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Bob Boilen's 243 Favorite Concerts Of 2012
When you see 462 concerts in a single year, there's a lot to choose from. The ones that stuck with Bob Boilen in 2012 all featured the element of surprise.(Image credit: Lauren Rock/NPR)
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Top 10 World Music Albums Of 2012
This year, a youthful strain of techno-Afropop musicians stepped into the spotlight.(Image credit: Courtesy of the artist)
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10 Artists You Should Have Known In 2012
It's hard to keep track of new artists these days. So we asked our colleagues around the country to recommend recent discoveries from their communities. Download 10 songs that helped put these...
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The Black Arts: Making Jazz In The Mainstream
This year, the most popular records made by young jazz musicians reflected hip-hop, R&B and the black community where they came from. When they broke through, they made an ongoing conversation...
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Staff Picks: Our Favorite Music Books Of 2012
On subjects familiar (Beethoven's Fifth) and obscure (notoriously tight-lipped cult artists), our favorite writing about music dove deep and showed us new ways to love the sounds in our lives.(Image...
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NPR Music's 100 Favorite Songs Of 2012
This is what 2012 sounded like to us. These are the songs that made us smile, cried with us, put our hands in the air and brought us back down to earth.(Image credit: )
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NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2012
The albums that sum up our year span genres and borders. From Astro to Wadada Leo Smith, Fiona Apple to Frank Ocean, here are 50 albums that made 2012 great.(Image credit: Stephanie d'Otreppe/ NPR)
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The Best Rap Of 2012: A Conversation
The cohosts of NPR Music's Microphone Check got together to remember the year in hip-hop — the albums they had to have, the ones they loved with reservations and the performance they can't stop talking...
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2 Chainz: A Pop Star For All Of Us
He laces his bouncy, terse rhymes with a charisma reminiscent of another musician — Ringo Starr. (Image credit: Joseph Okpako/WireImage)
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The Year In Pop Charts: Return Of The Monoculture
Two things make for great years in pop music: variety and shared pleasure. After a handful of years when four-on-the-floor dance beats dominated radio, 2012 had both in spades.(Image credit: Matt...
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Top 10 Top 40 Of 2012
Ann Powers picks her favorite chart-topping, radio-dominating songs of 2012.(Image credit: Courtesy of the artist)
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What Happened To Music Writing This Year?
The question "what do readers want?" has hovered over any media business worth its advertising revenue for years, but in 2012, it took on more urgency. Knowing the answer to that question can be bad...
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The Most Stylish Music Videos Of 2012
It was a great year for videos that referenced high fashion, personal style, beautiful cinematography and a wide variety of clothing — from monks' robes to colorful suits — perfect for dancing.(Image...
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IMHO: A Survey About The Year In Music
We asked musicians, music industry folks, writers, programmers and DJs — fans all — to tell us how they saw 2012 in music. We sent them five questions asking what began and what fell apart, what made...
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In Memoriam: Musicians We Lost In 2012
NPR Music remembers the singers, instrumentalists, songwriters and personalities who died in 2012. Explore their musical legacies.(Image credit: David Corio/Getty Images)
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