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"No matter what, there's one thing you can't deny ... that I am giving it everything and leaving nothing," Brittany Howard says. Bobbi Rich/Island Records **hide caption

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Brittany Howard on Prince, break-up songs and giving 'everything and leaving nothing'

The best songs of 2024 (so far)

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The best songs of 2024 (so far)

Brittany Howard takes unexpected twists and turns on 'What Now'

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Brittany Howard takes unexpected twists and turns on 'What Now'

On 'What Now,' Brittany Howard is a virtuoso in pursuit of a flow state

Howard's vocal malleability allows her to access a whole spectrum of contradictory emotions and gender expressions. Medios y Media/Getty Images **hide caption

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New Music Friday: Brittany Howard and a new era of musical masters

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New Music Friday: Brittany Howard and a new era of musical masters

2024 Preview: The year's most anticipated albums

GRIP, the upcoming album from serpentwithfeet, is one NPR Music's most anticipated albums of 2024. Denzel Golatt/Courtesy of the artist **hide caption

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2024 Preview: The year's most anticipated albums

Brittany Howard is going to make her dreams come true

What Now, the second solo album from Brittany Howard, is out Feb. 9. Bobbi Rich/Courtesy of the artist **hide caption

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Brittany Howard is going to make her dreams come true

NPR Music 2021 Staff Picks: Cat Sposato

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Linda Diaz's 5 Favorite Tiny Desk Concerts

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Tiny Desk Playlist: 2021 Grammy Winners Who've Stopped By The Tiny Desk, Vol. 1

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Hear World Cafe Interviews With 12 Of This Year's Grammy Nominees

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Black Pumas On World Cafe

Watch Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf Episode 2 Featuring Brittany Howard

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Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf: Watch Our Judges' Favorite Entries Every Week

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'Hope, Rage And Cries For Help': 5 Essential Tiny Desk Concerts

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World Cafe's Best Songs Of 2019

Brittany Howard made NPR Music's No.1 album of 2019 with Jaime. She's on our playlist of best songs of the year, too. Brantley Guttierez/Courtesy of the artist **hide caption

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Station Breaks: Our Favorite Live Sessions Of 2019

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Poll Results: NPR Listeners Pick The Top Albums Of 2019

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Poll Results: NPR Listeners Pick The Top Albums Of 2019

NPR Music's 25 Best Albums Of 2019

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Heavy Rotation: Public Radio's Most Popular Songs Of 2019

All Songs Considered: The Year In Music 2019

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ASC Year in Review 2019

The 2010s: A Jazz Revival In Black Music

Pianist and producer Robert Glasper has spent much of the past decade reconnecting jazz with popular black music, transforming the work of artists like rapper Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus and Brittany Howard. Peter Van Breukelen/Redferns/Getty Images **hide caption

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The 2010s: A Jazz Revival In Black Music

Brittany Howard: Tiny Desk Concert

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