The Week In Music: What To Read Now That Isn't About The Hurricane

Read three music stories to divert and edify you while we all try to get back to normal, from one-man black metal to a profile on rapper Meek Mill.

A group is trying to save the station’s massive tape archive: music, poetry, drama andspeeches that tell the story of the East African nation since before its independence.

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I’ve never missed two people the same way — it’s always different for me. I’ve never fallen in love with someone and had the same exact kind of feeling come over me. So I think that there are all these different mixtures of emotions that go into individual feelings that you feel for individual people. And, yeah, most of the time it doesn’t work out.

— Taylor Swift in an interview with NPR’s Guy Raz

Hear a reunited Afghan Whigs play “Crazy” and more on World Cafe.

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Congratulations to Alt-J on winning the 2012 Mercury Prize! Watch the English band perform “Breezeblocks” at KCRW.

Earl Sweatshirt, “Chum”

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Elegancia Tropical is filled with joyful energy, nostalgia, spiritual questions, love struggles and, as always, a deep love of Latin American culture and music, combined with curiosity regarding electronic beats.

Hear Bomba Estereo’s Li Saumet pick her favorite music on Alt.Latino.

Do you like confetti cannons? Shot in a single take, but presented out of order, watch the new music video for Walk Off the Earth’s “Red Hands.”

Terrorism, worrying about China and immigration from Mexico — these sound like topics for Obama vs. Romney, but these pressing political issues have also found their way into today’s opera houses. Watch excerpts from five contemporary operas that grapple with these hot potatoes head-on.