MGMT, Bon Iver, Songs That Say 'Me Too,' More

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New Mix: MGMT, Courtney Barnett And Kurt Vile, More MGMT, the psych-pop duo behind one of the decade's best earworms ("Time To Pretend"), is back with its first new music in four years. "Little Dark Age" is the title track to the group's 2018 album, a pulsing, synthesized meditation on the age of anxiety over a world coming apart. Also on this week's show: Reincarnation, the afterlife, parallel universes, time travel... and how it'll affect your weekend! Hear The Discussion And Songs Tiny Desk Hanson: Tiny Desk Concert The audience for Hanson's first Tiny Desk concert could be cleanly sorted into two distinct camps: the curious and the committed. The curious were the ones who'd inquired about whether the band would play its 1997 smash "MMMBop" (answer: nope), or wondered what Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson have been up to since the '90s (answer: touring constantly, putting out records, starting their own label, raising families, launching a music festival, developing a line of Hanson Brothers-branded "MMMHops" beer). As for the committed? They were psyched. See The Tiny Desk Performance All Songs TV Watch As Bon Iver's Justin Vernon Plays A Song To A Single Person Imagine: You are innocently enjoying yourself at the Berlin Michelberger Music festival when you are "kidnapped" after a set. A blindfold over your eyes, you are led through winding concrete hallways until you reach a small room. You sit in a chair and a wide, shallow copper bowl is placed over your head. Someone taps on the bowl four times - sending startling reverberations through your head - and then removes it. A voice whispers to you to take off your blindfold. You do and then, surprise! In the center of this small, concrete room, is Justin Vernon. See The Performance All Songs Considered Songs That Say 'Me Too' For the past two days women have overwhelmed social media with a truth often hidden in plain sight: One out of every six women has been subject to an attempted or completed rape during her lifetime. Countless more endure other forms of assault, abuse or harassment. Here is a list of songs in which artists said "me too," curated by NPR Music's Ann Powers. See The List, Hear The Songs All Songs Considered How Dan Deacon Collaborated With Rats To Make His Latest Film Score Deacon's music for the documentary Rat Film is a pulsing electronic soundscape made, in part, by rats themselves. He explains how in this track-by-track breakdown of the score. Read The Stories Behind The Songs

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