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Consider your tax dollars put to work: National Public Radio is streaming unreleased albums from St. Vincent, Conor Oberst and Jason Lytle.
The new album streams are part of NPR Music's beloved "First Listen" series, which in the past has included the likes of Bob Dylan, Neko Case, Animal Collective, Andrew Bird, Camera Obscura and Neil Young.
Check out the album previews here.
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You can hear lots of music recorded live at NPR's Mountain Stage page as well. If you like it live, this is for you:
www.npr.org/mountainstage