A Hawk And A Hacksaw built its reputation on performing music rooted in Eastern European folk traditions. Hear the New Mexico-based folk duo perform three new songs in the studio.

(All Photos by: Michael Katzif/WNYC)

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Ian Rubbish and the Bizarros say goodbye | SNL | 18/5/2013

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Someone asked who “all those people were”. This is mostly from memory, so if any of it’s wrong, blame me.

One of these bands isn’t real. 

Fred Armisen has the coolest friends.

Hawk and a Hacksaw in the studio. (Photo by @mkatzif / WNYC)

Watch Charli XCX cover Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” at Borderline Music in Chicago.

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Julia Holter “World,” from Loud City Song (out Aug. 20)

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From Q2 Music, take a tour of composer Jherek Bischoff’s childhood home: a tiny sailboat docked in a Seattle harbor.

How does a very rich and eminently successful artist with a superstar-all-from-a-home-movie girlfriend call us out? ‘Black Skinhead’ is somebody banging on your door in the middle of the night, hurtling out of Ye’s metal-plated face, predicting reactions before it’s halfway over. He rides an industrial-sounding, stadium-sized beat, calling Chicago, ‘Chiraq’ in a grainy echo. He associated himself with Malcolm X on ‘Good Morning,’ but then it was a joke. This time he’s serious. He says he’s going 400 mph, which we believe – he’s taken corners on two wheels on live TV before.

— Frannie Kelly on Kanye West’s two new tracks, which point fingers in every direction, include himself (via nprmusic)

Hear Emily Wells perform a richly textured solo set — complete with looping voices, electronic and acoustic drums, violin, and more — in the Soundcheck studio.

(Photos: Michael Katzif/WNYC)

Emily Wells in the studio. (Photo by @mkatzif / WNYC)

Hear Foras Road, the entrancing new album from the India-born, New York-based vocalist Falu and her band.