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In honor of Valentine's Day, we asked for your ideal romantic songs. On this week's All Songs Considered, we count down the 10 most popular tunes that make you swoon.

NPR listeners cast thousands of votes for the year's best music and regardless of how the votes fell, it was an exciting chance to pause and look back on what an incredible year it's been for music.

On this edition of All Songs Considered, we've got special sneak previews of some of the most anticipated albums of the coming months.

In her new book The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, author Natalie Angier says science doesn't have to be impossible, impenetrable or uncool.

A list of albums showcasing the stormy elegance, big ideas and transporting melodies of 2011.

This week marks 155 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered the famously short Gettysburg Address in 1863.

Recording around a single microphone, the North Dakota singer sounds as if he's performing in your living room. For these wonderfully honest stories, the fit is perfect.

Viva Elvis' reinvention of a familiar hit is shockingly great, but also fundamentally true to the original.

In "When I Write My Master's Thesis," Samson juggles a lively mind and a directionless heart.

We'll soon begin making a list of the year's best albums. Okkervil River and Of Montreal are back. Also, Steve Earle and Gillian Welch, Jeff Hanson, The Walkmen and The Broken West.