.
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