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World Cafe Looks Back: Uncle Tupelo's Family Tree

The extraordinary and influential alt-country group was a standard-bearer for the genre, and later spawned Wilco and Son Volt after it broke up in the mid-'90s.
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Rocksmith: Guitar Hero Gets Real(er)

A new video game makes use of that guitar that's been hibernating in your attic.
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Joe Henry's Raw, Raucous 'Reverie'

The producer and singer-songwriter's 12th solo album features a touching tribute to Vic Chesnutt.
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Reviving A Forgotten Operatic Masterpiece Of The Holocaust

Unearthed after 40 years of Soviet repression, Mieczyslaw Weinberg's opera The Passenger is packing the English National Opera.
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Coldplay's 'Mylo Xyloto' Has Mass Appeal

The superstar rock band once again enlists the help of Brian Eno for its fifth album.
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World Cafe Looks Back: Coldplay

Trace the band's maturation with three interviews from this past decade — including a recent visit to World Cafe to discuss its new, Brian Eno-produced dance-rock record, Mylo Xyloto.

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