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Hazel Cills

Hazel Cills

Editor, NPR Music

Hazel Cills is an editor at NPR Music. Before coming to NPR in 2021, Cills was a culture reporter at Jezebel, where she wrote about music and popular culture. She was also a writer for MTV News and a founding staff writer for the teen publication Rookie magazine.

Her music journalism and criticism have appeared in outlets including The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Pitchfork and more. She graduated from New York University with a degree in art history and cultural criticism.

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Tuesday

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And the Oscar for Original Song goes to...

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Tuesday

Circuit des Yeux's "Megaloner," from the album Halo On The Inside, is one of the songs we can't stop playing this week. Dana Trippe/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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The Contenders, Vol. 3: The songs we can't stop playing this week

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Tuesday

FKA Twigs' latest album, EUSEXUA, includes "Perfect Stranger," one of the songs we can't stop playing this week. Jordan Hemingway/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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The Contenders, Vol. 1: The songs we can't stop playing this week

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Tuesday

Tuesday

Freak Slug's "Ya Ready," from her latest album, I Blow Out Big Candles, is one of the tracks we can't stop playing this week. El Hardwick/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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The Contenders, Vol. 21: The songs we can't stop playing this week

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Friday

Laura Marling's new album, Patterns in Repeat, is out today. Courtesy of Partisan Records hide caption

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New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 25

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Tuesday

Jack Nicholson in a memorable moment from The Shining. The 1980 film's original music, by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, is among our picks for the most terrifying scores of all time. All Star Picture Library / Alamy/Warner Bros. hide caption

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The most terrifying film scores of all time

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Tuesday

Beabadoobee's "California," from her album This is How Tomorrow Moves, is one of the tracks we can't stop playing this week. Jules Moskovtchenko/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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The Contenders, Vol. 18: The songs we can't stop playing this week

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Friday

Following her death, SOPHIE's family says she left behind a collection of hundreds of unreleased songs, as well as a follow-up album to her debut. But the album wasn't finished. James Bentley for NPR hide caption

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The album SOPHIE left behind has been finished

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Friday

Miranda Lambert leads the pack in a crowded field of new music releases

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For Miranda Lambert's 10th studio album, Postcards From Texas, the country star recorded in her home state for the first time since she was a teenager. James Macari/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Tuesday

A recently discovered lost recording from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, titled Chain of Light, is one of the most-anticipated albums due out this fall. Robert Leslie/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Fall preview 2024

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Wednesday

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Friday

This week, we got new albums from Tinashe, Post Malone, Charly Bliss and Morgan Wade

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Tinashe's new album, Quantum Baby, is out Friday, Aug. 16. Nice Life Recording Company hide caption

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New Music Friday: The best albums out Aug. 16

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Tuesday

"Love Me Je Je," from the Tems album Born in the Wild, is one of our summer song picks. Bet Bettencourt/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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S.O.S.: Songs of summer

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Thursday

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This summer's music charts are dominated by pop girl underdogs

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Friday

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Friday

NEW MUSIC FRIDAY - JUNE 21st

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Tuesday

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The best songs of 2024 (so far)

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