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    All Songs Considered – NPR

    Since launching in 2000, All Songs Considered has been NPR’s flagship program for music discovery, artist interviews and conversations with friends and fellow music lovers about the really big questions, like what was the best decade for music, are there albums everyone can agree on, and what do you put on when you need a good cry? Weekly, with host Robin Hilton and the NPR Music family.

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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Nov. 15 Nov 15, 2024

    NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen are your guides to the most compelling releases out on November 15.
    Featured Albums:
    • FLO, Access All Areas
    • Dwight Yoakam, Brighter Days
    • Ganavya, Daughter of a Temple
    • Wussy, Cincinnati Ohio
    Check out the longer list of albums out Nov. 15 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at https://npr.org/music.
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    Alt.Latino's New Music Roundup Nov 13, 2024

    Alt.Latino hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre recorded their latest new music guide on the streets of Spain.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 20: The songs we can't stop playing this week Nov 12, 2024

    We update our running list of the year's best songs with more calming sounds from Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi, the electronic artist Jon Hopkins, Muno singer Katie Gavin's new solo album and more.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Jónsi: "Flicker," from First Light
    2. Katie Gavin: "Aftertaste," from What A Relief
    3. Jon Hopkins: "part viii - nothing is lost," from RITUAL
    4. Katie Malco: "Fatal Attraction (feat. Laura Stevenson)" (Single)
    5. Clairo: "Add Up My Love," from Charm
    6. Max Richter: "Movement, Before All Flowers," from In A Landscape
    Enjoy the show? Tell a friend and leave us a review wherever you listen to podcats.
    Questions, comments, suggestions or feedback of any kind always welcome: allsongs@npr.org
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Nov. 8 Nov 08, 2024

    NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen are your guides to the most compelling albums released this Friday.
    Featured albums:
    • Ab-Soul, Soul Burger
    • Jamey Johnson, Midnight Gasoline
    • Our Girl, The Good Kind
    • Various Artists, Like Someone I Know: A Celebration of Margo Guryan
    Check out the longer list of albums out Nov. 8 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at https://npr.org/music.
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    Alt.Latino's Spain Soundtrack Nov 06, 2024

    Alt.Latino hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre are in Spain for a music conference. On this episode, they share their favorite discoveries from Bilbao, San Sebastián and beyond.
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    More songs to calm the nerves Nov 03, 2024

    In our second installment of blood-slowing songs we take a deep breath and let it out with the music of Max Richter, Hania Rani, Fleet Foxes, Yasmin Williams and more.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Joan Shelley: "Easy Now," from Over and Even
    2.Fleet Foxes: "Helplessness Blues," from Helplessness Blues
    3.Theo Alexander: "re; Waiting," from Animadversions
    4.Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher: "There Will Be Hope," from Inner Symphonies
    5. Nicholas Britell: "Eden (Harlem)," from If Beale Street Could Talk
    6. Max Richter: "Dream 3 (in the midst of my life)," from From Sleep
    7. Stars of the Lid: "Even If You're Never Awake," from And Their Refinement of the Decline
    8. Iron & Wine: "Passing Afternoon," from Our Endless Numbered Days
    9. Yasmin Williams: "Juvenescence," from Urban Driftwood
    10. Gidon Kremer & Keith Jarrett: "Fratres (for violin and piano)," from Arvo Párt: Tabula Rasa
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Nov. 1 Nov 01, 2024

    NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen are your guides to the most compelling new releases of the week, including the first album in 16 years by The Cure and a surprise release by Tyler, the Creator.
    Featured albums:
    • The Cure, 'Songs of a Lost World'
    • Tyler, the Creator, 'Chromokopia'
    • Willie Nelson, 'Last Leaf on the Tree'
    • Haley Heynderickx, 'Seed of a Seed'
    Check out the longer list of albums out November 1 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at https://npr.org/music.
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    How hip-hop reached global domination Oct 29, 2024

    Over half a century, hip-hop has grown into a globally dominant musical and cultural force while remaining stubbornly, vitally local.
    When DJ Kool Herc spun records at a small party in the Bronx in August of 1973, no one would have predicted his unique style would give birth to the most influential and dominant music in the world: hip-hop. In this special episode, NPR Music editors Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Sheldon Pearce are joined by contributor Christina Lee to look at how and why the music has managed to remain a local phenomenon, even as it's taken hold of the world.
    Note: This episode original ran in Aug. 2023 for our special coverage of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 25 Oct 25, 2024

    NPR Music's Ann Powers and Hazel Cills are your guides to the week's most compelling new releases.
    Featured albums:
    • Amythyst Kiah, Still + Bright
    • Soccer Mommy, Evergreen
    • Laura Marling, Patterns in Repeat
    • Elmiene, Anyway I Can
    • Anna Butterss, Mighty Vertebrate
    Plus: A discussion of unconventional album release strategies.
    Check out the complete list of albums out Oct. 25 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at https://npr.org/music.
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    Alt.Latino's new music round-up: Elsa y Elmar, Alih Jey and Little Jesus Oct 23, 2024

    Anamaria Sayre brings some exciting new sounds coming out Mexico City (while recording from Mexico City) including sweet new music from Colombian artist Elsa Y Elmar, while Felix Contreras shares new jazz-classical out of Barcelona and more.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Elsa y Elmar, "Palacio"
    •Alih Jey, "Luz de Gas"
    •Little Jesus, "Tierra Llamando A Sant"
    •Lucia Fumero, "Folklore II"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. Editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 19: The songs we can't stop playing this week Oct 22, 2024

    We debate the pros and cons of small-town living through the music of Christian Lee Hutson, Youth Lagoon, Bartees Strange and more in our biweekly update of the year's best songs.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Christian Lee Hutson: "Carousel Horses," from Paradise Pop. 10
    2. Youth Lagoon: "My Beautiful Girl" (single)
    3. Memorials: "Cut It Like A Diamond," from Memorial Waterslides
    4. Bartees Strange: "Sober," from Horror
    5. Sam Phillips: "I Wanted To Be Alone," from A Boot And A Shoe (20th anniversary edition)
    6. Immanuel Wilkins: "MOTION" (feat. June McDoom) from Blues Blood
    Enjoy the show? Tell a friend and leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 18 Oct 18, 2024

    NPR Music's Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to this week's most compelling new musical offerings. For October 18, their selections include an array of ambitious, melodic and emotional new albums spanning genres.
    Plus: celebrating the arrival of a new music website and considering what drives us to write and talk about music in the first place.
    Featured albums:
    • Joy Oladokun, 'Observations From a Crowded Room'
    • CKay, 'EMOTIONS'
    • Kelly Lee Owens, 'Dreamstate'
    • Porridge Radio, 'Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me'
    • Bon Iver, 'SABLE,'
    Check out our longer list of albums out Oct. 18 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at https://npr.org/music.
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    Celebrating the legacy of Celia Cruz Oct 16, 2024

    To celebrate the release of a new book from NPR Music, How Women Made Music, as well as the 50th anniversary this year of the album Celia & Johnny, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre walk through their favorite songs by the legendary Celia Cruz, alongside the artist's niece Linda Pritchett.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    • Celia Cruz, "Bemba Colorá"
    • Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, "Yiri Yiri Bon"
    • Celia Cruz, "La Negra Tiene Tumbao"
    • Celia Cruz, "Quimbara"
    • Celia Cruz, "Cuando Salí de Cuba"
    • Celia Cruz, "La vida es un carnaval"

    Audio for this episode of     Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. Editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The most terrifying film scores of all time Oct 15, 2024

    We celebrate spooky season with an unnerving mix of songs from our favorite horror movie scores, including The Shining, Under The Skin, Hereditary and more.
    Enjoy the show? Tell a friend and leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.
    Questions, comments, suggestions or feedback of any kind always welcome: allsongs@npr.org
    Featured songs and films:
    1. Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind: "Main Title" and "Clockworks (Bloody Elevators)," from The Shining
    2.Mark Korven: "The Goat & The Mayhem," from The Witch
    3. Goblin: "Sighs," from Suspiria
    4. Hildur Guǒnadóttir: "The Door," from Chernobyl
    5. John Carpenter: "Main Title," from Halloween
    6. Colin Stetson: "Mothers & Daughters," from Hereditary
    7. Mica Levi: "Lipstick To Void," from Under the Skin
    8. Cristobal Tapia De Veer: "Laura Smile," from Smile
    9. Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow: "The Alien," from Annihilation
    10. Bobby Krlic: "Gassed," from Midsommar

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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 11 Oct 11, 2024

    The rapper-turned-country star Jelly Roll, who has had a major breakthrough in Nashville in the last couple of years, leads the pack of the most exciting albums out on Friday, October 11.
    As NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and WRTI's Nate Chinen discuss, his new album Beautifully Broken is a powerful (and sometimes overwhelming) portrait of recovery and empathy for those grappling with addiction.
    Also on the show this week: The second album from punk teens The Linda Lindas feels like confirmation of a promising career; Samara Joy and Immanuel Wilkins put two different approaches to the modern jazz vocal album on display; E L U C I D combines influences from Miles Davis to Public Enemy into a harrowing experience of modern indie rap and Charli XCX's remix album leads us to consider the tradition of artists reworking their own songs.
    Featured albums:
    • Jelly Roll, 'Beautifully Broken'
    • The Linda Lindas, 'No Obligation'
    • Samara Joy, 'Portrait'
    • Immanuel Wilkins, 'Blues Blood'
    • E L U C I D, 'REVELATOR'
    Check out our long list of albums out Oct. 11 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at npr.org/music.
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    Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Rosalía, Twanguero and Wyatt Flores Oct 09, 2024

    Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre are back with a new music show, featuring Rosalía, Helado Negro, Wyatt Flores and more.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    • Twanguero, "Rumba #2"
    • Twanguero, "La Leyenda de Cañaveral"
    • Rosalía, "Omega (feat. Ralphie Choo)"
    • Wyatt Flores, "Oh Susanna"
    • Helado Negro, pablopablo, "Lejos De Más"
    • Troker, "El Novio (Versión Mariachi)"
    • Los Sufridos, Bad Gyal, "Duro de Verdad pt. 2"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Simon Rentner. Editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 18: The songs we can't stop playing this week Oct 08, 2024

    Reflections on regret from beabadoobee and Bon Iver, deep sonic meditations from Nala Sinephro and Jill Fraser, and more updates to our running list of the year's best songs.
    Featured songs and artists:
    1. beabadoobee: "California," from This is How Tomorrow Moves
    2. Bon Iver: "S P E Y S I D E," from SABLE
    3. Mabe Fratti: "Kravitz," from Sentir que no sabe
    4. Jem: "Come On Closer," from Finally Woken (20th Anniversary Remastered Edition)
    5. Nala Sinephro: "Continuum 3," from Endlessness
    6. Jill Fraser: "Beautiful Summer," from Earthly Pleasures
    Enjoy the show? Tell a friend and leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 4 Oct 04, 2024

    NPR Music's Lars Gotrich and Sheldon Pearce round up the most exciting albums out this Friday, and reflect on the history of instrumental music as protest.
    Featured albums:
    • The Smile, 'Cutouts'
    • Blood Incantation, 'Absolute Elsewhere'
    • Half Waif, 'See You At The Maypole'
    • Darius Jones, 'Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)'
    • Yasmin Williams, 'Acadia'
    • Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 'NO​ ​TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28​,​340 DEAD'
    Questions, comments, suggestions or feedback of any kind always welcome: allsongs@npr.org
    For a longer list of new albums out Oct. 4 and to stream our New Music Friday playlist, visit https://npr.org/music.
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    The songs we can't stop playing on repeat Oct 02, 2024
    Alt.Latino is usually all about sharing new music across Latin America, but what about the older cuts Ana and Felix are obsessed with?
    On this episode, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras share the music they've been playing on repeat, from beloved classics by greats like Ella Fitzgerald to surprising new discoveries out of Mexico like Paloma Morphy.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Paloma Morphy, "me faltas tú"
    •George Shearing Quintet, "Juana Palangana"
    •Carin León and Bolela, "Aviso importante"
    •Chick Corea Trio, "Spain"
    •Alex Ferreira, "Un Cariñito"
    •Alex Ferreira, "Un Cariñito (Versión Acústica)"
    •Ella Fitzgerald, "Angel Eyes"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Taylor Haney. Editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    'How Women Made Music' Oct 01, 2024
    How Women Made Music, a new book out now from NPR, considers what the canon of popular music would look like without men.
    On this episode, we dig into the book and talk about the greatest albums and songs by women and other marginalized voices, with NPR Music's Ann Powers, contributor Marissa Lorusso and host Robin Hilton.
    Questions, comments, suggestions and feedback of any kind always welcome: allsongs@npr.org
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Sept. 27 Sep 27, 2024

    As NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers discuss on this week's episode, there's a thread of loss running through some of the most notable, thrilling albums out on September 27.
    From the self-titled, posthumous album by the Scottish electronic producer SOPHIE to the harsh, alien sounds created by Alan Sparhawk on White Roses, My God, his first solo album following the death of his wife Mimi Parker, who was also his musical partner for decades in the great band Low, tributes to loved ones lost and voices from the beyond abound.
    Plus: The star-studded debut album from Toronto poet and songwriter Mustafa, an adventurous bluegrass album (emphasis on grass) by roots champ Billy Strings, reliably adventurous R&B from Bilal and another posthumous release, the final release from the beloved electronic act Broadcast.
    Feedback, questions, comments or any suggestions always welcome: allsongs@npr.org
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    Alt.Latino talks all the surprise nominations for the 2024 Latin Grammys Sep 25, 2024

    Wait a minute — does Alt.Latino actually agree with a lot of the Latin Recording Academy's nominations this year?
    Felix Contreras, Anamaria Sayre and reporter Isabella Gomez Sarmiento run through as many of the whopping 58 categories as they can in this episode dissecting the nominations for the upcoming ceremony.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Grupo Frontera, "CANSADO DE SUFRIR"
    •Grupo Frontera and Yahritza y Su Esencia, "LAS FLORES"
    •Grupo Frontera and Christian Nodal, "Ya Pedo Quién Sabe"
    •Dayme Arocena, "A fuego lento"
    •Hamilton de Holanda, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, "Saudade, Saudade"
    •Kali Uchis and Karol G, "Labios Mordidos"
    •Karol G, "MI EX TENÍA RAZÓN"
    •Latin Mafia, "Julieta"
    •Kevin Aguilar, "Bonita"
    •Nicolle Horbath, "Carmen"
    •Nicole Horts, "Bitch3"
    •Ana Frango Elétrico, "Dela"
    •Angélica Olivo, Juan Pablo Contreras, and Orquesta Latino Mexicana, "La Minerva - III. Himno a la Mujer"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 17: The songs we can't stop playing this week Sep 24, 2024

    We update our running list of the year's best songs with a slice of pop perfection from Oso Oso, harrowing sounds from Colin Stetson, a blissful journey with composer Christopher Rountree and more.
    Featured songs and artists:
    1. Oso Oso: "dog without its bark," from life till bones
    2. Christopher Rountree: "Almanac," from 3BPM
    3. Colin Stetson: "Hollowing," from The love it took to leave you
    4. Emily D'Angelo: "Freezing," from Freezing
    5. Lia Kohl: "Tennis Court Light, Snow," from Normal Sounds
    6. Gabriela Ortiz: Kauyumari, from Revolución Diamantina
    Questions, comments, suggestions or any feedback at all always welcome: allsongs@npr.org
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Sept. 20 Sep 20, 2024

    NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Lars Gotrich provide a guide the most exciting new releases out today. This week, the selections include some recordings that are new and some that are as much as a half-century old, verging on mythological.
    The producer Jamie xx began his career as a teenager making beats for the moody electronic band The xx. His solo recordings, including the new album In Waves, have tapped into a higher energy and a wider range of sounds. The saxophonist Nubya Garcia's new album, Odyssey, is as adventurous as the title sounds. And the Kansas City-based Blackstarkids swing between electronic pop, hip-hop and indie rock sounds that feel like they stepped off a time machine directly from the 1990s.
    Plus: A pair of releases that package previously unreleased material by Bob Dylan and Galaxie 500 sparks a conversation about bootlegs, alternate versions and other rare and unreleased favorites.
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    Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Manu Chao, Linda Diaz and Solo Fernández Sep 18, 2024

    This week on Alt.Latino, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras talk about an exciting new album from Manu Chao on the way — his first in 17 years — and their favorite recent songs from artists like the Dominican indie rock band Solo Fernández, ethereal pop from Tiny Desk Contest Winner Linda Diaz and more.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Janiero feat. André Viamonte, "LEGO"
    •Manu Chao, "São Paulo Motoboy"
    •Solo Fernández, "TELESCOPIO"
    •Solo Fernández, "BROOKLYN"
    •Solo Fernández, "TÚ NUNCA DEJARÁS DE SER POESÍA"
    •Linda Diaz feat. Solomon Fox, "Watching Ourselves Die"
    •Julieta Rada, "Baile del Candombe"
    •Amaia Miranda, "Mientras vivas brilla"
    •Nick Drake, "Pink Moon"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    Arcade Fire's 'Funeral' at 20 Sep 17, 2024

    We look back at Arcade Fire's monumental debut album, why it was so special, the ways it changed the musical landscape, and how it sounds two decades later.
    Questions, comments or any feedback at all always welcome: allsongs@npr.org
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Sept. 13 Sep 13, 2024

    NPR Music's Ann Powers and Hazel Cills are your guides to the best music out this Friday, Sept. 13, including the 10th studio album by Miranda Lambert. Postcards From Texas is a new chapter for the onetime Nashville Star contestant who has become one of that industry town's most reliable songwriters and stars — and also a return to her home state.
    There's more, including a album by Robyn Hitchcock made up mostly of covers of songs from 1967, a year he describes as "a portal between childhood and the adult world." Plus: three ambitious albums by indie faves stretching their sounds, and a consideration of the way the classic "outlaw" label applies to the careers of women who break the rules.
    Featured albums:
    • Miranda Lambert, Postcards from Texas
    • Nilüfer Yanya, My Method Actor
    • Foxing, Foxing
    • Robyn Hitchcock, 1967: Vacations in the Past
    • My Brightest Diamond, Fight the Real Terror
    For the complete list of albums out Sept. 13 and to stream our New Music Friday playlist, visit https://npr.org/music.
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    Alt.Latino's 'El Tiny' takeover is back — and this year it's all about love Sep 11, 2024

    'El Tiny' season at the Tiny Desk launches next week and this year it's all about love — familial and romantic, with drama fit for a telenovela. Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras preview this year's line-up, sharing a sneak peek at what 2024's 'El Tiny' has to offer.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Juanes, "Mala Gente"
    •Juanes, "A Dios Le Pido"
    •Ivan Cornejo, "Ya Te Perdí"
    •Okan, "La Reina Del Norte"
    •Eladio Carrión, "Mama's Boy"
    •Daniel, Me Estás Matando, "Lo Hice, Te Dejé"
    •Danny Ocean, "Me Rehúso"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Taylor Haney, with editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 16: The songs we can't stop playing this week Sep 10, 2024

    We update our running list of the year's best songs with the shapeshifting rock of Caleb Landry Jones, Angélica Garcia's dystopian grooves, a searing look at infidelity from Damien Jurado and more.
    Featured songs and artists:
    1. Caleb Landry Jones: "Hey Dawn," from Hey Gary, Hey Dawn
    2. Angélica Garcia: "El Que," from Gemelo
    3. Damien Jurado & The Fremont Abbeye: "Sheets ('24)," from Sheets ('24)
    4. Laura Marling: "Patterns," from Patterns In Repeat
    5. Carlos Ares: "Cigarra," from Peregrino
    6. Melt-Banana: "Stopgap," from 3+5
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Sept. 6 Sep 06, 2024

    NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers take you on a tour of the most exciting albums out Friday, Sept. 6
    Featured albums:
    • LL Cool J, 'The FORCE'
    • MJ Lenderman, 'Manning Fireworks'
    • Nala Sinephro, 'Endlessness'
    • The Dare, 'What's Wrong with New York?'
    • Toro Y Moi, 'Hole Erth'
    For the complete list of new albums out this week and to stream our New Music Friday playlist, visit https://npr.org/music.
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    New music from Alt.Latino Sep 04, 2024

    Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras play some of their favorite new songs from the last few months, featuring globe-spanning electronica from Colombian producer Sinego, border-crossing new music from La Doña, nuanced salsa from Spanish Harlem Orchestra and more.
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    Fall preview 2024 Sep 03, 2024

    We look ahead to the final big push of releases for 2024, with fall albums from Mount Eerie, SOPHIE, Soccer Mommy, a newly discovered Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan recording and more.
    Featured albums:
    1. SOPHIE: SOPHIE
    2. Mount Eerie: Night Palace
    3. Dua Saleh: I Should Call Them
    4. Kim Deal: Nobody Loves You More
    5. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Chain Of Light
    6. Soccer Mommy: Evergreen
    7. Katie Gavin: What A Relief
    8. Oliver Coates: Throb, shiver, arrow of time
    9. Nubya Garcia: Odyssey
    Other most-anticipated releases for fall 2024:
    Bright Eyes: Five Dice, All Threes
    Porridge Radio: Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me
    Jamie xx: In Waves
    Thurston Moore: Flow Critical Lucidity
    Alan Sparhawk: White Roses, My God
    Billy Strings: Highway Prayers
    Christian Lee Hutson: Paradise Pop. 10
    Mickey Guyton: House On Fire
    Broadcast: Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000-2006
    Dawn Richard, Spencer Zahn: Quiet in a World Full of Noise
    Orla Gartland: Everybody Needs a Hero
    Yasmin Williams: Acadia
    The Linda Lindas: No Obligation
    Japandroids: Fate & Alcohol
    Laura Marling: Patterns in Repeat
    Pixies: The Night the Zombies Came
    Charley Crockett: Visions of Dallas
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Aug. 30 Aug 30, 2024

    The best albums out this week include Wild God from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Doechii's Alligator Bites Never Heal, Jon Hopkins' Ritual and more.
    Featured Albums:
    • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Wild God
    • Doechii, Alligator Bites Never Heal
    • Enumclaw, Home In Another Life
    • Ellen Reid, Big Majestic
    • Laurie Anderson, Amelia
    • Jon Hopkins, Ritual
    Other notable releases for Aug. 30:
    • Muni Long, Revenge
    • Emily D'Angelo, Freezing
    • AWOLNATION, The Phantom Five
    • Big Sean, Better Me Than You
    • Shemekia Copeland, Blame It on Eve
    • Tycho, Infinite Health
    • Zedd, Telos
    • Chelsea Wolfe, Undone EP
    • Tank & the Bangas, The Heart, The Mind, The Soul
    • The Cactus Blossoms, Every Time I Think About You
    • Caleb Caudle, Sweet Critters
    • Amy Rigby, Hang in There With Me
    • Noah Kahan, Stick Season (Live From Fenway Park)
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    The Contenders, Vol. 15: The songs we can't stop playing this week Aug 27, 2024

    The latest update to our running list of the year's best songs includes tips for staying engaged, being happy and letting go from Arooj Aftab, Great Grandpa, Japandroids and more.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Arooj Aftab: "Raat Ki Rani," from Night Reign
    2. The Smile: "Don't Get Me Started" (Single)
    3. Japandroids: "D&T," from Fate & Alcohol
    4. Peter Cat Recording Co.: "I Deny Me," from Beta
    5. Great Grandpa: "Kid" (Single)
    6. Yasmin Williams: "Virga (feat. Darlingside)," from Acadia
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Aug. 23 Aug 23, 2024

    NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to seven anticipated albums out Aug. 23. During the second half of the episode, the two dig into the mercurial nature of the album format in 2024.
    Featured albums:
    - Sabrina Carpenter, 'Short n' Sweet'
    - Lainey Wilson, 'Whirlwind'
    - Illuminati hotties, 'POWER'
    - Fontaines D.C., 'Romance'
    - Heems, 'Veena'
    - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, 'Woodland'
    - Magdalena Bay, 'Imaginal Disk'
    See the longer list of albums out August 23 and stream our New Music Friday playlist at https://npr.org/music.
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    The sound of Venezuelan protest music over the last 30 years Aug 21, 2024

    Over the past month thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets to protest the disputed election of president Nicolás Maduro, while Venezuelan artists like Danny Ocean use music to reflect on this political moment. But Ocean's work is just one data point in a long history of music from Venezuela that embodies the political opinions and emotions of those within the country and the diaspora.
    On this week's episode, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre are joined by producer Isabella Gomez Sarmiento to walk through crucial moments in Venezuela's political history over the last 30 years, and the music that soundtracked it.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Yordano, "Por estas calles"
    •Carlos Baute, "Yo me quedo en Venezuela"
    •Canserbero, "Es Épico"
    •Danny Ocean, "Me Rehúso"
    •Apache, "Rompiendo el Hielo"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Taylor Haney, with editorial support from Hazel Cills, Zach Thompson, Tony Cavin and Didi Schanche. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    Nick Cave on the encounters that brought him to 'Wild God' Aug 20, 2024

    On August 30, the Australian-born rock titan Nick Cave will release Wild God, a new album with his band The Bad Seeds. It's a high point in Cave's career, and NPR Music's Ann Powers spoke with him about the struggles — personal, musical and religious — he faced on the road to making the album.
    Wild God is filled with songs about encounters with the divine, which does not always take a benevolent form. And it follows a decade in which Cave, having publicly faced tragedy in his own life, has evolved from post-punk's louchest fallen angel into a revered figure among his audience in a new way: a dignified seeker whose courage and wisdom resounds beyond musical boundaries thanks to advice he has shared in interviews, writing projects and public appearances. Perhaps it's not surprising that so many of the songs reckon with the moment of revelation or transformation, or the demand for conversion from what Cave describes as "a suffering god ... a god that is embedded in the world."
    As for the state of his own religious conviction, Cave says that the struggle is the point: "I would say I'm in the process of conversion," he tells Powers. Wherever he is on that road, he's found something ecstatic to share.
    Click here to read a transcript of this interview and hear songs from the album Wild God.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Aug. 16 Aug 16, 2024

    NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Hazel Cills give you a quick rundown of the most notable albums out Friday, Aug. 16, including Post Malone's country project, F-1 Trillion, Tinashe's seventh LP Quantum Baby, and Charly Bliss's first new record in five years.
    Featured Albums:
    - Tinashe, Quantum Baby
    - Post Malone, F-1 Trillion
    - Charly Bliss, Forever
    - Morgan Wade, Obsessed
    - Starflyer 59, Lust For Gold
    - Palehound, Live at First Congregational Church
    Visit https://npr.org/music to see the longer list of Aug. 16 releases and stream our New Music Friday playlist.
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    The funniest songs of all time Aug 13, 2024

    "Weird Al" Yankovic helps curate a mix of some of the funniest songs of all time, from classics like Tom Lehrer's "The Elements," to more fringe discoveries from The Hazzards, Tonio K. and more.
    Note: This episode originally ran on Apr. 9, 2024.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out August 9 Aug 09, 2024

    NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers survey the new albums out August 9, ranging from Ravyn Lenae's focused R&B to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's scuzzed-up glam-rock and an elegant solo piano album recorded by Japanese pop star and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto just months before his death in 2023.
    Plus: A new album made by 39-year-old American bassist esperanza spalding and 81-year-old Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento leads to a discussion of collaborations across generations.
    Featured Albums:
    • Ravyn Lenae, Bird's Eye
    • Beabadoobee, This Is How Tomorrow Moves
    • King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Flight b741
    • Latto, Sugar Honey Iced Tea
    • Ryuichi Sakamoto, Opus
    • Oso Oso, Life Till Bones
    • Thee Marloes, Perak
    • Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding, Milton + esperanza
    Links:
    • Sidney Madden's interview with Latto from season 2 of Louder Than A Riot
    • Ann Powers reviews Zach Bryan's Springsteen-mythologizing album The Great American Bar Scene
    • Watch a Tiny Desk (Home) concert by Milton Nascimento and esperanza spalding recorded in Nascimento's living room in Rio de Janeiro
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    Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Danny Ocean, Girl Ultra and Superfónicos Aug 07, 2024

    Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre run through their favorite new music, including new work from Venezuelan artist Danny Ocean in the midst of the country's political crisis, Girl Ultra leaning into her techno side, funky, electro-cumbia from Superfónicos and more.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Superfónicos, "Renaceré"
    •Girl Ultra, "lalala"
    •Fuerza Regida, "TUQLO"
    •Danny Ocean, "por la pequeña Venecia"
    •Lisa Morales, "Hermanitas in the Rain"
    •Jazz Orishas, "Deniye"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Taylor Haney, with editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The golden age of slacker rock Aug 06, 2024

    Thirty years after the release of Beck's "Loser," we look back at its impact on the rise of slacker rock and how we still hear its influence today.
    Note: This episode originally ran on Feb. 27, 2024.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out August 2 Aug 02, 2024

    NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Sheldon Pearce dig deep into the latest release by bassist Meshell Ndegeocello, who, more than 30 years into her career, continues to melt the boundaries between genres. Her latest album, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin, is being released on the centennial of the birth of the author and activist, and overflows with musical, political and historical ideas.
    Daoud and Sheldon also share new albums and EPs by Khalid, Orville Peck, Moses Sumney, Maren Morris, Smashing Pumpkins, Killer Mike and more.
    Featured Albums:
    • Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
    • Khalid, Sincere
    • Orville Peck, Stampede
    • Moses Sumney, Sophcore
    • Maren Morris, Intermission
    • Killer Mike, Songs for Saints and Sinners
    Other notable albums out August 2:
    • Smashing Pumpkins, Aghori Mhori Mei
    • Chrystabelle and David Lynch, Cellophane Memories
    • JPEGMAFIA, I Lay Down My Life For You
    • Brigitte Calls Me Baby, The Future Is Our Way Out
    • Los Lonely Boys, Resurrection
    • Tones and I, Beautifully Ordinary
    • X, Smoke & Fiction
    • WHY?, The Well I Fell Into
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    S.O.S.: Songs of summer Jul 30, 2024

    These aren't the big bangers and Top 40 hits designed to capitalize on the typical summer vibes. We instead play the songs that feel like summer or say summer to us.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Kaytranada and Rochelle Jordan: "Lover/Friend," from 'Timeless'
    2. HUGEL: "Patadas de Ahogado / LATIN MAFIA (Rework)" (single)
    3. Keaton Henson: "Sandwalking," from 'Somnambulant Cycles'
    4. Tems: "Love Me Je Je," from 'Born in the Wild'
    5. Karol G: "Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido" (single)
    6. Mary Lattimore: "I Spent the Day Inside" (single)
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    Alt.Latino's guide to Chicano soul Jul 24, 2024

    The genre commonly referred to as "Chicano soul" has that "you know it if you hear it" kind of sound.
    It's a bicultural interpretation of late 1950s and early '60s African American R&B ballads by Mexican American youth, influenced by the operatic style of Mexican rancheras. Broken hearts, unrequited love and loving the wrong person are often the main themes.
    Real talk: it's the smooth, bilingual vocals of Malo's 1972 hit "Suavecito" expressing the thrill of a new love that is still heard at lowrider car shows or the pleas of "You're Still A Young Man' by Tower of Power, to name a few examples.
    This week Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre unpack the genre and how the tradition is being reborn by a crew of young artists making it sparkle anew.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Malo, "Suavecito"
    •Joe Bataan, "I Wish You Love, P1. 1"
    •Tower of Power, "You're Still A Young Man"
    •Thee Sacred Souls, "Can I Call You Rose?"
    •The Altons, "Soon Enough"
    •Thee Sinceers feat. Joey Quinones, "Seems Like"
    •Mikey Jimenez, "Takin' All My Lovin'"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed, with editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 14: The songs we can't stop playing this week Jul 23, 2024

    We update our running tally of the year's best songs with a return from Moses Sumney, 2022 Tiny Desk Contest winner Alisa Amador, Orville Peck's collaboration with Beck and more.
    Featured songs and artists:
    1. Orville Peck and Beck: "Death Valley High," from Stampede
    2. Nilüfer Yanya: "Call It Love," from My Method Actor
    3. Alisa Amador: "Woke Up Today," from Multitudes
    4. Moses Sumney: "Gold Coast," from Sophcore
    5. Neil Young and Crazy Horse: "Helpless," from Early Daze
    6. Rema: "YAYO," from HEIS
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out July 19 Jul 19, 2024

    This week on New Music Friday from All Songs Considered, NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Stephen Thompson listen to a grab bag of new releases out on July 19, including what's being called the last Childish Gambino album ever, returns by public radio faves Los Campesinos and Dr. Dog and a vibe-heavy follow-up made by the creators of one of the longest-running Billboard singles of all time, just in time to greet the the heat waves of summer 2024 (sorry).
    Then, one of the week's biggest albums sends Daoud and Stephen down a rabbit hole in which they attempt to figure out what happened to the blockbuster soundtrack and why, in the aftermath of an exceptional example from 2023, there might be an opportunity to revive the form.
    Featured albums
    • Childish Gambino, 'Bando Stone & the New World'
    • Los Campesinos, 'All Hell'
    • Denzel Curry, 'King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2'
    • Glass Animals, 'I Love You So F****** Much'
    • Dr. Dog, 'Dr. Dog'
    • Jimin, 'Muse'
    • Various Artists, 'Twisters: The Album' OST
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    Breathe: Songs to calm your nerves Jul 16, 2024

    We pause to take a deep breath this week and chill out with a mix designed to slow the blood and calm the nerves, including the one song scientists say can reduce anxiety by up to 65%.
    Note: This episode originally ran on March 26, 2024.

    Featured songs and artists:
    • Marconi Union: "Weightless"
    • Mary Lattimore: "Wawa by the Ocean" from 'Collected Pieces'
    • Van-Anh Nguyen and Noshika Masuda: "Spiegel im Spiegel" by Arvo Pärt
    • Brian McBride: "Girl Nap" from 'The Effective Disconnect'
    • Laraaji: "Meditation No. 1" from 'Day of Radiance'
    • Arooj Aftab: "Saans Lo" from 'Vulture Prince'
    • Eluvium: "One" from 'Talk Amongst The Trees'
    • Enya: "Watermark" from 'Watermark'
    • Adele: "Somoene Like You" from '21'
    • Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, John Pritchard & London • Philharmonic Orchestra: "O Mio babbino caro" from 'Kiri Te Kanawa Sings Puccini and Verdi'
    • Yo La Tengo: "Our Way To Fall" from 'And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out'
    • Cassandra Jenkins: "Hard Drive" from 'An Overview of Phenomenal Nature'
    • Ruth Laredo: "Clair de Lune" from 'My First Recital'
    • Rachika Nayar: "Our Wretched Fantasy" from 'Heaven Come Crashing'
    • Radiohead: "Everything in its Right Place" from 'Kid A'
    • Clem Snide: "Nick Drake Tape" from 'A Beautiful EP'
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out July 12 Jul 12, 2024

    NPR Music's Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen present the noteworthy albums out July 12, including new releases by Nashville iconoclast Sturgill Simpson, poignant lyricist Cassandra Jenkins, pop rebel Remi Wolf and more.
    Visit npr.org for the long list of albums out July 12 and playlists of their top songs.
    Read Ann Powers' review of Zach Bryan's The Great American Bar Scene here.
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    Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Omar Apollo, Karol G and Papo Vazquez Jul 10, 2024

    Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre round up their favorite new tracks, including heartbroken music from Omar Apollo, a mix of jazz and Afro-Puerto Rican sounds from Papo Vazquez and a controversial new merengue electrónico track from Karol G.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Omar Apollo, "Empty"
    •Los Cenzontles, "Different Drum"
    •Mabe Fratti, "Oidos" and "Intento fallido"
    •Karol G, "Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido"
    •Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Hamilton de Holanda, "Mandalagh"
    •Papo Vazquez and Mighty Pirates Troubadours, "Plena Pa'Los Apache"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler, with editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 13: The songs we can't stop playing this week Jul 09, 2024

    The latest update to our running list of the year's best songs includes new ones from Wilco and Omar Apollo, an ode to friendship from Charli XCX and Lorde and more.
    Featured songs and artists:
    1. Wilco: "Hot Sun," from 'Hot Sun Cool Shroud'
    2. Charli XCX and Lorde: "The girl, so confusing version with lorde" (single)
    3. Sondre Lerche: "You Are Impossible," from 'Two Way Monologue (20th Anniversary Edition)'
    4. Omar Apollo: "Plane Trees" (feat. Mustafa), from 'God Said No'
    5. Remy Bond: "Summer Song" (feat. Air) (single)
    6. Cassandra Jenkins: "Petco," from 'My Light, My Destroyer'
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    'Born In The U.S.A.' at 40 Jul 02, 2024

    With the Fourth of July week here, we look at an album all about the messy, complicated and wonderful culture of America: Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A., which recently turned 40 years old.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out June 28 Jun 28, 2024

    NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and Anamaria Sayre give you the lowdown on Omar Apollo's new LP, Lil Yachty's collaboration with James Blake, and the fourth album by Hiatus Kaiyote.
    Featured albums:
    - Omar Apollo, 'God Said No'
    - Lil Yachty & James Blake, 'Bad Cameo'
    - Hiatus Kaiyote, 'Love Heart Cheat Code'
    Visit npr.org/music to see the entire list of albums out June 28 and stream our New Music Friday playlist.
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    In Conversation: Edgar Barrera Jun 26, 2024

    Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras visit the Miami studio of the Latin pop super-producer.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 12: The songs we can't stop playing this week Jun 25, 2024

    Our updated list of the year's best songs includes a sweet reflection from beabadoobee, Nathy Peluso's wildly infectious "Aprender A Amar," the mind-blowing virtuosity of pianist Yuja Wang and more.
    Featured songs and artists:
    1. Nathy Peluso: "APRENDER A AMAR," from 'GRASA'
    2. Jakob Lindberg: "Musette" and "Tombeau" from 'Robert de Visée: Theorbo Solos'
    3. Brijean: "Workin' On It," from 'Macro'
    4. Yuja Wang: "Danzón No. 2 (Marquez)," from 'The Vienna Recital'
    5. beabadoobee: "Coming Home," from 'This Is How Tomorrow Moves'
    6. Grupo Frontera & NICKI NICOLE: "DESQUITE," from JUGANDO A QUE NO PASA NADA'
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out June 21 Jun 21, 2024

    The first half of 2024 has been stuffed with blockbuster albums, and as we reach the midpoint of the year, we've got one more to add to the list. On this week's episode of New Music Friday from All Songs Considered, Hazel Cills and Anamaria Sayre discuss the new album from the breakout star of the Mexican Regional movement. Peso Pluma's new Éxodo sees the singer branching out with new sounds and new collaborators.
    Also out this week: the always captivating Kehlani gets adventurous on Crash and the Icelandic singer Emiliana Torrini fashions an album of songs out of letters written to a friend's mother.
    Featured Albums:
    • Peso Pluma, 'Éxodo'
    • Kehlani, 'Crash'
    • Emiliana Torrini, 'Miss Flower'
    Other notable albums out June 21:
    • Wild Up, 'Julius Eastman Vol. 4: The Holy Presence'
    • Gracie Abrams, 'The Secret of Us'
    • Lake Street Dive, 'Good Together'
    • Linda Thompson, 'Proxy Music'
    • Various Artists, 'Miles Away: One'
    • Been Stellar, 'Scream from New York, NY'
    • Daryl Hall, 'D'
    • Jim Lauderdale, 'My Favorite Place'
    • Kate Nash, '9 Sad Symphonies'
    • Sumac, 'The Healer'
    • Various Artists, 'Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty'
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    The best songs of 2024 (so far) Jun 18, 2024

    With the first half of the year almost behind us, we hit pause to reflect on some of the best tracks we've gotten so far, from Chappell Roan, Brittany Howard, Pedro The Lion and more.
    Featured songs:
    • Chappell Roan: "Good Luck, Babe!" (single)
    • Pedro the Lion: "Modesto," from 'Santa Cruz'
    • Tyla: "Safer," from 'TYLA'
    • Blondshell: "Docket (feat. Bully)" (single)
    • Helado Negro: "Colores Del Mar," from 'Phasor'
    • Jessica Pratt: "World on a String," from 'Here In The Pitch'
    • Mk.gee: "I Want," from 'Two Star & The Dream Police'
    • Madi Diaz: "God Person," from 'Weird Faith'
    • Brittany Howard: "Power to Undo," from 'What Now'
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out June 14 Jun 14, 2024

    This week, NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers steer the New Music Friday podcast straight into the oncoming Father's Day weekend, following the lead of country superstar Luke Combs, whose new album Fathers & Sons is a heartfelt meditation on what it means to fill both of those roles. It's Combs' first album since his cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" landed him on the pop charts last year.
    Also this week: Raveena, whose won over many fans at NPR Music with her 2022 album Asha's Awakening, excavates the sounds of millennial pop and R&B on Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain and a long-celebrated 1974 bootleg of Paul McCartney and Wings playing live in the studio gets an official release.
    Featured Albums:
    • Luke Combs, 'Fathers & Sons'
    • Raveena, 'Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain'
    • Paul McCartney & Wings, 'One Hand Clapping'
    Other notable albums out June 14:
    • The Decemberists, 'As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again'
    • Normani, 'Dopamine'
    • PJ Morton, 'Cape Town to Cairo'
    • This is Lorelei, 'Box for Buddy, Box for Star'
    • Jess Cornelius, 'Care/Taking'
    • Sadler Vaden, 'Dad Rock'
    • Don Tolliver, 'Hardstone Psycho'
    • Hermanos Gutiérrez, 'Sonido Cósmico'
    • Sam Morton, 'Daffodils & Dirt'
    • John Cale, 'POPtical Illusion'
    • Isobel Campbell, 'Bow to Love'
    • John Grant, 'The Art of the Lie'
    • Lalah Hathaway, 'VANTABLACK'
    • Moby, 'always centered at night'
    • Zsela, 'Big For You'
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    Alt.Latino's favorite music of 2024 (so far) Jun 12, 2024

    To mark the halfway point of 2024, Felix Contreras, Anamaria Sayre and NPR Culture Desk producer Isabella Gomez Sarmiento run down their favorite releases of the year so far, from a career-defining release from Nathy Peluso, a leveling up from Argentina rapper Trueno, introspective jazz from Melissa Aldana and so much more.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Trueno, "Tranky Funky"
    •Kali Uchis, "Dame Beso //Muévete"
    •Lau Noah ft. Gaby Moreno, "Aunque Suene Bonito"
    •Carlos Ares, "Amigo"
    •Angelica Garcia, "Gemini"
    •Melissa Aldana, "I Know You Know"
    •Nathy Peluso, "Legendario"
    •Reyna Tropical, "Cartagena"
    •Daymé Arocena (feat. Vicente García), "A Fuego Lento"
    •Akapellah (feat. Al2 El Aldeano, Faker), "Ni Con Money"
    •The Marias, "Run Your Mouth"
    •Grupo Frontera, "Me Hizo Un Favor"
    •Alvaro Diaz, Feid, "Gatitas Sandungueras Vol. 1"
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    The Contenders, Vol. 11: Jason Mantzoukas Jun 11, 2024

    Actor, comedian and music superfan Jason Mantzoukas joins us to update our running list of the year's best songs, with lots of crate-digging curiosities. With host Robin Hilton and NPR Music's Lars Gotrich.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Dancer: "Bluetooth Hell," from '10 Songs I Hate About You'
    2. The Superwomen: "Lowlands," from 'Someone Like Me'
    3. Oluko Imo: "Glory of Om," from 'Glory of Om'
    4. Mekit Dolan Muqam Group: "Jula Muqam" from 'Bayawan'
    5. The Short Dark Strangers & The Shady M************: "We're Not Animals," from The Short Dark Strangers & The Shady M************
    6. Morgul Blade: "Heavy Metal Wraiths," from 'Heavy Metal Wraiths'
    Also Noted:
    - Mary Lattimore * Walt McClements: "Nest of Earrings," from 'Rain on the Road'
    - Somesurprises: "Be Reasonable," from 'Perseids'
    - Mohammad Syfkhan: "Do You Have a Lover or Not?" from 'I Am Kurdish'
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out June 7 Jun 07, 2024

    NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Hazel Cills shepherd you through the many huge albums out today, including new records by Kaytranada, Charli XCX and so much more.
    Featured albums:
    - Kaytranada, 'Timeless'
    - Charli XCX, 'brat'
    - Pedro the Lion, 'Santa Cruz'
    Other notable albums:
    - Tems, Born in the Wild
    - Angelica Garcia, 'Gemelo'
    - Alisa Amador, 'Multitudes'
    - Peggy Gou, 'I Hear You'
    - Marina Allen, 'Eight Pointed Star'
    To see the entire list of June 7 releases and stream our New Music Friday playlists, visit nprmusic.org.
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    Advice for graduates: Listeners share songs, lessons from high school Jun 04, 2024

    Listeners share songs that take them back to the final days of high school, and the lessons they impart.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Baz Luhrmann: "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)"
    2. Feist: "I Feel It All," from 'The Reminder'
    3. Brad Paisley: "Letter to Me," from '5th Gear'
    4. Green Day: "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," from 'Nimrod'
    5. Wiz Khalifa: "See You Again (feat. Charlie Puth)," from 'Furious 7'
    6. Rickie Lee Jones: "We Belong Together," from 'Pirates'
    7. Cloud Cult: "You'll Be Bright (Invocation Part 1)," from 'Light Chasers'
    8. Ke$ha: "TiK ToK," from 'Animals'
    9. The Head and the Heart: "Rivers and Roads," from 'The Head and the Heart'
    10. Simple Minds: "Don't You (Forget About Me)," from 'The Breakfast Club'
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    Jack Antonoff on surviving grief, regret and working out life's uncertainties Jun 03, 2024

    The producer, singer and songwriter talks with Rachel Martin, host of NPR's new podcast Wild Card, about some of life's biggest questions.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out May 31 May 31, 2024

    NPR Music's Ann Powers and Lars Gotrich are your guides to this week's new releases.
    Featured albums:
    • Arooj Aftab, 'Night Reign'
    • Shaboozey, 'Where I've Been, isn't Where I'm Going'
    • Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Nathan Salsburg & Tyler Trotter, 'Hear the Children Sing The Evidence'
    Other notable albums out May 31:
    • Richard Thompson, 'Ship To Shore'
    • Dos Monos, 'Dos Atomos'
    • Anna Tivel, 'Living Thing'
    • Beak>, '>>>>'
    • Swamp Dogg, 'Blackgrass'
    • Thou, 'Umbilical'
    • Chris Housman, 'Blueneck'
    • Psychic Temple, 'Doggie Paddlin' Thru the Cosmic Consciousness'
    • John Muq, 'Flying Away'
    • Robin Holcomb, 'One Way or Another, Vol. 2'
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    The National Recording Registry's best Spanish language songs (and what it's missing) May 29, 2024

    The Library of Congress' National Recording Registry is more than just a collection of music and sound — it's a reflection of who we are as a country. In April, two new Spanish language songs were added to the registry: Juan Gabriel's "Amor Eterno" and Héctor Lavoe's "El Cantante."
    This week on Alt.Latino, Felix and Ana take the opportunity to dive into the Spanish language songs that have made it into the historic collection, as well as share their dream picks for what should be chosen next.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Héctor Lavoe, "El Cantante"
    •Juan Gabriel, "Amor Eterno (En Vivo [En el Palacio de Bellas Artes])"
    •Buena Vista Social Club, "Chan Chan"
    •Buena Vista Social Club, "Orgullecida"
    •Buena Vista Social Club, "El Carretero"
    •Santana, "Oye Como Va"
    •Lydia Mendoza, "Mal Hombre (Cold-Hearted Man)"
    •Dizzy Gillespie feat. Chano Pozo, "Manteca"
    •Ivy Queen, "Quiero Bailar"
    •Jose Feliciano, "El Reloj"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler, with editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 10: The songs we can't stop playing this week May 28, 2024

    Our biweekly update of the year's best tracks is a mix full of "the hurries and the worries" from Alkaline Trio, wistful reflections from Lake Street Dive, Cindy Lee's sprawling double album and more.
    Like the show? Tell your friends and leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.
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    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Alkaline Trio: "Teenage Heart," from 'Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs'
    2. Lake Street Dive: "Twenty-Five," from 'Good Together'
    3. Les Savy Fav: "Void Moon," from 'OUI, LSF'
    4. La Luz: "Poppies," from 'News of the Universe'
    5. Cindy Lee: "Wild Rose," from 'Diamond Jubilee'
    6. Four Tet: "Loved" from 'Three'
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out May 24 May 24, 2024

    On our survey of the week's most exciting new albums, WRTI's Nate Chinen and NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce get all wrapped up in the amniotic embrace of a new album by a guru of the L.A. ambient-jazz scene.
    The new album by Carlos Niño & Friendsis called Placenta. If you know anything about Niño, you'll probably be able to guess that the subject that title suggests — pregancy and childbirth — are taken very seriously. Those "Friends" are crucial too: Niño has become a central figure in a scene whose reverberations are starting to be felt well beyond the community itself, and are drawing more artists in. You can hear Niño on André 3000's flute album New Blue Sun, and André returns the favor here.
    Also this week: The fourth album by DIIV sees the indie rock group leaning into shoegaze-inspired sounds, and Andrew Bird creates an album in tribute to the "Golden Era" jazz tunes of the 1930s and '40s he heard on Sunday morning radio shows as a young adult in Chicago.
    Featured Albums:
    • Carlos Niño & Friends, Placenta
    • DIIV, Frog in Boiling Water
    • Andrew Bird Trio, Sunday Morning Put-On
    Other notable albums out May 24:
    • Tiny Habits, All For Something
    • Vince Staples, Dark Times
    • Alex Sipiagin, Horizons
    • Machinedrum, 3FOR82
    • Joshua Moshier, semipermanence
    • Nathy Peluso, Grasa
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    Songs that hit you hard (2023) May 21, 2024

    We asked listeners to tell us about a song they ugly cried to or just couldn't stop playing. On this episode, we share some of their picks and the stories behind them.
    Note: This episode originally ran on Dec. 26, 2023
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out May 17 May 17, 2024

    NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and Hazel Cills discuss new releases by Billie Eilish, Portishead's Beth Gibbons and Rapsody.
    Featured albums:
    - Billie Eilish, 'Hit Me Hard and Soft'
    - Rapsody, 'Please Don't Cry'
    - Beth Gibbons, 'Lives Outgrown'
    Other notable albums out May 17:
    - Shellac, 'To All Trains'
    - The Avett Brothers, 'The Avett Brothers'
    - V/A, 'Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense'
    - Mach-Hommy, '#RICHAXXHAITIAN'
    - Cage the Elephant, 'Neon Pill'
    - of Montreal, 'Lady on the Cusp'
    - Wu-Lu, 'Learning To Swim On Empty'
    - Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band, 'Loophole'
    - The Lovely Eggs, 'Eggistentialism'
    - Kaia Kater, 'Strange Medicine'
    - Álvaro Díaz, 'SAYONARA'
    - ZAYN, 'Room Under the Stairs'
    - One Step Closer, 'All You Embrace'
    - A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, 'Better Off Alone'
    - Crumb, 'AMAMA'
    - Lightheaded, 'Combustible Gems'
    - Pallbearer, 'Mind Burns Alive'
    - Joywave, 'Permanent Pleasure'
    - Blitzen Trapper, '100's of 1000's, Millions of Billions'
    - Payroll Giovanni, 'Have Money, Have Heart' EP
    - UFOmammut, 'Hidden'
    - SQÜRL, 'Music for Man Ray'
    - pub, 'process the wise'
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    Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Wyatt Flores, Danny Ocean and Grupo Frontera May 15, 2024

    Ana and Felix collect their favorite recent releases from the past few months, including new material from the breakout regional band Grupo Frontera, a country/Latin cross-over in the music of Wyatt Flores, a new song from groundbreaking rapper Mala Rodriguez and more.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, "Mas Que Nada"
    •Luis Muñoz, "Crescent Moon"
    •Mala Rodriguez, "Casi Nada [Explicit]"
    •Alih Jay, "Bang Bang (Mi Baby Me Mató)"
    •Cher, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
    •Grupo Frontera, "Me Hizo Un Favor"
    •Wyatt Flores, "Half Life"
    •Danny Ocean, "Cero Condiciones [Explicit]"
    •Fabiola Méndez, "Lamento en Celinés"
    •Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso, "EL ÚNICO"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler, with editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 9: The songs we can't stop playing this week May 14, 2024

    We update our running list of the year's best songs with new ones from Dominic Fike, WILLOW, Kamasi Washington, Illuminati Hotties and more.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. WILLOW: "run!" from 'empathogen'
    2. Dominic Fike: "hi grace" from '14 minutes'
    3. Kamasi Washington, George Clinton & D Smoke: "Get Lit," from 'Fearless Movement'
    4. Illuminati Hotties: "Can't Be Still" (single)
    5. Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion: "To Music," from 'Rectangles and Circumstance'
    6. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: "L'ouef" from 'Challengers' OST
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out May 10 May 10, 2024

    This week's episode of New Music Friday from All Songs Considered showcases artists stretching limits across a wide spectrum of genres. NPR Music editor Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Alt.Latino host Anamaria Sayre dig into the most exciting albums out May 10, 2024, from a juggernaut of the Mexican regional scene experimenting with song forms and sounds from across Latin America to an R&B singer getting loose after portraying a jazz icon to a blockbuster collection of contemporary indie artists pulled together for the soundtrack of a discombobulating movie rooted in the 1990s.
    Featured Albums:
    • Grupo Frontera, Jugando a Que No Pasa Nada
    • Andra Day, Cassandra (cherith)
    • Various Artists, I Saw the TV Glow Original Soundtrack
    Other notable albums out May 10:
    • Yaya Bey, Ten Fold
    • Les Savy Fav, OUI LSF
    • I. Jordan, I Am Jordan
    • Ryan Castro, El Cantante del Ghetto
    • Amen Dunes, Death Jokes
    • Arab Strap, I'm totally fine with it don't give a f*** anymore
    • Brad Mehldau, After Bach II
    • Brad Mehldau, Après Fauré
    • Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, Remembrance
    • Chief Keef, Almighty So 2
    • Conway the Machine, Slant Face Killah
    • Dehd, Poetry
    • Gunna, One of Wun
    • How To Dress Well, I Am Toward You
    • Jim White and Marisa Anderson, Swallowtail
    • Kelsey Waldon, There's Always a Song
    • Kings of Leon, Can We Please Have Fun
    • Mick Harvey, Five Ways to Say Goodbye
    • Morgan Guerin, Tales of the Facade
    • Myriam Gendron, Mayday
    • Orville Peck, Stampede, Vol. 1
    • Shannon & the Clams, The Moon Is In The Wrong Place
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    Mother's Day Special: Celebrating moms and the music they loved May 07, 2024

    Get your hanky out. With Mother's Day nearing, listeners share the songs that remind them of their moms and the deeply moving stories behind them.
    Featured songs and artists:
    1. Hoagy Carmichael: "Stardust"
    2. Christina Aguilera: "Beautiful"
    3. Jeannie C. Riley: "Harper Valley PTA"
    4. Stevie Wonder: "Isn't She Lovely"
    5. Kermit the Frog: "Rainbow Connection"
    6. Phyllis Hyman: "You Know How to Love Me"
    7. MILCK: "Oh, Mother"
    8. Christina Perri: "You Are My Sunshine"
    9. The Tokens: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
    10. Four Tops: "Reach Out I'll Be There"
    11. Sweet Honey in the Rock: "Wanting Memories"
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out May 3 May 03, 2024

    On the May 3 episode of New Music Friday, NPR Music's Hazel Cills and WRTI's Nate Chinen discuss the week's essential new albums, including Radical Optimism, from the dance-pop superstar Dua Lipa.
    The songs on Radical Optimism are mostly in the vein of Dua Lipa's earlier work, but that itself might be reason to keep a militantly sunny attitude: A parade of hits from her last album, Future Nostalgia, proved to have incredible staying power — "Levitating" hung around in the top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart for nearly a year — and she contributed to last year's cultural juggernaut Barbie with "Dance the Night." Still, Hazel and Nate say the new album offers hints of a few surprising artistic developments in her sound.
    Radical Optimism isn't the only album out this week that demands attention. New records by the inimitable folk songwriter Jessica Pratt and the always ambitious jazz maestro and saxophonist Kamasi Washington focus their own sounds in new and highly rewarding ways.
    Featured Albums:
    • Dua Lipa, 'Radical Optimism'
    • Jessica Pratt, 'Here in the Pitch'
    • Kamasi Washington, 'Fearless Movement'
    Other notable albums out May 3:
    • Willow, 'empathogen'
    • Mdou Moctar, 'Funeral for Justice'
    • Steph Richards, 'Power Vibe'
    • Charlotte Day Wilson, 'Cyan Blue'
    • Luke Stewart's Silt Trio, 'Unknown Rivers'
    • 4batz, 'u made me a st4r'
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    Alt.Latino's favorite Tiny Desk Contest entries May 01, 2024

    It's the 10th annual Tiny Desk contest and there's been a strong showing of Latin artists behind desks across the United States and Puerto Rico.
    Felix and Ana sifted through all the entries and pulled their favorites from artists with roots all across the Americas. And if one of them ends up winning, you can thank us for the introduction.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Cathia, "Taza de Café"
    •Manu Manzo, "Celos"
    •Mireya Ramos and the Poor Choices, "Quiero Volver"
    •Flaco el Jandro, "Lluvia Pesada"
    •Los Quinceañeros, "Guero"
    •La Doña, "Loser Girl"
    •Alejandro Aranda, "Pieces"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler, with editorial support from Hazel Cills. Our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 8: The songs we can't stop playing this week Apr 30, 2024

    Brittany Luse, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, joins All Songs Considered's Robin Hilton to update our running list of the year's best songs.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Ekko Astral: "Baethoven," from 'pink balloons'
    2. Nubiyan Twist: "Carry Me (feat. Seun Kuti)," from 'Find Your Flame'
    3. T-Bone Burnett: "He Came Down," from 'The Other Side'
    4. Bien et Toi: "So Long (feat. Paris Texas)," from 'London Safari II'
    5. Bnny: "Missing," from 'One Million Love Songs'
    6. Chanel Beads: "Unifying Thought," from 'Your Day Will Come'
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out April 26 Apr 26, 2024

    NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Sheldon Pearce discuss new albums from St. Vincent, Charley Crockett, Iron & Wine and more.
    Feature Albums:
    • St. Vincent, 'All Born Screaming'
    • Charley Crockett, '$10 Cowboy'
    • Iron & Wine, 'Light Verse'
    • Maria Chiara Argirò, 'Closer'
    Other notable albums out April 26:
    • Neil Young and Crazy Horse, 'FU##IN' UP'
    • PartyNextDoor, 'PartyNextDoor 4'
    • Justice, 'Hyperdrama'
    • Anitta, 'Funk Generation'
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    Cruel songs for the cruelest month Apr 23, 2024

    Is April, as T.S. Eliot put it, the cruelest month? We reflect on the question with a mix that's both cringe-inducing and hilarious, from the cruelest takedowns to the most insidious earworms.
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    New Music Friday: Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets' and the best albums out April 19 Apr 19, 2024

    NPR Music's Ann Powers and Hazel Cills dig into Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department,' which hit streaming services last night, and share a handful of other new albums out Friday, April 19.
    Featured Albums:
    • Taylor Swift, 'The Tortured Poets Department'
    • Bbymutha, 'Sleep Paralysis'
    • claire rousay, 'sentiment'
    • Pearl Jam, 'Dark Matter'
    Other notable albums out April 19:
    • Stephanie Lambring, 'Hypocrite'
    • Cadence Weapon, 'ROLLERCOASTER'
    • Tei Shi, 'Valerie'
    • Ekko Astral, 'pink balloons'
    • Bill Frisell, 'Orchestras'
    • BIG|BRAVE, 'A Chaos of Flowers'
    • Blue Lab Beats, 'Blue Eclipse'
    • Chanel Beads, 'Your Day Will Come'
    • Local Natives, 'But I'll Wait For You'
    • Gangrene (The Alchemist & Oh No), 'Heads I Win, Tails You Lose'
    • Brian Eno, 'Eno'
    • Cloud Nothings, 'Final Summer'
    • Melvins, 'Tarantula Heart'
    • Mozzy, 'CHILDREN OF THE SLUMS'
    • Lucy Rose, 'This Ain't The Way You Go Out'
    • Pillow Queens, 'Name Your Sorrow'
    • A Certain Ratio, 'It All Comes Down To This'
    • Cavalier, 'Different Type Time'
    • Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, 'That Delicious Vice'
    • T Bone Burnett, 'The Other Side'
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    Alt.Latino's New Music Roundup: Young Miko, The Mavericks and more Apr 17, 2024

    Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite new music, from Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko's boundary-pushing new music, to Alejandro Escovedo's genre-bending rock and Angelica Garcia's electro-cumbia.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    • Young Miko, "Tamagotchi"
    • The Mavericks, "Moon & Stars (with Sierra Ferrell)"
    • Angelica Garcia, "Juanita"
    • Alejandro Escovedo, "Castañuelas"
    • Nella, Yendry, "Veinte Años"
    • Sheila E., "Bemba Colorá (ft. Gloria Estefan and Mimy Succar)"
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    The Contenders, Vol. 7: The songs we can't stop playing this week Apr 16, 2024

    This week's update to our list of the year's best songs includes thunderous shoegaze from Wisp, a classic Cuban piano piece from Dánae Olano, a deeply moving story from Pedro The Lion and more.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Pedro The Lion: "Modesto," from 'Santa Cruz'
    2. Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly: "Destejer," from 'Mestizx'
    3. Sheila E.: "Bemba Colorá (feat. Gloria Estefan)," from 'Bailar'
    4. Lizzy McAlpine: "I Guess," from 'Older'
    5. Dánae Olano: "Danzón para la abuela" from 'Children's Corner'
    6. Wisp: "Pandora" from 'Pandora' EP
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out April 12 Apr 12, 2024

    NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce and WRTI's Nate Chinen take you through the biggest new releases of the week, including Maggie Rogers, Shabaka Hutchings and more.
    Featured albums:
    - Shabaka, 'Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace'
    - Maggie Rogers, 'Don't Forget Me'
    - Lizz Wright, 'Shadow'
    - Leyla McCalla, 'Sun Without the Heat'
    Other notable albums out April 5:
    - METZ, 'Up On Gravity Hill'
    - Caroline Davis & Wendy Eisenberg, 'Accept When'
    - girl in red, 'I'M DOING IT AGAIN BABY!'
    - Future & Metro Boomin, 'We Still Don't Trust You'
    - Nia Archives, 'Silence is Loud'
    - V/A, 'My Black Country - The Songs of Alice Randall'
    - Still House Plants, 'If I don​'​t make it, I love u'
    - Clarissa Connelly, 'World of Work'
    - Meshell Ndegeocello, 'Red Hot and Ra: The Magic City'
    - Bad Bad Hats, 'Bad Bad Hats'
    - Dave Douglas, 'GIFTS'
    - BODEGA, 'Our Brand Could Be Yr Life'
    - English Teacher, 'This Could Be Texas'
    - James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg, 'All Gist'
    - Mark Knopfler, 'One Deep River'
    - The Ophelias, 'Ribbon' EP
    - Tusks, 'Gold'
    - Raphael Schön, 'Heart Times'
    - Sunburned Hand of the Man, 'Nimbus'
    - Rejoicer, 'This Is Reasonable'
    - Aaron Lee Tasjan, 'Stellar Evolution'
    - Dolo Percussion, 'DOLO 6'
    - Baby Blue, 'Of My Window'
    - The Reds, Pinks & Purples, 'Unwishing Well'
    - Water Damage, 'In E'
    - Will Hoge, 'Tenderhearted Boys'
    - Jess Ribeiro, 'Summer of Love'
    - Sunbeam Sound Machine, 'Soft Signal' EP
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    Songs to make you laugh, with 'Weird Al' Yankovic Apr 09, 2024

    "Weird Al" Yankovic helps curate a mix of some of the funniest songs of all time, from classics like Tom Lehrer's "The Elements," to more fringe discoveries from The Hazzards, Tonio K. and more.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Tonio K: "H-A-T-R-E-D"
    2. Robbie Fulks: "Fountains of Wayne Hotline"
    3. Tenacious D: "Tribute"
    4. Spike Jones: "Der Fuehrer's Face"
    5. Bill Oddie: "BLIMPHT"
    6. The Hazzards: "Just A Temp"
    7. Garfunkel and Oates: "Google"
    8. Tom Lehrer: "The Elements"
    9. Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Erika Henningsen, Ashley Park & Busy Philipps: "Famous 5eva"
    10. Flight of the Conchords: "Hiphopopotamus Vs. Rhymenocerous (featuring Rhymenocerous And The Hiphopapoatumus)"
    11. Shel Silverstein: "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out"
    12. Weird Al: "One More Minute"
    13. Weird Al: "The Saga Continues"
    14. Bad Lip Reading: "Seagulls! (Stop It Now)"
    15. Fun With Animals: "Goin' To Pasadena"
    16. Spinal Tap: "Big Bottom"
    17. The Lonely Island: "Lazy Sunday"
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out April 5 Apr 05, 2024

    It's a big week for fans of early aughts rock bands, with new releases from The Black Keys and Vampire Weekend hitting streaming services. Kick back with NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and World Cafe host Raina Douris as they run through the new albums you need to know about.
    Featured albums:
    1. The Black Keys, 'Ohio Players'
    2. Vampire Weekend, 'Only God Was Above Us'
    3. Katie Pruitt, 'Mantras'
    4. Khruangbin, 'A La Sala'
    Other notable releases for April 5, 2024:
    • Phosphorescent, 'Revelator'
    • Grace Cummings, 'Ramona'
    • Young Miko, 'att.'
    • Adam Wiltzie, 'Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal'
    • Fabiana Palladino, s/t
    • Vegyn, 'The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions'
    • Benson Boone, 'Fireworks and Rollerblades'
    • Jane Weaver, 'Love in Constant Spectacle'
    • José James, '1978'
    • Lizzy McAlpine, 'Older'
    • Melissa Aldana, 'Echoes of the Inner Prophet'
    • Mount Kimbie, 'The Sunset Violent'
    • Pernice Brothers, 'Who Will You Believe'
    • Sheila E., 'Bailar'
    • Sinkane, 'We Belong'
    • TisaKorean, 'MUMU 8818'
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    Tracing the history of Latino artists making country music Apr 04, 2024

    The release of Beyoncés Cowboy Carter has sparked a national conversation about who gets to sing country music and the complex roots of the genre. Which got Alt.Latino thinking — what about the Latinos in country?
    This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras travel to Austin, Texas to speak with AmeriChicana musician Carrie Rodriguez about the difference between violin and fiddle, strings and "strangs," and who gets to play country music.
    Songs featured:
    •Carin Leon, Leon Bridges: "It Was Always You (Siempre Fuiste Tu)"
    •Cuco Sanchez: "La Cama de Piedra"
    •Merle Haggard: "Big City"
    •Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: "San Antonio Rose"
    •Robert Earl Keen: "Feelin' Good Again"
    •Chip Taylor, Carrie Rodriguez: "Dirty Little Texas Story"
    •Eva Garza: "Quiero Verte Una Vez Mas"
    •Rick Trevino: "Doctor Time"
    •Ruben Ramos: "Crying Time"
    •Sammy Arriaga: "Tennessee Whiskey - Spanglish"
    •The Mavericks: "There Goes My Heart"
    •Louie TheSinger: "Come and Take It"
    •Carrie Rodriguez: "I Dreamed I Was Lola Beltran"
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    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino, and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    Everything you need to know about Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' Apr 03, 2024

    Our friends at Pop Culture Happy Hour dig into the highly anticipated Cowboy Carter and consider whether Beyoncé is knocking down the doors of the country establishment, or looking for validation.
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    The Contenders Vol. 6: The songs we can't stop playing this week Apr 02, 2024

    We update our running list of the year's best songs with Charlotte Day Wilson's beguiling "Canopy," wry punk from Gustaf, a breathtaking new solo work from Adrianne Lenker and more.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Gustaf: "Starting and Staring," from 'Package, Pt. 2'
    2. Mustafa: "Imaan" (Single)
    3. Adrianne Lenker: "No Machine," from 'Bright Future'
    4. Charlotte Day Wilson: "Canopy," from 'Cyan Blue'
    5. Gary Clark Jr.: "Maktub," from 'JPEG RAW'
    6. Nourished by Time: "Hell of a Ride," from 'Catching Chickens'
    Questions, comments, suggestions, general feedback? Email us: allsongs@npr.org
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    What do we really want from Shakira? Mar 30, 2024

    Shakira just released her first album in seven years, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, and most listeners and critics have high praise. But this episode of Alt.Latino puts the record to the test.
    Felix Contreras, Anamaria Sayre and NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento talk about what makes a Shakira record a Shakira record, how pop artists reinvent themselves and loving your favorite artists even if you don't always love their music.
    Songs featured in this episode:
    •Shakira: "Puntería"
    •Shakira: "La Fuerte"
    •Shakira: "Obtener un Si"
    •Shakira: "El Jefe"
    •Paul Simon: "You Can Call me Al"
    •Shakira: "Cómo Dónde y Cuándo"
    •Santana: "Smooth"
    •Shakira: "Cohete"
    •Karol G, Shakira: "TQG"
    •Miles Davis: "Bitches Brew"
    •Shakira: "Monotonía"
    •Shakira: "Escondite Ingles"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino, and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out March 29 Mar 29, 2024

    Beyoncé's breathlessly-anticipated Act II: Cowboy Carter is finally here, and NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce shares his initial reactions after staying up late to listen to the album as soon as it hit streaming services.
    But Queen Bey isn't the only artist with a new album worthy of discovery and dissection this week, and Sheldon is joined by Ann Powers to talk about a handful of other albums that deserve celebration. Those include a pair of albums — by Reyna Tropical and Kelly Moran — shaped by tragedy and its aftermath.
    Featured albums:
    1. Beyoncé, Act II: Cowboy Carter
    2. Reyna Tropical: Malegría
    3. Kelly Moran: Moves in the Field
    4. Chastity Belt: Live, Laugh, Love
    Other notable releases for March 29, 2024:
    • Alejandro Escovedo, Echo Dancing
    • Chicano Batman, Notebook Fantasy
    • Dawn Landes, The Liberated Woman's Songbook
    • Jim White, All Hits: Memories
    • Kenny Chesney, BORN
    • Rico Nasty & Boys Noize, HVRDC0RE DR3MZ EP
    • Ride, Interplay
    • Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Revelations
    • Shabazz Palaces, Exotic Birds of Prey
    • Sheryl Crow, Evolution
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    Relax: Songs to calm the nerves Mar 26, 2024

    It's music to the rescue on this week's All Songs Considered, with a mix of songs to slow the blood, including the one track scientists believe can reduce anxiety by up to 65%.
    Featured songs and artists:
    • Marconi Union: "Weightless"
    • Mary Lattimore: "Wawa by the Ocean" from 'Collected Pieces'
    • Van-Anh Nguyen and Noshika Masuda: "Spiegel im Spiegel" by Arvo Pärt
    • Brian McBride: "Girl Nap" from 'The Effective Disconnect'
    • Laraaji: "Meditation No. 1" from 'Day of Radiance'
    • Arooj Aftab: "Saans Lo" from 'Vulture Prince'
    • Eluvium: "One" from 'Talk Amongst The Trees'
    • Enya: "Watermark" from 'Watermark'
    • Adele: "Somoene Like You" from '21'
    • Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, John Pritchard & London • Philharmonic Orchestra: "O Mio babbino caro" from 'Kiri Te Kanawa Sings Puccini and Verdi'
    • Yo La Tengo: "Our Way To Fall" from 'And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out'
    • Cassandra Jenkins: "Hard Drive" from 'An Overview of Phenomenal Nature'
    • Ruth Laredo: "Clair de Lune" from 'My First Recital'
    • Rachika Nayar: "Our Wretched Fantasy" from 'Heaven Come Crashing'
    • Radiohead: "Everything in its Right Place" from 'Kid A'
    • Clem Snide: "Nick Drake Tape" from 'A Beautiful EP'
    Visit our site to see the Top 10 songs scientists say are the most relaxing.
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    In conversation: Tierra Whack opens up Mar 23, 2024

    NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael interviews the rap visionary about her new album, faking it until you make it and why success can breed suicidal thoughts.
    If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 9-8-8, or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out March 22 Mar 22, 2024

    Though it isn't quite as packed with huge names as last week, we're digging through another robust assortment of terrific albums. Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Stephen Thompson open by hailing Tigers Blood, the latest album from a singer-songwriter — Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee — who sounds more assured and potent than ever.
    Plus: inescapably catchy global pop from South African singer Tyla, genre-straddling roots music from Sierra Ferrell, indescribable electronic compositions from Jlin and more.
    Featured albums:
    1. Waxahatchee, Tigers Blood
    2. Tyla, Tyla
    3. Sierra Ferrell, Trail of Flowers
    4. Jlin, Akoma
    Other notable releases for March 22:
    • Rosie Tucker, 'Utopia Now!'
    • Empress Of, 'For Your Consideration'
    • Adrianne Lenker, 'Bright Future'
    • The Jesus and Mary Chain, 'Glasgow Eyes'
    • Future & Metro Boomin, 'We Don't Trust You'
    • SiR, 'HEAVY'
    • Good Morning, 'Seven'
    • Tatyana, 'It's Over'
    • Aoife O'Donovan, 'All My Friends'
    • Brothers Osborne, 'Break Mine'
    • Cakes da Killa, 'Black Sheep'
    • Matt Champion (of Brockhampton), 'Mika's Laundry'
    • Gary Clark Jr., 'JPEG RAW'
    • Glass Beams, 'Mahal'
    • Gossip, 'Real Power'
    • Julia Holter, 'Something in the Room She Moves'
    • Nourished by Time, 'Catching Chickens' EP
    • Rosali, 'Bite Down'
    • Shakira, 'Las Mujeres La No Lloran'
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    Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Elsa y Elmar, Julieta Eugenio, Esteman and more Mar 21, 2024

    The weather's heating up and so are the music releases. The hosts of Alt.Latino share their most quintessentially them picks, with Latin jazz across the board from Felix and indie pop-rock bops from Ana.
    The two sit down to ping-pong favorite picks back and forth from different parts of the country — plus, Felix puts Ana's picks to an impromptu test.
    Featured tracks:
    Lara Project, "Extraños"
    Julieta Eugenio, "Breath I"
    Esteman, Villano Antillano, "Noches de Verano"
    Rodrigo Recabarren, Pablo Menares, Yago Vazquez, "Santiago"
    Elsa y Elmar, "Entre Las Piernas"
    Hurray For The Riff Raff, "Hawkmoon"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 5: Our running list of the year's best songs Mar 19, 2024

    We update our tally of the year's best contenders with the effervescent Bombay Bicycle Club, Residente's epic and profound "313," cellist Maya Beiser's take on Terry Riley's In C and more.
    Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and NPR Music's Tom Huizenga join host Robin Hilton
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Bombay Bicycle Club: "Willow (feat. Lucy Rose)," from 'Fantasies'
    2. Ela Taubert: "Como Paso" (single)
    3. Jlin: "Sodalite (feat. Kronos Quartet)," from 'Akoma'
    4. Maya Hawke: "Missing Out," from 'Chaos Angel'
    5. Residente: "313" from 'LAS LETRAS YA NO IMPORTAN'
    6. Maya Beiser: "In C," from 'Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C'
    Questions, comments, feedback? Email us: allsongs@npr.org
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out March 15 Mar 15, 2024

    It feels like the first major springtime release week of 2024. Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen discuss the hotly awaited album by Kacey Musgraves and the full-length debut by Tierra Whack, plus more.
    Featured albums:
    1. Kacey Musgraves, Deeper Well
    2. Tierra Whack, World Wide Whack
    3. Justin Timberlake, Everything I Thought It Was
    4. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
    Other notable releases for March 15
    • Four Tet, Three
    • The Black Crowes, Happiness Bastards
    • Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
    • The Dandy Warhols, Rockmaker
    • Holly Humberstone, work in progress EP
    • Flo Milli, Fine Ho, Stay
    • Elcamino, The Game Is The Game
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    Spring preview 2024 Mar 12, 2024
    World Cafe's Raina Douris joins NPR's Sheldon Pearce and host Robin Hilton to talk about the most anticipated albums out this spring, including new ones from Vampire Weekend, Waxahatchee, Portishead's Beth Gibbons and more.
    Featured artists, albums and songs:
    Reyna Tropical: "Conexión Ancestral" from 'Malegría,' out March 29
    Yaya Bey: "Chasing the Bus" from 'Ten Fold,' out May 10
    METZ: "Entwined (Street Light Buzz)" from 'Up On Gravity Hill,' out April 12
    Vampire Weekend: "Gen X Cops" from 'Only God Was Above Us,' out April 5
    Shabaka: "End of Innocence" from 'Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace,' out April 12
    Beth Gibbons: "Floating on a Moment" from 'Lives Outgrown,' out May 17
    Waxahatchee: "365" from 'Tigers Blood,' out March 22
    Amen Dunes: "Boys" from 'Death Jokes,' out May 10
    girl in red: "Doing It Again" from 'I'm Doing It Again Baby!' out April 12
    See a list of more of NPR Music's most anticipated albums for spring 2024.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out March 8 Mar 08, 2024

    A wave of springtime releases might be just around the corner, but the biggest albums out this week are keeping things cool in an enticing variety of ways. Ann Powers and Hazel Cills discuss what Jack Antonoff, Norah Jones, Moor Mother's Camae Ayewa and Kim Gordon have in common, besides a common release date.
    Featured albums:
    1. Kim Gordon, The Collective
    2. Bleachers, Bleachers
    3. Norah Jones, Visions
    4. Moor Mother, The Great Bailout
    Other notable releases for March 8:
    • Ariana Grande, Eternal Sunshine
    • Bolis Pupul, Letter to Yu
    • Judas Priest, Invincible Shield
    • YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Compliments of Gravedigger Mountain
    • Oisin Leech, Cold Sea
    • Cyrille Aimée, à Fleur de Peau
    • Dion, Girl Friends
    • Chris Potter, Eagle's Point
    • Torrey, Torrey
    • Daniel Carter and Stefan Christoff, In the wind now
    • homeshake, CD Wallet
    • Pixies, At the BBC
    • Meatbodies, Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom
    • Ronnie Lion, Spanish Town
    • Vanessa Bedoret, Eyes
    • Charles Moothart, Black Holes Don't Choke
    • Anja Huwe, Codes
    • Erika Angell, The Obsession With Her Voice
    • The Rhythm Method, Peachy
    • The Hanging Stars, On A Golden Shore
    • astrel k, The Foreign Department
    • Observers, The Age of the Machine Entities
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    Sounds from Havana: A brief history of Cuban music Mar 06, 2024

    Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras visited Cuba and give us an audio-rich tour of Havana.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 4: Our running list of the year's best songs Mar 05, 2024

    Brittany Luse, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, joins NPR's Stephen Thompson and host Robin Hilton to update our running tally of songs that could end up on NPR Music's best-of-the-year lists.
    Featured Tracks:
    1. Empress Of: "Feminine," from For Your Consideration
    2. Rosie Tucker: "All My Exes Live In Vortexes," from UTOPIA NOW!
    3. Patrick Watson: "Perfect Day" (Single)
    4. Summer Banton: "Boyfriend" (Single)
    5. Madi Diaz: "God Person," from Weird Faith
    6. Friko: "Get Numb To It," from Where we've been, Where we go from here
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out March 1 Mar 01, 2024

    Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce discuss Faye Webster's Underdressed at the Symphony and a handful of the week's other brand new albums on which a musician's personality seems to be embodied by their voice — even when the music is completely instrumental.
    Featured albums:
    1. Faye Webster, Underdressed at the Symphony
    2. ScHoolboy Q, Blue Lips
    3. Julian Lage, Speak To Me
    4. Sheer Mag, Playing Favorites
    Other notable releases for March 1:
    Paula Cole, Lo
    Jacob Collier, Djesse Vol. 4
    Everything Everything, Mountainhead
    Nils Frahm, Day
    Hannah Frances, Keeper of the Shepherd
    Ben Frost, Scope Neglect
    Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Liam Gallagher & John Squire
    Albert Hammond, Body of Work
    Jahari Massamba Unit, Karriem Riggins & Madlib, YHWH is LOVE
    Kaiser Chiefs, Kaiser Chiefs' Easy Eighth Album
    Lang Lang, Saint-Saëns
    Mannequin Pussy, I Got Heaven
    Ministry, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
    Pissed Jeans, Half Divorced
    That Mexican OT, Texas Technician
    Uranium Club, Infants Under the Bulb
    Yard Act, Where's My Utopia?
    De La Soul, 3 Feet High and Rising (35th Anniversary Edition)
    Linda Smith, Nothing Else Matters and So I Liked Spring (reissues)
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    Beck's 'Loser' at 30 and the golden age of slacker rock Feb 27, 2024

    Nothing on mainstream radio sounded like Beck's "Loser" when it dropped in 1994. Thirty years later, we explain why, look at its impact on the rise of slacker rock and how we still hear it today.
    With KEXP's Cheryl Waters, NPR's Stephen Thompson and host Robin Hilton.
    Beck tracks featured in this episode:
    From 'Mellow Gold':
    "Loser"
    "Truck Driving Neighbor Downstairs (Yellow Sweat)"
    "Beercan"
    "Black Hole"
    From 'Stereopathetic Soulmanure':
    "Satan Gave Me A Taco"
    "Rowboat"
    From 'One Foot in the Grave':
    "One Foot in the Grave"
    Also featured:
    Basehead: "Brand New Day" from 'Play with Toys'
    Ween: "Push Th' Little Daisies" from 'Pure Guava'
    King Missile: "Detachable Penis" from 'Happy Hour'
    Pussy Galore: "Brick" from 'Sugars*** Sharp'
    The Lemonheads: "Half The Time" from 'Lovey'
    Guided By Voices: "#2 in the Model Home Series" from 'Vampire on Titus'
    Sebadoh: "Soul and Fire" from 'Bubble & Scrape'
    Pavement: "Cut Your Hair" from 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain'
    Alex G: "Runner" from 'God Save the Animals'
    Courtney Barnett: "History Eraser" from 'The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas'
    Frankie Cosmos: "Apathy" from 'Vessel'
    Beck: "F**** With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)" from 'Mellow Gold'
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Feb. 23 Feb 23, 2024

    Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen discuss Hurray for the Riff Raff's career-defining new album The Past Is Still Alive, along with a trio of other thrilling new releases that reveal the distinct strengths of the musicians behind them.
    Featured albums:
    1. Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Past Is Still Alive
    2. Erika de Casier, Still (released Wednesday, Feb. 21)
    3. Real Estate, Daniel
    4. Mary Timony, Untame The Tiger
    Other notable releases out Feb. 23:
    • Daymé Arocena, Alkemi
    • glaive, a bit of a mad one
    • Glitterer, Rationale
    • Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Souvenirs
    • Corb Lund, El Viejo
    • Mama Zu, Quilt Floor
    • MGMT, Loss of Life
    • Laetitia Sadier, Rooting for Love
    • Nadine Shah, Filthy Underneath
    • Rafael Toral, Spectral Evolution
    • TWICE, With YOU-th
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    Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Residente, La Yegros and El Cuarteto de Nos Feb 21, 2024

    Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre round up their favorite new music, including Southern Cone rock and cumbia, atmospheric vocals from the U.S. and even some delicate yet emotionally powerful music from the Catalan region of Spain.
    Featured songs:
    El Cuarteto de Nos: "Chivo Expiatorio (En Vivo)"
    Helado Negro: "Best For You and Me"
    La Yegros: "Bodas de Plumas"
    Lau Noah: "If a tree falls in love with a river"
    Daymé Arocena: "A Fuego Lento" (feat. Vicente García)
    Residente: "Ron En El Piso"
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 3: Our running list of the year's best songs Feb 20, 2024

    Host Robin Hilton hangs with composer and artist Julia Holter and NPR's Lars Gotrich to gab about their favorite new music, including the calming sounds of Helado Negro, Daisy Rickman and more.
    Featured artists and songs:
    1. Jessica Pratt: "Life Is" from 'Here In The Pitch'
    2. Deerlady: "Masterpieces" from 'Greatest Hits'
    3. Helado Negro: "Colores Del Mar" from 'Phasor'
    4. Julia Holter: "Spinning" from 'Something in the Room She Moves'
    5. Daisy Rickman: "Signpost to the Stars" from 'Howl'
    6. Frances Chang: "Spiral in Houston" from 'Psychedelic Anxiety'
    7. Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang: "Ocean" from 'Azure'
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    New Music Friday: 5 albums out Feb. 16, plus 'Rhapsody in Blue' still thrills at 100 Feb 16, 2024

    NPR Music's Felix Contreras and WRTI's Nate Chinen run down new albums by Gaby Mareno, Les Amazones d'Afrique and more. Then, Nate Chinen is joined by NPR Music's Tom Huizenga to discuss the legacy and controversy around George Gershwin's masterpiece, "Rhapsody in Blue," which celebrated its centennial this week.
    Featured albums out Feb. 16:
    • Gaby Moreno, 'Dusk'
    • Mike McGinnis +9, 'Outing: Road Trip II'
    • Mike LeDonne and the Groover Quartet, 'Wonderful!'
    • Nathalie Joachim, 'Ki moun ou ye'
    • Les Amazones d'Afrique, 'Musow Danse'
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    Mix messages: Listeners share the songs that say 'I've got a crush on you' Feb 13, 2024

    We asked listeners to tell us about a time they put a song on a mixtape or playlist to woo a crush. On this week's show, we share some of those songs ... and find out if they worked.
    Featured Songs:
    1. Peter Gabriel: "In Your Eyes"
    2. Depeche Mode: "Somebody"
    3. Erykah Badu: "Kiss Me On My Neck"
    4. Madness: "It Must Be Love"
    5. Mirah: "Dreamboat"
    6. Q-Tip: "Vivrant Thing"
    7. The Kinks: "Tired of Waiting for You"
    8. The Magnetic Fields: "I Don't Want To Get Over You"
    9. The Modern Lovers: "I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms"
    10. Mazzy Star: "Fade Into You"
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    New Music Friday: Brittany Howard and a new era of musical masters Feb 09, 2024

    Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce listen to the new albums out on Feb. 9 — including Brittany Howard's What Now — and find themselves wondering about the cultural value of virtuosity in 2024.
    Featured albums:
    1. Brittany Howard, What Now
    2. Joel Ross, nublues
    3. Boldy James & Nicholas Craven, Penalty of Leadership (released Jan. 12)
    4. Kali Malone, All Life Long
    5. Sonic Youth, Walls Have Ears
    6. Usher, Coming Home
    Other notable albums out Feb. 9:
    • Helado Negro, PHASOR
    • Chelsea Wolfe, She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
    • Madi Diaz, Weird Faith
    • Declan McKenna, What Happened To The Beach?
    • Little Simz, Drop 7 EP
    • Shygirl, Club Shy EP
    • Kelela, RAVE:N, The Remixes
    • Mk.gee, Two Star & The Dream Police
    • Ducks Ltd., Harm's Way
    • David Nance & Mowed Sound, David Nance & Mowed Sound
    • Split System, Vol. 2
    • The Telescopes, Growing Eyes Become String
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    The greatest Boleros of all-time Feb 08, 2024

    Nothing captures the agony of love, loss, hope and redemption like the song form known across all of Latin America: the bolero.
    Last December, UNESCO declared the bolero "an intangible cultural heritage of humanity" and "an indispensable part of the Latin American sentimental song." And given that Valentine's Day is coming up, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre did something special this week, in honor of this news: they asked some of their favorite artists and show listeners to share their most-loved boleros, and break down exactly what makes them so special. Join Felix and Ana as they laugh, cry and sing a little to the love songs of the ages.
    And be sure to check out the playlists we made for this episode, feature Ana and Felix's picks, as well as the selections from featured artists and listeners, on Spotify and Apple Music.
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The Contenders, Vol. 2: Our running list of the year's best songs Feb 06, 2024

    Host Robin Hilton hangs with NPR's Hazel Cills and Sheldon Pearce to geek out about the new Billy Joel, Kim Gordon, Shygirl, Nia Archives and more.
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    A recap of the 2024 Grammys Feb 05, 2024

    Our friends at NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour break down the major winners and highlights from the 2024 Grammy Awards.
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    New Music Friday: What Were The Grammys Made For? Feb 02, 2024

    Ann Powers, Sidney Madden and Stephen Thompson make predictions ahead of Sunday night's 66th annual Grammy Awards.
    Notable albums out Feb. 2:
    • The Last Dinner Party, Prelude to Ecstasy
    •     J Mascis, What Do We Do Now
    • Kirin J Callinan, If I Could Sing
    • Lee Scratch Perry, King Perry
    • Paul McCartney & Wings, Band on the Run (Underdubbed Mixes)
    • The Paranoid Style, The Interrogator
    • Liquid Mike, Paul Bunyan's Slingshot
    • Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey, Compassion
    • Jenny Sturgeon & Boo Hewerdine, Outliers

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    Why we still love Green Day Jan 30, 2024

    With Green Day's stellar new album, Saviors, the 20th anniversary of American Idiot and 30th anniversary of Dookie, NPR's Daoud Tyler-Ameen, Stephen Thompson and Robin Hilton look at the band's legacy.
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    New Music Friday: The best albums out Jan. 26 (and why they deserve reviews) Jan 26, 2024

    There's plenty about Wall of Eyes, the new album by the British rock trio The Smile, to remind you of Radiohead, the band with which The Smile shares Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. But there's something about The Smile that resists feeling like Radiohead redux, and on this week's episode Ann Powers, Tom Huizenga and Sheldon Pearce get to the bottom of what makes Wall of Eyes so satisfying on its own terms.
    Plus: Discussion of a week's worth of great albums leads to a conversation about the state of music criticism, which took a blow last week when the long-standing, much-beloved, occasionally-hated website Pitchfork was folded into the men's magazine GQ and much of its staff laid off.
    Featured Albums for January 26, 2024:
    1. Patricia Kopatchinksaja, Reto Bieri, Polina Leschenko — Take 3
    2. Benny the Butcher — Everybody Can't Go
    3. Katy Kirby — Blue Raspberry
    4. The Smile — Wall of Eyes
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    In Conversation: Ana Tijoux returns after a 10-year break Jan 24, 2024

    In this week's Alt.Latino episode, Chilean rapper and singer Ana Tijoux talks to hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre about her new album, Vida, and why it took so long to return to the studio.
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    Why the Oscar-winning score for 'All Quiet On The Western Front' still gives chills Jan 23, 2024

    With the announcement of the 96th annual Oscar nominees, we're revisiting our conversation with Volker Bertelmann, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score last year for All Quiet On The Western Front.
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    New Music Friday: 21 Savage's 'American Dream' Jan 19, 2024

    NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce, Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden dig into hip-hop superstar 21 Savage's new album, his notorious ICE arrest and what it means to capture the American dream.
    Noteworthy albums out January 19:
    - Sleater-Kinney, Little Rope
    - Green Day, Saviors
    - Eladio Carrión, Sol María
    - Ana Tijoux, Vida
    - Brittney Spencer, My Stupid Life
    - Mary Halvorson, Cloudward
    - Ethan Iverson, Technically Acceptable
    - glass beach, plastic death
    - ericdoa, DOA
    - Neck Deep, Neck Deep
    - Fredo Bang, Yes, I'm Sad
    - Keyon Harrold, Foreverland
    - Jozef Van Wissem, The Night Dwells In The Day
    -     Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino, With pats on the head, just one too few evil one too many is good that's all it is
    -     Mali Obomsawin and Magdalena Abrego, Greatest Hits
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    The Contenders, Vol. 1: Our running list of the year's best songs Jan 16, 2024

    Host Robin Hilton hangs with NPR Music's Anamaria Sayre and Tom Huizenga to share their current musical obsessions, from the solo piano of Philip Glass to the garage punk of Sprints, Spain's super chill Club del Rio and more.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Lavinia Meijer: "The Departure" from Winter
    2. Xavi: "La Diabla (Single)
    3. Faye Webster and Lil Yachty: "Lego Ring" from Underdressed at the Symphony
    4. Philip Glass: "Opening," from Philip Glass Solo
    5. Club del Rio: "Una Vida" (Single)
    6. Sprints: "Literary Mind" from Letter to Self
    Enjoying the show? Tell your friends and leave a review for us wherever you listen to podcasts. Feedback welcome at allsongs@npr.org
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    Setting our sights on the biggest music stories of the 2024 Jan 12, 2024

    To ring in the new year, NPR Music's critics take over the latest episode of New Music Friday to offer predictions about the artists, genres and stories that might dominate conversations about music in 2024.
    Ann Powers, Rodney Carmichael and Nate Chinen join editor Jacob Ganz to discuss whether Usher's Super Bowl performance or Dua Lipa's new sound could launch these hardworking artists to new levels of ubiquity. Is it possible for either to one steal some of the spotlight that Beyoncé and Taylor Swift dominated last year?
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    New Music From Alt.Latino Jan 10, 2024

    Hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre share the latest new songs that live rent-free in their heads.
    Featured songs:
    Candeleros, "Le Quedan Dos"
    Cuco, "When The Day Comes To An End (DJ Sliink Remix)"
    Gaby Moreno, "Dance the Night Away"
    Ed Maverick, "Lagunas"
    Helado Negro, "I Just Want To Wake Up With You"
    Ana Tijoux, "Tania"
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    2024 Preview: The year's most anticipated albums Jan 09, 2024

    We take a spin through the albums we're most excited about for this year, including Sleater-Kinney, Brittany Howard, Hurray for the Riff Raff and more, plus a few rumored releases.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Sleater-Kinney — Little Rope
    2. The Smile — Wall of Eyes
    3. Brittany Howard — What Now
    4. Mary Timony — Untame the Tiger
    5. Lee Scratch Perry — King Perry
    6. Grandaddy — Blu Wav
    7. Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Past Is Still Alive
    8. serpentwithfeet — GRIP
    9. Chelsea Wolfe — She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
    10. Erika de Casier — Still
    Other notable releases for 2024:
    Jan. 12: Kid Cudi — Insano
    Jan. 12: Kali Uchis — Orquideas
    Jan. 19: Green Day — Saviors
    Jan. 26: Future Islands — People Who Aren't There Anymore
    Jan. 26: Torres — What an enormous room
    Jan. 26: Ty Segall — Three Bells
    Feb. 9: Helado Negro — PHASOR
    Feb. 16: Laura Jane Grace — Hole In My Head
    Feb. 16: IDLES — TANGK
    Feb. 29: Jacob Collier — Djesse Vol. 4
    March 1: Sheer Mag — Playing Favorites
    March 8: Bleachers — Bleachers
    March 29: Chastity Belt — Live Love Laugh
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    Viking's Choice goes back to the future Jan 02, 2024

    Our resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, connects epic Japanese storytelling, soul-sampling powerviolence, ambient rap and beautiful noise through thematic webs of history and memory.
    Featured Artists and Albums:
    • Matmos: "Music or Noise?" from Return to Archive
    • PoiL Ueda: "Kokô part 2" from Yoshitsune
    • Mayssa Jallad: "Baynana" from Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels
    • Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood: "For Ruth" from T​ê​te​-​à​-​t​ê​te
    • Zulu: "Lyfe Az a Shorty Shun B So Ruff" from A New Tomorrow
    • Yungwebster: "Stay FOCUSSSS [fast+reg]" from Yungwebster
    • Liis Ring: "after-image I: nothing stands still" from Homing
    • Chuquimamani-Condori: "Breathing" from DJ E
    • Sunwatchers: "World People" from Music Is Victory over Time
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    Listeners share the songs that moved them the most in 2023 Dec 26, 2023

    We asked listeners to tell us about a song they ugly cried to or just couldn't stop playing in 2023. On this episode, we share some of their picks and the stories behind them.
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    Alt.Latino's favorite music of 2023 Dec 20, 2023

    While 2022 may have been a year completely dominated by a certain sad summer reggaeton album, 2023 drew its power from a set of familiar sounds that took on new prominence: tubas, accordions and a whole lot of lively, sneakily danceable beats.
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    The 2023 'All Songs Considered' holiday extravaganza Dec 19, 2023

    Our annual celebration of the season returns with a trip back to the snowy cabin in the woods where it all began, as we attempt once again to throw a holiday party for the ages.
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    Regional Goes Global, Part 3: How a magical Mexican town keeps banda tradition alive Dec 15, 2023

    You know all those tubas and brass instruments you hear behind your favorite regional Mexican hits? That's banda sinaloense and this week Alt.Latino wraps up the Regional Goes Global series with a visit to Sinaloa, Mexico, the birthplace of the genre.
    Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras visit the picturesque town Mocorito, a pueblo magico where tradition and pride in the musical heritage runs deep. That's the case even among members of the drug cartels, which are responsible for some of the country's societal ills. It's a complex story as passionate and heartfelt as the music that stretches from the hills of Sinaloa to this side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler, with production support from Lilly Quiroz, Suraya Mohamed, Josephine Nyounai and Natalia Fidelholtz. The editor for this episode is Jacob Ganz, and our project manager is Grace Chung. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    The best songs of 2023 Dec 12, 2023

    NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Sheldon Pearce join Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and host Robin Hilton to spin and discuss the best songs of the year, from Olivia Rodrigo, 100 gecs, Noname, J Noa and more.
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    Talking about the best albums of 2023 Dec 05, 2023

    It's that time of year again. Over the next few weeks at NPR.org and here on the All Songs Considered podcast, we'll be sharing lists of and conversations about the best music of 2023.
    We're kicking things off with the standout albums of the year. Gathered on the show are NPR Music's three main critics: Rodney Carmichael, who writes about hip-hop and R&B; Nate Chinen of WRTI, who covers jazz and classical and Ann Powers, maven of pop, rock, folk, country and a little of everything else. Speaking with editor Daoud Tyler-Ameen, the trio dives into a heavy and heady year to discuss the releases that inspired the most vivid feelings, and together make a case — in an era when singles and playlists drive the industry numbers — for the album as a still-indispensable art form.
    The fun won't stop there. Stay tuned for more conversations about the songs that made us drop everything and the tours that turned into vessels for community. There will be lists of our favorite releases on NPR.org and conversations about the sounds and stars that defined the year, enough to keep you listening well into 2024.
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    Regional Goes Global, Part 2: A band finds its voice amid a storm of controversy Nov 29, 2023

    For the second episode of Alt.Latino's regional Mexican music series, hosts Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras interview the rising family band Yahritza y Su Esencia in its hometown of Yakima, Washington. The two discover that the U.S.-Mexico border looms large in this regional Mexican moment, especially for Yahritza y Su Esencia — not strictly because of the music's obvious Mexican roots, but also the ways in which the border can create an "us" and "them" dynamic. The band's struggles with musical and personal identity also reflect the real struggles that millions of US-born folks with Mexican heritage face. And what started as a musical journey for Ana and Felix, has now become a personal journey.
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler, with production support from Janice Llamoca, Shelby Hawkins, Suraya Mohamed and Natalia Fidelholtz. The editor for this episode is Jacob Ganz and our project manager is Grace Chung. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    Guest DJ: Peter Gabriel Nov 28, 2023

    Peter Gabriel is back with I/O, his first studio album of all-new songs in more than 20 years. To mark the occasion, we're revisiting a conversation and guest DJ session we with did with the singer when he was touring for the 25th anniversary of his album So.
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    Thanksgiving edition: Songs about your family Nov 21, 2023

    Sure, there are lots of songs for Christmas and other holidays, but what about Thanksgiving? On this episode we share stories and songs that remind our listeners of time spent with families.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 17 Nov 17, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the pairing of 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne, drumless Daft Punk and more.
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    Regional Goes Global, Part 1: Finding Peso Pluma's music revolution in Nashville Nov 15, 2023

    Earlier this year, Peso Pluma — a 24-year-old who grew up in between Guadalajara, Jalisco and San Antonio — became the first regional Mexican artist to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart. Something in the music industry was changing. Streaming numbers for regional Mexican shot up astronomically, as the musical stylings of banda and norteño made their way onto the Coachella main stage and burgeoning stars like Peso Pluma began to book their first U.S. tours in major markets. But what accounted for regional Mexican's rise? And what does the genre's continued popularity say about not just changing trends in the Latin music industry, but the changing shape of America?
    For the next three episodes of Alt.Latino, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras dive into the regional Mexican explosion, revealing the complex relationships both Mexicans and Mexican Americans have with identity from either side of the border. In this first episode, Felix and Anamaria travel to Nashville, Tenn. to witness Peso Pluma's performance and to try to understand the root of the phenomenon, through their own personal experiences and the people they meet along the way.
    Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Janice Llamoca and Joaquin Cotler, with production support from Shelby Hawkins, Suraya Mohamed, Natalia Fidelholtz and Lauren Migaki. The editor for this episode is Jacob Ganz and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    Exclusive: André 3000 reveals why his new solo album has no bars — and no boundaries Nov 14, 2023

    For the first time in nearly two decades, André 3000 is releasing an album of new music. New Blue Sun, set to be released this Friday, Nov. 17, is a stunning 87-minute mind-bender, minimalist and experimental, tribal and transcendent.
    One thing it is not, however, is a rap record. In a conversation with NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael, the legendary musician talks about creativity, grief and inspiration, about finding his voice in a new instrument, and explains why he took his music in a wildly unexpected direction.
    You can read the full interview with André 3000 at NPR.org/music.
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    What we learned from our parents' record collections Nov 13, 2023

    The holiday season is a time for reflection — so, we're reflecting on music, with stories and memories from listeners who recall what they first discovered from their parents' record collections.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 10 Nov 10, 2023

    The week's best albums include the gothic Heaven Knows from PinkPantheress, a meticulously recreated — and legendary — Bob Dylan concert from Cat Power, Mon LaFerte's seductive Autopoiética and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. PinkPantheress — Heaven Knows
    Featured Songs: "Another Life (feat. Rema)," "Nice to Meet You (feat. Central Cee)," "Blue"
    2. Cat Power — Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Concert Hall
    Featured Songs: "Fourth Time Around," "Ballad of a Thin Man," "She Belongs to Me," "Just Like a Woman"
    3. Mon LaFerte — Autopoiética
    Featured Songs: "Autopoiética," "Tenochtitlan," "40 y MM," "Casta Diva"
    4. Aïsha Devi — Death is Home
    Featured Song: "Immortelle"
    5. mxmtoon — plum blossom (revisited)
    Featured Song: "1-800-DATEME (revisited)"
    6. Chris Stapleton — Higher
    Featured Song: "White Horse"
    7. Lila Blue — Sweet Pea
    Featured Song: "Sweat Pea"
    8. Aesop Rock — Integrated Tech Solutions
    Featured Song: "Infinity Fill Goose Down"
    9. R.E.M. — Up
    Featured Song: "Lotus"
    Other notable releases for Nov. 10:
    AJR — The Maybe Man
    Beirut — Hadsel
    Brandy — Christmas With Brandy
    Daneshevskaya — Long is the Tunnel
    Jelani Blackman — The Heart of It
    Scream — DC Special
    Tyvek — Overground
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    How AI helped The Beatles do the impossible Nov 07, 2023

    Mind-blowing AI tools made it possible for The Beatles to release what they're calling their last song, "Now And Then." To mark the occasion, we're revisiting a conversation with producer Giles Martin, who used the same AI to remix the original mono recordings of The Beatles album Revolver.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 3 Nov 03, 2023

    The week's best albums include rapper and singer Tkay Maidza's menacing yet beautiful Sweet Justice, the ever-shifting jazz rock of Sen Morimoto's Diagnosis, Actress' spellbinding LXXXVIII and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Tkay Maidza — Sweet Justice
    Featured Songs: "WUACV," "Ring-A-Ling," "Ghost!," "Free Throws," "WASP"
    2. Sen Morimoto — Diagnosis
    Featured Songs: "Bad State," "Feel Change," "St. Peter Blind," "Pain"
    3. Actress — LXXXVIII
    Featured Songs: "Push Power," "M2," "Typewriter World," "Its me"
    4. Resavoir — Resavoir
    Featured Song: "Inside Minds"
    5. Kevin Abstract — Blanket
    Featured Song: "Blanket"
    6. Hilary Woods — Acts of Light
    Featured Song: "Burial Rites"
    Other notable releases for Nov. 3:
    Cold War Kids — Cold War Kids
    Ian Sweet — SUCKER
    Jean-Michael Jarre — OXYMOREWORKS
    Jimmy Buffett — Equal Strain on All Parts (final album)
    Joey Alexander — Continuance
    Jung Kook — GOLDEN
    Kevin Drew — Aging
    King Creosote — I DES
    Laura Veirs — Phone Orphans
    Matmos — Return to Archive
    Michael Franti & Spearhead — Big Big Love
    Semisonic — Little Bit of Sun
    Snail Mail — Valentine Demos
    The Struts — Pretty Vicious
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    Tunes that got you through your teens Oct 31, 2023

    We asked listeners to send us stories about a time when music came to the rescue, particularly when they were growing up. On this episode we share some of those stories, along with the music they say helped them get through their teens.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Oct. 27 Oct 27, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the long-awaited sophomore full-length from Black Pumas, Peruvian electronic artist Sofia Kourtesis, The Mountain Goats and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Black Pumas — Chronicles of a Diamond
    Featured Songs: "More Than A Love Song," "Gemini Sun," "Angel," "Hello," "Rock and Roll"
    2. Sofia Kourtesis — Madres
    Featured Songs: "Funkhaus," "Vajkoczy," "Habla Con Ella," "Estación Esperanza (feat. Manu Chao)"
    3. The Mountain Goats — Jenny from Thebes
    Featured Songs: "Fresh Tattoo," "Only One Way," "Going to Dallas"
    4. María José Llergo — ULTRABELLEZA
    Featured Song: "RUEDA, RUEDA"
    5. Mint Field — Aprender a Ser
    Featured Song: "Respiro Profundo"
    6. Taylor Swift — 1989 (Taylor's Version)
    Featured Song: "Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version)"
    7. Shabazz Palaces — Robed in Rareness
    Featured Song: "Binoculars (feat. Royce The Choice)"
    8. Nirvana — In Utero (30th Anniversary Super Deluxe)
    Featured Song: "Heart-Shaped Box (Live In Seattle, Seattle Center Arena - January 7, 1994)"
    Other notable releases for Oct. 27:
    Angie McMahon — Light, Dark, Light Again
    DJ Shadow — Action Adventure
    Duran Duran — DANSE MACABRE
    The Gaslight Anthem — History Books
    The Kills — God Games
    Mayer Hawthorne — For All Time
    Mike Reed — The Separatist Party
    Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — Bauhaus Staircase
    Poppy — Zig
    Wild Nothing — Hold
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    Tunes that terrify Oct 24, 2023

    With Halloween coming up we thought we'd revisit an episode featuring songs that rattle the nerves, from Bernard Herman, Iron Maiden and yes, Sufjan Stevens, plus a whole lot more.
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    In conversation: Maluma on becoming a dad, hustling across genres and reggaeton's rise Oct 21, 2023

    The Colombian singer Maluma has a lot to be excited about these days — a world tour, a new album and a shot at exploring a different part of his humanity: being a parent.
    The artist has often felt a sense of responsibility: to support up and coming artists he seeks out on social media and to showcase a more joyful, loving side of Colombia to the world. And, now, responsibility is about to take on a whole new meaning.
    Following a tear-filled performance at the Tiny Desk, the artist sat down with Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre to talk about what it means now to have two loves of his life.
    Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Oct. 20 Oct 20, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include U.K. singer-songwriter Sampha, a Rolling Stones comeback and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Sampha — LAHAI
    Featured Songs: "Dancing Circles," "Stereo Colour Cloud (Shaman's Dream)," "What If You Hypnotise Me (feat. Léa Sen)," "Spirit 2.0," "Only"
    2. The Rolling Stones — Hackney Diamonds
    Featured Songs: "Bite My Head Off," "Depending On You," "Dreamy Skies," "Mess It Up," "Sweet Sounds Of Heaven," "Whole Wide World"
    3. Glen Hansard — All That Was East Is West of Me Now
    Featured Songs: "The Feast Of Saint John," "Sure As The Rain," "Bearing Witness"
    4. Dylan LeBlanc — Coyote
    Featured Song: "Dust"
    5. Helena Deland — Goodnight Summerland (Out Oct. 13)
    Featured Song: "Bright Green Vibrant Day"
    6. Valee & Michael Vincent Waller — Valeedation
    Featured Song: "Tailor Swift"
    Other notable releases for Oct. 20:
    awakebutstillinbed — Chaos Takes the Wheel and I Am a Passenger
    Blink-182 — ONE MORE TIME...
    Blues Traveler — Traveler's Soul
    Bombay Bicycle Club — My Big Day
    Boys Like Girls — Sunday At Foxwoods
    Devo — 50 Years Of De-Evolution (1972-2023)
    Emily Wolfe — The Blowback
    Israel Nash — Ozarker
    Katie Von Schleicher — A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night
    Lost Girls (Jenny Hval & Håvard Volden) — Selvutsletter
    Pip Blom — Bobbie
    Salt-N-Pepa — Very Necessary (30th Anniversary Edition)
    Sleaford Mods — More Uk Grim EP
    Summer Walker — Girls Need Love (Girls Mix)
    Vince Guaraldi — A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (first-ever release)
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    Songs we should retire Oct 17, 2023

    With the retirement of longtime All Songs host Bob Boilen, we're looking back and sharing some of our favorite episodes from over the years. This week we've got songs we should retire — songs that are undeniably great, that we truly love — and that get overplayed way too much.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out Oct. 13 Oct 13, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Australian pop star Troye Sivan, singer-songwriter Jamila Woods and more.
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    Songs that make you cry Oct 10, 2023

    With Bob Boilen retiring, we're taking time to remember some of our favorite episodes from over the years, including this one about the songs that make you cry, featuring stories from listeners about the music that moves them and why.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out Oct. 6 Oct 06, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the rapper Earl Sweatshirt, the return of Sufjan Stevens and more.
    1. Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist — Voir Dire
    Featured Song: "27 Braids"
    2. Sufjan Stevens — Javelin
    Featured Song: "Goodbye Evergreen"
    3. Jolie Holland — Haunted Mountain
    Featured Song: "Highway 72"
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    Bob Boilen's farewell show: Songs that say 'goodbye' Oct 02, 2023

    Twenty three years after creating and hosting All Songs Considered, Bob Boilen is retiring. But before he goes, we've got a special send-off, featuring a surprise guest list of his favorite artists.
    You'll hear from Brian Eno, Sharon Van Etten, Jeff Tweedy, Mitski and a whole lot more.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 29 Sep 29, 2023

    The best albums out now include singer Jorja Smith's soaring but solitary full-length Falling or Flying, an inspired, messy affair from Cherry Glazerr, Becky G's ode to Mexican Regional and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Jorja Smith — Falling or Flying
    Featured Songs: "Try Me," "Little Things," "Falling or Flying," "Backwards," "She Feels"
    2. Cherry Glazerr — I Don't Want You Anymore
    Featured Songs: "Bad Habit," "Touched You With My Chaos," "I Don't Want You Anymore"
    3. Becky G — ESQUINAS
    Featured Songs: "2NDO CHANCE (feat. Ivan Cornejo)," "CHANEL (feat. Peso Pluma)," "CUIDADITO (feat. Chiquis)," "QUERIDO ABUELO"
    4. Blonde Redhead — Sit Down For Dinner
    Featured Songs: "Before," "Sit Down For Dinner Pt. 1," "Kiss Her Kiss Her"
    5. Wilco — Cousin
    Featured Songs: "Infinite Surprise," "Levee," "Ten Dead," "Sunlight Ends"
    Lightning Round:
    Jlin — Perspective
    Lydia Loveless — Nothing's Gonna Stand In My Way Again (Released Sept. 22)
    MJ Nebreda — Arepa Mixtape
    Molly Burch — Daydreamer
    Other notable releases for Sept. 29:
    Addison Grace — Diving Lessons
    Animal Collective — Isn't It Now?
    Armand Hammer — We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Code Orange — The Above
    Ed Sheeran — Autumn Variations
    Dessa — Bury The Lede
    hemlocke springs — going... going... GONE!
    Maxo — Debbie's Son
    Oneohtrix Point Never — Again
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    Why the Mexican American pop star Becky G always identifies as '200%' Sep 27, 2023
    Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with Becky G, right after her forthcoming Tiny Desk performance, to talk about the cultural mash-up of her music, her philosophy for working with women in the industry and representing her Mexican heritage at Coachella.
    Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    New Mix: Olivia Rodrigo, Sufjan Stevens, Katie Von Schleicher, more Sep 26, 2023

    NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Marissa Lorusso join host Bob Boilen to share their favorite new tracks.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Katy Kirby: "Cubic Zirconia" (Single)
    2. Daneshevskaya: "Somewhere In the Middle," from Long Is the Tunnel
    3. Olivia Rodrigo: "love is embarrassing," from GUTS
    4. Sufjan Stevens: "Will Anybody Ever Love Me?" from Javelin
    5. Katie Von Schleicher: "Every Step Is an Ocean," from A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night
    6. Marina Herlop: "La Alhambra," from Nekkuja

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 22 Sep 22, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Doja Cat's Scarlet, Kylie Minogue's Tension, yeule's genre-hopping softscars and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Doja Cat — Scarlet
    Featured Songs: "Demons," "97," "Go Off," "Often"
    2. Mykki Blanco — Postcards From Italia
    Featured Songs: "Tequila Casino Royale," "Holidays In The Sun," "Love Fell Down Around Me," "Magic On My Back"
    3. yeule — softscars
    Featured Songs: "4ui12," "software update," "x w x," "dazies," "fish in the pool"
    4. Kylie Minogue — Tension
    Featured Songs: "You Still Get Me High," "Padam Padam," "10 Out Of 10," "Story"
    5. Loraine James — Gentle Confrontation
    Featured Songs: "Let U Go (ft. keiyaA)," "Gentle Confrontation," "Glitch the System (Glitch Bitch 2)," "I DM U," "One Way Ticket To the Midwest (Emo) [feat. Corey Mastrangelo]"
    Lightning Round:
    Doechii — "Pacer" (single)
    DUFFY x UHLMANN — Doubles
    Moemaw Naedon and C. Scott — Yinztroducing...
    The National — Laugh Track
    Other notable releases for Sept. 22:
    Bakar — Halo
    Bibio — Sunbursting (EP)
    The Breeders — Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition)
    Brent Cobb — Southern Star
    CHAI — CHAI
    Chappell Roan — The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
    Devendra Banhart — Flying Wig
    Grails — Anches En Maat
    Grrrl Gang — Spunky!
    Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids — Afro Futuristic Dreams
    KEN mode — VOID
    Lydia Loveless — Nothing's Gonna Stand In My Way Again
    Pkew Pkew Pkew — Siiick Days
    Roosevelt — Embrace
    Teenage Fanclub — Nothing Lasts Forever
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    AltLatino dissects the Latin Grammy noms, from snubs to love Sep 20, 2023

    Anamaria Sayre, Felix Contreras and producer Isabella Gomez Sarmiento sit down to talk some real chisme this week — a special episode dedicated to the Latin Grammy nominations. Was there really a regional snub and what does it say about the way we choose to elevate our own art?
    Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    Viking's Choice: MxPx, Daniel Bachman, Matana Roberts, more Sep 19, 2023

    Bob Boilen will retire from NPR on Oct. 2, and he decided to spend one of his final episodes hosting All Songs Considered with NPR Music's resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, for a mix of pop punk, meticulously cut-up banjo drone, worlds-collapsing free jazz and fingerstyle guitar.
    Featured Songs And Artists:
    1. MxPx: "What I Tell Myself" from Find a Way Home
    2. Slant: "Criminal" from Demo 2023
    3. Daniel Bachman: "Summer's fingers sweetly linger (Everywhere on every side)" from When the Roses Come Again
    4. Matana Roberts: "shake my bones" from Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden...
    5. Svitlana Nianio: "Episode III" from Transilvania Smile, 1994
    6. Liam Grant: "Androscogging River Ragg" from Amoskeag
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Sept. 15 Sep 15, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Corinne Bailey Rae's Black Rainbows, Mitski's The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, a stunning debut from Ralphie Choo and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Corinne Bailey Rae — Black Rainbows
    Featured Songs: "Erasure," "Peach Velvet Sky," "A Spell, A Prayer," "New York Transit Queen"
    2. Mitski — The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We
    Featured Songs: "I Don't Like My Mind," "When Memories Snow," "The Frost," "The Deal," "I Love Me After You"
    3. Ralphie Choo — SUPERNOVA
    Featured Songs: "MÁQUINA CULONA (feat Mura Masa)," "BULERÍAS DE UN CABALLO MALO," "WHIPCREAM (feat. Paris Texas)," "TANGOS DE UNA MOTO TRUCADA"
    4. Vagabon — Sorry I Haven't Called
    Featured Songs: "Lexicon," "Do Your Worst," "Can I Talk My S***?," "Nothing to Lose"
    Lightning Round:
    The Beaches — Blame My Ex
    Jóhann Jóhannsson — A Prayer to the Dynamo
    Killer Mike — MICHAEL (Deluxe)
    Madison Beer — Silence Between Songs
    Pharoah Sanders — Pharoah
    Other notable releases for Sept. 15:
    Baroness — Stone
    Bombino — Sahel
    Carlos Niño & Friends — (I'm just) Chillin', on Fire
    Cleo Sol — Heaven
    Christone "Kingfish" Ingram — Live In London
    Demi Lovato — Revamped
    Dengue Fever — Ting Mong
    Explosions in the Sky — End
    K. Flay — MONO
    Luluc — DiamondsShakey Graves — Movie of the Week
    S. Carey & John Raymond — Shadowlands
    Teddy Swims — I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Pt. 1)
    Vic Mensa — Victor
    Woods — Perennial
    Worriers — Trust Your Gut
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    A preview of this year's 'El Tiny' lineup Sep 13, 2023

    This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras preview the artists coming to play Tiny Desk performances for their 'El Tiny' takeover, including indie explosion Kali Uchis returning home to Colombian beats, pop star Becky G debuting some Mexican regional soul and "La Caballota" herself Ivy Queen boasting pure boricua pride.
    Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Cher Vincent. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    Nirvana's 'In Utero' at 30 Sep 12, 2023

    Thirty years ago this month, Nirvana released what would be its third and final album, In Utero. To mark the milestone, we revisit our 2013 conversation with surviving members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic (for what was then In Utero's 20th anniversary) about how the album came to be.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Sept. 8 Sep 08, 2023

    The best albums out this week include Olivia Rodrigo's GUTS, James Blake's Playing Robots Into Heaven, Yussef Dayes' Black Classical Music and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Olivia Rodrigo — GUTS
    Featured Songs: "get him back!" "all-american bitch," "ballad of a homeschooled girl," "the grudge"
    2. Jalen Ngonda — Come Around and Love Me
    Featured Songs: "Come Around and Love Me," "It Takes a Fool," "Give Me Another Day"
    3. Anjimile — The King
    Featured Songs: "Mother," "Genesis," "Black Hole," "The King"
    4. James Blake — Playing Robots Into Heaven
    Featured Songs: "Big Hammer," "If You Can Hear Me," "Fall Back," "Fire The Editor," "I Want You to Know"
    5. Yussef Dayes — Black Classical Music
    Featured Songs: "Afro Cubanism," "Marching Band (feat. Masego)," "Birds of Paradise," "Black Classical Music (feat. Venna & Charlie Stacey)," "Early Dayes," "Cowrie Charms (feat. Leon Thomas & Barbara Hicks)"
    Lightning Round:
    Allison Russell — The Returner
    Romy — Mid Air
    Sparklehorse — Bird Machine
    Sylvester — Private Recordings, August 1970
    Other notable releases for Sept. 8:
    Apollo Brown & Planet Asia — Sardines
    Ashley McBryde — The Devil I Know
    Blind Boys of Alabama — Echoes Of The South
    The Chemical Brothers — For That Beautiful Feeling
    Courtney Barnett — End of the Day
    Gaika — Drift
    Irreversible Entanglements — Protect Your Light
    Laufey — Bewitched
    Róisín Murphy — Hit Parade
    Teezo Touchdown — How Do You Sleep At Night?
    Tinashe — BB/ANG3L
    Tyler Childers — Rustin' in the Rain
    V — Layover
    ZZ Ward — Dirty Shine
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Sept. 1 Sep 01, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the jagged indie-rock of Rabbit Rabbit from Speedy Ortiz, hip-hop royalty Illa J's No Traffic and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Speedy Ortiz — Rabbit Rabbit
    Featured Songs: "Ghostwriter," "Ballad of Y&S," "Scabs," "Kim Cattrall"
    2. Illa J — No Traffic
    Featured Songs: "Off the Tap," "Circus," "Get Down (feat. AmpFiddler)," "Snaps," "OG Funk"
    3. Puma Blue — Holy Waters
    Featured Songs: "Hounds," "O, The Blood!," "Falling Down," "Pretty"
    4. Slowdive — everything is alive
    Featured Songs: "alife," "prayer remembered," "shanty"
    Lightning Round:
    L'Rain — "Pet Rock" (Single)
    Ama Lou — I Came Home Late
    Kendra Morris — I Am What I'm Waiting For
    Jeff Rosenstock — HELLMODE
    Other notable releases for Sept. 1:
    The 1975 — Live From Gorilla
    Aesop Rock — Skelethon (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
    dadá Joãozinho — tds bem Global
    Dream — to whoever wants to hear EP
    Field Music — light is gone 2
    Ghost of Vroom — Ghost of Vroom 3
    Icona Pop — Club Romantech
    Larry Fleet — Earned It
    Laya — Bet That EP
    The Natvral — Summer of No Light
    Neil Young — Odeon Budokan
    Taake — Et Hav av Avstand

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    A lot of songs about ice cream Aug 29, 2023

    As summer break comes to a close for many and students head back to school, we take a moment to celebrate one of the season's greatest joys: ice cream. It turns out there are a lot of songs about this delightful treat. So, for this week's episode, we're sharing a show from our archives all about ice cream and the (many) ways it's inspired bands and artists over the years.
    Note: This episode originally ran on July 12, 2016

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 25 Aug 25, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include global sensation Burna Boy, rising R&B star Victoria Monét and more.
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    The hip-hop verse that changed my life Aug 23, 2023

    From our friends at Pop Culture Happy Hour: What makes for an unshakable rap verse — the kind that shifts your world view and sticks around years after the first time you encountered it? This month marks 50 years since the birth of hip-hop, so we reached out to some NPR colleagues and a few hip-hop luminaries and asked them what hip-hop verse changed their lives.
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    A conversation with Paul Simon Aug 22, 2023

    Singer Paul Simon surprised fans earlier this year by releasing Seven Psalms, his first album since 2018. It was surprising not because so much time had passed, but because he had originally said his previous album, In the Blue Light, would be his last. In an interview with All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen, Simon said he was ready to retire from music and pursue other creative projects, like painting. This week, we go back to that 2018 conversation when Simon first announced he was done making new music. He talks about his dreams, the creative process and life's biggest questions. "We don't have the capacity to understand the great mysteries of life and God or no God or infinity," Simon says. "We just can't get it. It's beyond us, but that's fine."
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 18 Aug 18, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new releases from Jon Batiste, Hozier, Rhiannon Giddens, Cautious Clay and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Jon Batiste — World Music Radio
    Featured Songs: "BOOM FOR REAL," "Hello, Billy Bob," "Be Who You Are (feat. JID, NewJeans & Camilo)," "Uneasy (feat. Lil Wayne)"
    2. Hozier — Unreal Unearth
    Featured Songs: "Anything But," "De Selby (Part 1)," "Eat Your Young," "Butchered Tongue," "Who We Are"
    3. Genesis Owusu — Struggler
    Featured Songs: "Leaving The Light," "Stay Blessed," "Freak Boy," "That's Life (A Swamp)"
    4. Rhiannon Giddens — You're the One
    Featured Songs: "Way Over Yonder," "You Louisiana Man," "If You Don't Know How Sweet It Is"
    5. Cautious Clay — KARPEH
    Featured Songs: "Fishtown," "102 Years of Comedy (Intro)," "Karpehs Don't Flinch"
    Lightning Round:
    DeYarmond Edison — EPOCH
    Quavo — Rocket Power
    Reneé Rapp — Snow Angel
    Talking Heads — Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition)
    Other notable releases for Aug. 18:
    Alana Springsteen — Twenty Something
    Birdy — Portraits
    Bobby Rush — All My Love For You
    Fiddlehead — Death is Nothing To Us
    Grace Potter — Mother Road
    Margaret Glaspy — Echo The Diamond
    Mick Jenkins — The Patience
    Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood — Reset In Dub
    Russ — SANTIAGO
    Shamir — Homo Anxietatem
    Tash Sultana — Sugar EP.
    Teddy Thompson — My Love of Country
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    Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: DannyLux, Kali Uchis and Dario Acosta Teich Aug 16, 2023

    This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite music from the last few months, including Mexican bedroom pop from Bratty, jazz from Argentinian composer Dario Acosta Teich, a new song from rising regional star DannyLux and more.
    To hear more of Alt.Latino's favorite music, follow our Spotify and Apple Music playlists.
    Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited, mixed and produced by Janice Llamoca. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    A conversation with Robbie Robertson Aug 15, 2023

    Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter for The Band, died Aug. 9 at the age of 80. For this remembrance, we're sharing an encore presentation of a conversation Robertson had with All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen in 2018, on the 50th anniversary of The Band's seminal album Music From Big Pink.
    Note: This interview originally published Aug. 8, 2018.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 11 Aug 11, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Noname's long-awaited Sundial, Karol G's Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season), a long-lost Neil Young release and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Noname — Sundial
    Featured Songs: "Oblivion (feat. Atyoni & Common)," "Beauty Supply," "Namesake"
    2. Jungle — Volcano
    Featured Songs: "Us Against the World," "Candle Flame (feat. Erick the Architect)," "Dominoes," Every Night"
    3. Neil Young — Chrome Dreams
    Featured Songs: "Will to Love," "Like a Hurricane," "Look Out for My Love"
    4. Joell Ortiz & L'Orange — Signature
    Featured Songs: "Uncle Chris Car," "Therapeutic," "OG," "One Day"
    5. Son Lux — Alternate Forms
    Featured Songs: "Ransom (All Innocence)," "Alternate Worlds (Alternate Life)," "Easy (Fight to Forget)," "No Crimes (New History)"
    Lightning Round:
    Bonnie "Prince" Billy — Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You
    G Flip — Drummer
    Karol G — Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season)
    Tash Sultana — "Bitter Lovers (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid)" (Single)
    Other notable releases for Aug. 11:
    K.A.A.N. — The Death of a Rapper
    Lawrence English & Lea Bertucci — Chthonic
    Les Imprimés — Rêverie
    Louis Cato — Reflections
    Peter McPoland — Piggy
    Public Image Ltd. — End of World
    Spencer Zahn — Statues I
    $uicideboy$ — I No Longer Feel The Razor Guarding My Heel (V)
    Suzi Quatro & KT Tunstall — Face to Face
    Trippe Redd — A Love Letter To you 5
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    Hip-hop is 50. Its formula for global domination? Staying local Aug 10, 2023

    When DJ Kool Herc spun records at a small party in the Bronx in August of 1973, no one would have predicted his unique style would give birth to the most influential and dominant music in the world: hip-hop. In this special episode, we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the genre by looking at how and why the music has managed to remain a local phenomenon, even as it's taken hold of the world, and what's happening in some of the country's most vibrant scenes.
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    Encore: How Son Lux scored 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' Aug 08, 2023

    This week, Son Lux returns with Alternate Forms, the band's first new album since releasing its beloved score to the film Everything Everywhere All At Once. To mark the occasion, we're sharing an encore presentation of our interview with Son Lux frontman Ryan Lott about how the band managed to score one of the most awarded — and bonkers — films of all time.
    This interview originally ran on Feb. 20, 2023.

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    In conversation: Athlete-turned-rapper Eladio Carrión on the fine art of practice Aug 02, 2023

    Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with the Puerto Rican hip-hop artist Eladio Carrión to discuss what drives him, learning Spanish through music and how he's changing the game of Latin rap.
    Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Cher Vincent, with production support from Suraya Mohamed and Robin Hilton. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    New Mix: Mitski, Irreversible Entanglements, Sally Anne Morgan, more Aug 01, 2023

    NPR Music's Lars Gotrich joins All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen to share their favorite new tracks of the week.
    Featured Songs And Artists:
    1. Meurtrières: "Ronde De Nuit," from Ronde De Nuit
    2. Sally Anne Morgan: "Awake," from Carrying
    3. Mitski: "Bug Like an Angel," from The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    4. GUJI: "I Like to Hang Out in China," from GUJI
    5. Irreversible Entanglements: "Free Love," from Protect Your Light
    6. Activity: "Careful Let's Sleepwalk," from Spirit in the Room
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 28 Jul 28, 2023

    The best albums out this week include new ones from Post Malone, Carly Rae Jepsen, composer and singer Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Joni Mitchell's surprise performance at Newport last year and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Post Malone — AUSTIN
    Featured Songs: "Texas Tea," "Something Real," "Don't Understand," "Mourning"
    2. Georgia — Euphoric
    Featured Songs: "It's Euphoric," "Give It up for Love," "Live Like We're Dancing (Part II)," "Friends Will Never Let You Go"
    3. Beverly Glenn-Copeland — The Ones Ahead
    Featured Songs: "Harbour (Song For Elizabeth)," "People of the Loon," "Stand Anthem"
    4. Carly Rae Jepsen — The Loveliest Time
    Featured Songs: "Anything to Be With You," "Shy Boy," "Kollage," "So Right," "Stadium Love"
    5. Joni Mitchell — At Newport
    Featured Songs: "Both Sides, Now," "Just Like This Train," "Amelia (feat. Taylor Goldsmith)," "Summertime"
    Lightning Round:
    Chika — SAMSON: THE ALBUM
    Madeline Kenney — A New Reality Mind
    Paris Texas — MID AIR
    Stevie Nicks — Stevie Nicks Complete Studio Albums & Rarities
    Other notable releases for July 28:
    Aphex Twin — Black Box Life Recorder 21f / in a Room7 F760
    Bethany Cosentino — Natural Disaster
    The Budos Band — Frontier's Edge
    Bush Tetras — They Live in My Head
    Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah — Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning
    The Clientele — I Am Not There Anymore
    Darlingside — Everything Is Alive
    Fly Anakin — Skinemaxxx (Side B)
    Jessy Lanza — Love Hallucination
    Nite Bjuti — Nite Bjuti
    Travis Scott — UTOPIA
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    New Mix: Big Thief, Squirrel Flower, more Jul 25, 2023

    NPR Music's Hazel Cills and critic Marissa Lorusso join All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen to share their favorite new tracks of the week.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Mary Jane Dunphe: "Stage of Love," from Stage of Love
    2. Squirrel Flower: "When A Plant Is Dying," from Tomorrow's Fire
    3. Saya Gray: "DIZZY PPL BECOME BLURRY," from QWERTY
    4. SPELLLING: "Under the Sun," from SPELLLING & the Mystery School
    5. Josaleigh Pollett: "Empty Things," from In the Garden, by the Weeds
    6. Sivan Levy: "Jacaranda," from side:s EP
    7. Big Thief: "Vampire Empire" (Single)

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 21 Jul 21, 2023

    K-Pop convention-breakers NewJeans drop their second EP this week, along with new ones from Andrew Bird, Fatboi Sharif, the super-stacked Barbie soundtrack, a rare Nina Simone recording and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. New Jeans — Get Up
    Featured Songs: "ETA," "Super Shy," "ASAP"
    2. Fatboi Sharif & Steel Tipped Dove — Decay
    Featured Songs: "Designer Drugs," "Phantasm," "The 6th Floor," "Dimethyltryptamine," "Green Winged Shoulder Padding"
    3. Andrew Bird — Outside Problems
    Featured Songs: "Festivus," "Mormon House Party," "Mancey"
    4. Various — Barbie The Album
    Featured Songs: Dua Lipa, "Dance the Night"; Lizzo, "Pink"; Sam Smith, "Man I Am"; GAYLE, "butterflies"; Billie Eilish, "What Was I Made For"; Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice (with Aqua), "Barbie World"
    5. Nina Simone — You've Got to Learn
    Featured Songs: "Blues for Mama," "Mississippi Goddamn," "You've Got to Learn"
    Lightning Round:
    Blur — The Ballad of Darren
    Lucki — s*x m*ney dr*gs (released July 14)
    MJ Lenderman — "Rudolph" (Single)
    Mother Tongues — Love in a Vicious Way
    Other notable releases for July 21:
    Allegra Krieger — I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
    Babyface Ray — Summer's Mine
    Guided By Voices — Welshpool Frillies
    Greta Van Fleet — Starcatcher
    Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol & Whatsnext? — Turkish Hipster: Tales From Swing To Psychedelic
    Nils Lofgren — Mountains
    Paris Texas — MID AIR
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    In conversation: How YEИDRY uses music to bridge worlds Jul 19, 2023
    Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre speaks with YEИDRY, the Dominican-born, Italian-raised singer about using music as a tool to marry her two worlds.
    Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    New Mix: Courtney Barnett, Grandaddy, Lowland Hum, more Jul 18, 2023

    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite discoveries of the week.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Grandaddy: "The Town where I'm Livin Now," from Sumday: Excess Baggage
    2. Liza Anne: "Rainbow Sweater," from (Single)
    3. Courtney Barnett & Stella Mozgawa: "Life Balance," from End Of The Day (music from the film Anonymous Club)
    4. Lowland Hum: "Together (In That Way)," from From Self, With Love
    5. Raia Was: "If You're Asking (I'm Offering)," from Captain Obvious
    6. Yard Act: "The Trench Coat Museum," from (Single)

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 14 Jul 14, 2023

    The best albums out this week include Beautiful and Brutal Yard from rapper J Hus, the ragged rock of Palehound, vivid reflections on life in your 20s from country singer Alana Springsteen and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Kool & The Gang — People Just Wanna Have Fun
    Featured Songs: "Go Get It," "Let's Party (feat. Sha Sha Jones)," "That's What I Love About You," "My Weakness"
    2. Alana Springsteen — TWENTY SOMETHING: Figuring It Out
    Featured Songs: "twenty something," "chameleon," "when we were friends"
    3. Mahalia — IRL
    Featured Songs: "In My Head (feat. Joyce Wrice)," "Ready," "Terms and Conditions," "It's Not Me, It's You (feat. Destin Conrad)," "Wassup (feat. Kojey Radical)"
    4. J Hus — Beautiful and Brutal Yard
    Featured Songs: "Who Told You (feat. Drake)," "Bim Bim," "Cream (feat. CB)"
    5. Palehound — Eye on the Bat
    Featured Songs: "The Clutch," "Independence Day," "Head Like Soup," "My Evil"
    Lightning Round:
    Haviah Mighty — Crying Crystals
    Rauw Alejandro — PLAYA SATURNO
    Rita Ora — You & I
    Tessa Violet — MY GOD!
    Other notable releases for July 14:
    Blake Mills — Jelly Road
    Hilary Hahn — Eugène Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Violin Solo, op. 27
    IDMAN — Risk
    Lauren Spencer-Smith — Mirror
    Lindstrøm — Everyone Else is a Stranger
    Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog — Connection
    PVRIS — EVERGREEN
    TECH N9NE — Bliss
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    New Mix: Margo Price, Palehound, Talking Heads (Live), more Jul 11, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Palehound: "Independence Day," from Eye on the Bat
    2. Talking Heads: "Cities (Live)," from Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition) [Live]
    3. Margo Price: "Strangers in a Strange Land," from A Song For Leon
    4. Hania Rani: "Dancing with Ghosts" (feat. Patrick Watson), from Ghosts
    5. Laufey: "Promise," from Bewitched
    6. Margaret Glaspy: "Act Natural," from Echo The Diamond
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 7 Jul 07, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the return of PJ Harvey, the continued arrival of Dominic Fike, Little Dragon, Aluna and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Aluna — MYCELiUM
    Featured Songs: "The Way I'm Wired," "Kiss It Better"
    2. Dominic Fike — Sunburn
    Featured Songs: "Sick," "How Much Is Weed?" "Ant Pile"
    3. ANOHNI and the Johnsons — My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
    Featured Songs: "Rest," "It Must Change," "Sliver Of Ice"
    4. Little Dragon — Slugs of Love
    Featured Songs: "Slugs of Love," "Kenneth," "Tumbling Dice"
    5. PJ Harvey — I Inside the Old Year Dying
    Featured Songs: "Lwonesome Tonight," "Seem an I," "A Child's Question, August"
    Lightning Round:
    Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band — Kings Highway
    The Japanese House — In The End It Always Does
    Julie Byrne — The Greater Wings
    Sampha — "Spirit 2.0" (Single)
    Other notable releases for July 7:
    AJ Suede — Ark Flashington
    Alayna — Self Portrait Of A Woman Unraveling
    Alice Phoebe Lou — Shelter
    Jim O'Rourke — Hands That Bind (OST)
    Local Natives — Time Will Wait For No One
    The Pink Spiders — Freakazoid
    Taylor Swift — Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
    Various — The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs Of Nick Drake
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    PJ Harvey on how she turned her epic poem 'Orlam' into a potent new album Jul 06, 2023

    The singer talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers about Harvey's album I Inside the Old Year Dying, a ragged, highly crafted adaptation of her epic poem Orlam. It's a work that runs on the rhythm of the seasons and captures the beauty, fantastical rawness and occasional horror of English rural life.
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    Alt.Latino picks the best music of 2023 (so far) Jul 05, 2023

    Hosts Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite albums of 2023 so far, from the modern corridos tumbados of Peso Pluma, a new, reimagined version of one of Fito Paez's greatest albums, dream pop from Y La Bamba and more. Plus: a run down of regional Mexican's current explosion.
    Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    Favorite New Artists Of 2023 (So Far) Jun 27, 2023

    On this edition of All Songs Considered, we asked NPR member stations to pick their favorite new artists of 2023.
    1. Blondshell: "Olympus," from 'Blondshell'
    2. Hannah Jadagu: "What You Did," from 'Aperture'
    3. Nat Myers: "Yellow Peril," from 'Yellow Peril'
    4. Abraham Alexander: "Tears Run Dry," from 'SEA/SONS'
    5. Madison McFerrin: "Stay Away (From Me)," from 'I Hope You Can Forgive Me'
    6. Peter One: "Cherie Vico," from 'Come Back To Me'
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 23 Jun 23, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include a self-titled dopamine hit from Coi Leray, the return of Big Freedia, Kelly Clarkson, a debut from Tommy Prine and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Coi Leray — COI
    Featured Songs: "Black Rose," "Bops," "Bitch Girl," "My Body"
    2. Big Freedia — Central City
    Featured Songs: "$100 Bill (feat. Ciara)," "Central City Freestyle," "Bigfoot," "Big Time"
    3. Tommy Prine — This Far South
    Featured Songs: "Crashing Again," "By the Way," "Some Things"
    4. Kelly Clarkson — Chemistry
    Featured Songs: "favorite kind of high," "my mistake," "skip this part"
    5. Arthur Russell — Picture of Bunny Rabbit
    Featured Songs: "The Boy With a Smile," "Picture of Bunny Rabbit"
    Lightning Round:
    Bishop Briggs — When Everything Went Dark
    Lloyd Cole — On Pain
    Portugal. The Man — Chris Black Changed My Life
    Sleep Sinatra — Incorruptible Saints (feat. Televangel)
    Other notable releases for June 23:
    Amanda Shires, Bobbie Nelson — Loving You
    Eliza Gilkyson — Home
    Jason Mraz — Mystical Magical Rhythmical Ride
    Kim Petras — Feed The Beast
    Lunice — OPEN
    M. Ward — Supernatural Thing
    Peso Pluma — Genesis
    Wallice — Mr. Big Shot
    The Watson Twins — Holler
    Wye Oak — Every Day Like the Last
    Young Thug — BUSINESS IS BUSINESS
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    In conversation: Sheila E. on faith, family and her eclectic music career Jun 21, 2023
    Alt.Latino's Felix Contreras sits down with percussion icon Sheila Escovedo, aka Sheila E., to talk about the influence of the Bay Area on her music, holding her own in the face of music industry sexism and why drumming is a language of its own.
    Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    New Mix: FIZZ, Luluc, Silvana Estrada, more Jun 20, 2023

    Have you heard dodie's new band? Looking for some ethereal sonic adventures? On this week's All Songs Considered, NPR Music's Hazel Cills along with Marissa Lorusso (hopefully) turn you on to something new, beginning with FIZZ, the new crazy fun band from dodie.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. FIZZ: "High In Brighton," from The Secret To Life
    2. L'Rain: "New Year's UnResolution," (Single)
    3. Glasser: "Vine," from crux
    4. Allegra Krieger: "Lingering," from I Keep My Feet on the Fragile Plane
    5. Silvana Estrada: "Milagro y Desastre," from (Single)
    6. Luluc: "Diamonds," from Diamonds

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 16 Jun 16, 2023

    The best releases out this week include Killer Mike's first solo album in more than a decade, the majestic return of Iceland's Sigur Rós, the legendary Bettye LaVette, Asake and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Bettye LaVette — LaVette!
    Featured Songs: "Mess About It (feat. Ray Parker & Jon Batiste)," "Hard to Be a Human," "Plan B"
    2. Killer Mike — Michael
    Featured Songs: "Two Days (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)," "Motherless," "Down By Law (feat. Cee-Lo Green)," "Scientists & Engineers (feat. Andre 3000, Future & Eryn Allen Kane)," "Something for the Junkies (feat. Fabo & Minister Louis Farrakhan)"
    3. Sigur Rós — ÁTTA
    Featured Songs: "Klettur," "Skel," "Mór"
    4. Asake — Work Of Art
    Featured Songs: "2:30," "Lonely at the Top," "What's Up My G"
    5. Meshell Ndegeocello — The Omnichord Real Book
    Featured Songs: "Georgia Ave. (feat. Josh Johnson)," "Good Good (feat. Jade Hicks & Josh Johnson)," "Call the Tune"
    Lightning Round:
    Ambré — who's loving you?
    Hand Habits — Sugar the Bruise
    Memorrhage — Memorrhage
    Wild Up — Julius Eastman Vol. 3: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?

    Other notable releases for June 16:
    Balmorhea — Pendant World
    Ben Howard — Is It?
    Boris & Uniform — Bright New Disease
    Deer Tick — Emotional Contracts
    King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard — PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
    Kool Keith — Black Elvis 2
    Queens of the Stone Age — In Times New Roman
    Son Volt — Day of the Doug
    Yusuf / Cat Stevens — King of a Land
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    Jónsi talks about 'ÁTTA,' the new album by Sigur Rós Jun 15, 2023

    On this special edition of All Songs Considered, Bob Boilen speaks with Jónsi, from the Icelandic band Sigur Rós, about ÁTTA, that group's first studio album in more than 10 years. Coming out 26 years after they released their first album, ÁTTA is music the group made over years, first in informal reunions in Jónsi's basement before and during the COVID pandemic, and eventually in collaboration with the London Contemporary Orchestra. The unmistakable singer talks about how it felt to have the band playing together again after a decade and reveals some of the meaning behind the first single from the album.
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    New Mix: Bob Dylan, Sparks, Darlingside, Annie Bartholomew, more Jun 13, 2023

    Bob Boilen shares new songs (in one case, a new recording) from a few of his favorite artists, plus discoveries from Montana and Alaska.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Bob Dylan: "When I Paint My Masterpiece," from Shadow Kingdom
    2. Annie Bartholomew: "All for the Klondike's Gold," from Sisters of White Chapel
    3. Darlingside: "Eliza I See," from Everything Is Alive
    4. Sparks: "Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is," from The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
    5. Alaska Reid: "Back To This," from Disenchanter
    6. Buck Meek: "Haunted Mountain," from Haunted Mountain

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 9 Jun 09, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Amaarae, Janelle Monáe, King Krule, Keaton Henson and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Amaarae — Fountain Baby
    Featured Songs: "Counterfeit," "Angels in Tibet," "Sex, Violence, Suicide Pt. 2," "Come Home to God"
    2. King Krule — Space Heavy
    Featured Songs: "Hamburgerphobia," "That Is My Life, That Is Yours," "Pink Shell"
    3. Jenny Lewis — Joy'All
    Featured Songs: "Joy'All," "Chain of Tears," "Puppy and a Truck"
    4. Janelle Monáe — The Age of Pleasure
    Featured Songs: "Champagne Shit," "Black Sugar Beach," "Phenomenal (feat. Doechii)," "Lipstick Lover"
    5. Keaton Henson — House Party
    Featured Songs: "I'm Not There," "Holiday," "Envy," "Hooray"
    Lightning Round:
    Emile Mosseri — Heaven Hunters
    Feeble Little Horse — Girl With Fish
    Squid — O Monolith
    Youth Lagoon — Heaven is a Junkyard
    Other notable releases for June 9:
    Andy Stack & Jay Hammond — Inter Personal
    Christine and the Queens — Paranoia, Angels, True Love
    The Dead Milkmen — Quaker City Quiet Pills
    Dream Wife — Social Lubrication
    Gabriel Ólafs — Lullabies For Piano And Cello
    Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit — Weathervanes
    Jayda G — Guy
    Jess Williamson — Time Ain't Accidental
    Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa — Jarak Qaribak
    This Is The Kit — Careful Of Your Keepers
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    Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Eduardo Cabra, Santa Fe Klan and Elsa y Elmar Jun 07, 2023

    This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite music from the last few months, including new work from the prolific Eduardo Cabra, surprisingly straight-ahead regional from Santa Fe Klan and a premiere of a new song from Elsa y Elmar.
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    Viking's Choice: Anjimile, High Rise, Fatoumata Diawara, more Jun 06, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music's Lars Gotrich share their favorite new tracks including new music from the Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, the Swedish ambient rock artist SOLE and more.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Dorotheo: "Las Nubes," from Nada Escrito
    2. Fatoumata Diawara: "Dambe," from London Ko
    3. High Rise: "Outside Gentiles," from Dispersion
    4. Anjimile: "The King," from The King
    5. Laure Boer: "Lapin," from Les cit​é​s englouties
    6. SOLE: "nous (feat. Chamoon)," from våra liv
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 2 Jun 02, 2023

    Hear the powerfully poetic Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!? from McKinley Dixon, a scorcher from Bully, Aisha Badru's Learning to Love Again, the first new solo album in 15 years from Ben Folds and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. McKinley Dixon — Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
    Featured Songs: "Run, Run, Run," "Hanif Reads Toni," "Live! From the Kitchen Table (feat. Ghais Guevara)"
    2. Bully — Lucky For You
    Featured Songs: "Hard to Love," "Lose You (feat. Soccer Mommy)," "All I Do"
    3. Aisha Badru — Learning to Love Again
    Featured Songs: "Path of Least Resistance," "Inside," "Move"
    4. Ben Folds — What Matters Most
    Featured Songs: "What Matters Most," "Clouds with Ellipses," "Kristine from the 7th Grade," "Moments (feat. Tall Heights)"
    5. W.I.T.C.H. — Zango
    Featured Songs: "Waile," "Avalanche of Love (feat. Sampa the Great)"
    Lightning Round:
    Foo Fighters — But Here We Are
    Juan Wauters — Wandering Rebel
    Lazy Salon — Bellis
    Toosii — NAUJOUR
    Other notable releases for June 2:
    The Aquadolls — Charmed
    Bob Dylan — Shadow Kingdom
    Cowboy Junkies — Such Ferocious Beauty
    Jack Johnson — In Between Dub
    Kenny Rogers — Life is Like a Song
    Linda May Han Oh — The Glass Hours
    Moneybagg Yo — Hard to Love
    Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds — Council Skies
    Protomartyr — Formal
    Rufus Wainwright — Folkocracy
    Tanya Tucker — Sweet Western Sound
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    How the 'scarcity mindset' enforces the unwritten rules of rap Jun 01, 2023

    Over the last nine episodes, Louder Than A Riot has tackled the unwritten rules of rap that hold the whole culture back. For the show's finale, we dig into the root of all those rules: the scarcity mindset. It's the belief that access and resources are so limited for those marginalized in hip-hop that you have to fight tooth and nail for them, and that only one can make it to the top at a time.
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    Remembering Tina Turner May 30, 2023

    Our friends at Pop Culture Happy Hour remember the legendary Tina Turner, who died last week at the age of 83, leaving behind an indelible legacy that spanned decades across the music world, the stage, and the screen.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 26 May 26, 2023

    The best albums out this week include Lil Durk's Almost Healed, reflections on surviving your 20s from Arlo Parks and Miya Folick, Gia Margaret's Romantic Piano, a new Kassa Overall project and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Lil Durk — Almost Healed
    Featured Songs: "Same Side (feat. Rob49)," "Therapy Session," "Never Again," "All My Life (feat. J. Cole)"
    2. Arlo Parks — My Soft Machine
    Featured Songs: "Dog Rose," "Bruiseless," "Purple Phase," "Pegasus (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)"
    3. Gia Margaret — Romantic Piano
    Featured Songs: "Ways of Seeing," "Cicadas," "Juno"
    4. Kassa Overall — ANIMALS
    Featured Songs: "Clock Ticking (feat. Danny Brown & Wiki)," "Still Ain't Find Me (feat. Tomoki Sanders, Bendji Allonce, Mike King & Ian Finklestein)"
    5. Miya Folick — ROACH
    Featured Songs: "Get Out of My House," "Oh God," "Cartoon Clouds"
    Lightning Round:
    Alex Anwandter — El Diablo en el Cuerpo
    Anna Thorvaldsdottir — ARCHORA / AIŌN
    Sparks — The Girl is Crying in Her Latte
    Wande Coal — Legend or No Legend
    Other notable releases for May 26:
    Bayonne — Temporary Time
    Henry Threadgill — The Other One
    Janani Shankar — Hot & Cold
    Kari Faux — REAL B*TCHES DON'T DIE!
    Kevin Morby — More Photographs (A Continuum)
    MeeeZ — [red album]
    M. Sage — Paradise Crick
    Matchbox Twenty — Where The Light Goes
    Mike Oldfield — Tubular Bells - 50th Anniversary Celebration
    Maya Ongaku — Approach to Anima
    Shirley Collins — Archangel Hill
    Simply Red — Time
    Water From Your Eyes — Everyone's Crushed
    Wolf Eyes — Dreams in Splattered Lines

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    Like poppa, like son: Rodney Carmichael May 25, 2023

    On this episode of Louder Than A Riot, something a little different: It's part meditation, part conversation — between host Rodney Carmichael and writers Kiese Laymon and Jamilah Lemieux — about beats, rhymes and life. For Rodney, interrogating misogynoir in hip-hop means confronting some hard questions — as a man, and especially as a father. As Rodney thinks about raising the next generation without replicating his mistakes, he's looking more closely at how hip-hop shaped his definition of masculinity.
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    In conversation: Cellist Mabe Fratti on embracing imperfections and going to extremes May 24, 2023
    Alt.Latino host Anamaria Sayre sits down with the experimental, Guatemalan cellist Mabe Fratti to discuss the admiration she's developed for imperfection, finding a musical community in Mexico City and how religion sparked a personal rebellion.
    Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Robin Hilton. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    New Mix: Tiny Desk Contest winner Little Moon, ANOHNI, yeule and more May 23, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music editor Hazel Cills share their favorite new tracks of the week and highlight this year's new Tiny Desk Contest winner, the Springville, Utah, band Little Moon.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Little Moon: "Wonder Eye" (Single)
    2. yeule: "sulky baby" (Single)
    3. Sweeping Promises: "Eraser," from Good Living Is Coming For You
    4. Cola: "Keys Down If You Stay" (Single)
    5. ANOHNI & The Johnsons: "It Must Change," from My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
    6. Chris Farren: "Cosmic Leash," from Doom Singer

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 19 May 19, 2023

    A joint project from the rapper Aminé and producer KAYTRANADA tops our list of the best albums out this week, along with new ones from Paul Simon, Kesha, Sufjan Stevens and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Aminé & Kaytranada — KAYTRAMINÉ
    Featured Songs: "Who He Iz," "Westside," "Ugh Ugh," "K&A"
    2. Kesha — Gag Order
    Featured Songs: "Only Love Can Save Us Now," "Fine Line," "Peace & Quiet," "Living in My Head"
    3. Paul Simon — Seven Psalms
    4. Hannah Jadagu — Aperture
    Featured Songs: "What You Did," "Admit It," "Warning Sign"
    5. Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres & Conor Hanick — Reflections
    Featured Songs: "Reflexion," "Ekstasis," "Mnemosyne"
    Lightning Round:
    Alex Lahey — The Answer is Always Yes
    Brandy Clark — Brandy Clark
    Sir Chloe — I Am The Dog
    Summer Walker — CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE
    Other notable releases for May 19:
    Califone — villagers
    Dave Matthews Band — Walk Around the Moon
    Def Leppard — Drastic Symphonies
    Graham Nash — Now
    Jealous of the Birds — Hinterland
    Juanes — Vida Cotidiana
    Mandy, Indiana — I've Seen A Way
    Mega Bog — End of Everything
    The Milk Carton Kids — I Only See the Moon
    Moor Mother — Jazz Codes (Deluxe Version)
    Pony — Velveteen
    Robert Ellis — Yesterday's News
    Salami Rose Joe Louis — Akousmatikous
    Tanlines — The Big Mess
    Temps — PARTY GATOR PURGATORY
    Tinariwen — Amatssou
    Yes — Mirror to the Sky
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    Rico Nasty, the 'strong Black woman' trope and how you get your power back May 18, 2023

    Rico Nasty's music creates a haven for heavy emotions. And in a world that paints Black girls showing any emotion as too much, having a place to release anger and anxiety is essential. But when Rico joined the 2021 Playboi Carti tour, his fans harassed her repeatedly and that safety was stripped away. On this episode of Louder Than A Riot, we talk with Rico about keeping a brave face, hear from a fan who was there in the crowd, and ask: When the outlet for your anger is shut down, how do you get your power back?
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    In conversation: Karol G on her life as a 'happy heartbreak girl' May 17, 2023

    While coming up with the concept for her new album Mañana Será Bonito, Colombian superstar Karol G had an epiphany that would change her life: what if she was just more herself? Alt.Latino host Anamaria Sayre sits down with global phenom Karol G to chat about the singer's latest evolution.
    Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Robin Hilton. Our editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    New Mix: Fred again.. and Brian Eno, Youth Lagoon, dodie, more May 16, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Fred again.. and Brian Eno, the return of Youth Lagoon, the dub ensemble African Head Charge and more.
    Featured Songs And Artists:
    1. Youth Lagoon: "The Sling," from Heaven Is a Junkyard
    2. This Is The Kit: "More Change," from Careful of Your Keepers
    3. dodie: "Special Girl," from dodie (Live at NPR's Tiny Desk) - EP
    4. African Head Charge: "Microdosing," from A Trip to Bolgatanga
    5. Brian Eno & Fred again..: "Come On Home," from Secret Life
    6. Grandbrothers: "Adrift," from Late Reflections
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 12 May 12, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include debuts from singer Madison McFerrin, the U.K. electronic duo Overmono, deep grooves from Rahill, Céline Dion, Belinda Carlisle and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Overmono — Good Lies
    Featured Songs: "Good Lies," "Is U," "Skulled"
    2. Madison McFerrin — I Hope You Can Forgive Me
    Featured Songs: "Fleeting Melodies," "Utah," "God Herself," "Run"
    3. Belinda Carlisle — Kismet
    Featured Songs: "Sanity," "If U Go"
    4. Rahill — Flowers At Your Feet
    Featured Songs: "Fables (feat. Beck)," "I Smile for E," "Tell Me," "Gone Astray," "Ode to Dad"
    5. Céline Dion — Love Again (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
    Featured Songs: "Love Again (from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)," "Love of My Life," "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
    Lightning Round:
    Aespa — MY WORLD - The 3rd Mini Album - EP
    BOKANI DYER — RADIO SECHABA
    RP Boo — Legacy Volume 2
    Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya — Orbweaving
    Other notable releases for May 12:
    Alison Goldfrapp — The Love Invention
    BC Camplight — The Last Rotation of Earth
    Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer — As We Speak (feat. Rakesh Chaurasia)
    Bruce Cockburn — O Sun O Moon
    Daisies — Great Big Open Sky
    Eluvium — (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality
    The Jonas Brothers — The Album
    Moby — Resound NYC
    Sexmob — The Hard Way
    Various — KPOP (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
    War — The Remixes
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    How Saucy Santana pushes back against stale standards in hip-hop May 11, 2023

    On this episode of Louder Than A Riot, we talk with Saucy Santana, a viral TikTok rapper who isn't shy about rocking a beat face, trimmed beard, acrylic nails and booty shorts, all of which have become his calling card. But in an industry that values marketability and reinforces masculinity to a toxic level, how can femme-presenting gay men sidestep from being considered viral jokes to become undeniable stars?
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    New Mix: Rufus Wainwright, PJ Harvey, Rhiannon Giddens, more May 09, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a new one from PJ Harvey ahead of her first studio album in seven years, a Neil Young cover by Rufus Wainwright and more.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Rhiannon Giddens: "You're the One," from You're the One
    2. Rufus Wainwright: "Harvest," from Folkocracy
    3. Hand Habits: "Private Life," from Sugar the Bruise
    4. PJ Harvey: "A Child's Question, August," from I Inside the Old Year Dying
    5. Wila Frank: "Tonight," from Black Cloud
    6. Strange Ranger: "She's On Fire," from Pure Music

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 5 May 05, 2023

    The best albums out this week include the nostalgia-fueled, future-looking Soul,PRESENT from Q, a staggering collaboration between billy woods and Kenny Segal, yMusic's self-titled album and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Q — Soul,PRESENT
    Featured Songs: "WELCOME TO THE SOUL, PRESENT," "TODAY," "STEREO DRIVER," "LOVE"
    2. Emily King — Special Occasion
    Featured Songs: "Medal," "Who Wants My Love," "This Year"
    3. Artemis — In Real Time
    Featured Songs: "Empress Afternoon," "Penelope," "Timber," "Whirlwind"
    4. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal — Maps
    Featured Songs: "Soft Landing," "Facetime (feat. Samuel Herring)," "Waiting Around (feat. Aesop Rock)," "Soundcheck (feat. Quelle Chris)"
    5. yMusic — YMUSIC
    Featured Songs: "Three Elephants," "The Wolf"
    Lightning Round:
    Atmosphere — So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously
    Durand Jones — Wait Til I Get Over
    Magos Herreras — Aire
    Roomful of Teeth — Rough Magic
    Other notable releases for May 5:
    The Album Leaf — Future Falling
    Armani White — The Road to Casablanco.
    Bailen — Tired Hearts
    Cian Nugent — She Brings Me Back to the Land of the Living
    Conway the Machine — Won't He Do It
    David Wax Museum — You Must Change Your Life
    Drain — Living Proof
    Ed Sheeran — - [Subtract]
    Gaby Moreno — X Mí (Vol. 1)
    Immaterial Possession — Mercy of the Crane Folk
    Onyx — Blood On Da X
    Rodney Crowell — The Chicago Sessions
    Rudy Royston — DAY
    Sam Sweeney & Louis Campbell — Shapes
    SBTRKT — The Rat Road
    Smashing Pumpkins — Atum
    SQÜRL — Silver Haze

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    iLoveMakonnen and hip-hop's troubled relationship with masculinity May 04, 2023

    How has hip-hop affected perceptions of Black masculinity? We unpack that question through the story of iLoveMakonnen, a rapper who has navigated different realms of masculinity his entire life, and faced backlash from the industry for being unapologetically himself.
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    New Mix: Balmorhea, Hayden Pedigo, Julie Christmas, more May 02, 2023

    NPR Music's Lars Gotrich joins All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen to share his favorite new sonic adventures in the loud and weird, including Bodywash, the Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective and more.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Julie Christmas: "Not Enough" (single)
    2. Bodywash: "Perfect Blue," from I Held The Shape While I Could
    3. Rắn Cạp Đuôi: "What Cherubs," from *1
    4. Hayden Pedigo: "Elsewhere," from The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored
    5. Balmorhea: "Step Step Step," from Pendant World
    6. The Aaltos: "Känner du en vän," from GRAMMOFON - MISSIONEN

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 28 Apr 28, 2023

    The singer and rapper Labrinth, beloved for his score to the HBO show Euphoria, drops his latest album this week, along with new ones from Jessie Ware, Smokey Robinson, Joy Oladokun and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Labrinth — Ends & Begins
    Featured Songs: "Kill For Your Love," "Everything," "Power Couple"
    2. Jessie Ware — That! Feels Good!
    Featured Songs: "Freak Me Now," "Beautiful People"
    3. Joy Oladokun — Proof of Life
    Featured Songs: "Spotlight (available only on CD and vinyl)," "Changes," "Taking Things For Granted," "We're All Gonna Die"
    4. Baby Rose — Through And Through
    Featured Songs: "Fight Club (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow)," "Stop the Bleeding," "I Won't Tell (feat. Smino)"
    5. Smokey Robinson — Gasms
    Featured Songs: "How You Make Me Feel," "Beside You," "Gasms"
    Lightning Round:
    Dreamer Isioma — Princess Forever
    Indigo De Souza — All of This Will End
    The National — First Two Pages of Frankenstein
    Tony Shhnow — Love Streak
    Other notable releases for April 28:
    Arturo O'Farrill — Legacies
    Avalon Emerson — & the Charm
    BebeRexha — Bebe
    Diplo — Thomas Wesley: Chapter 2, Swamp Savant
    Great Lake Swimmers — Uncertain Country
    JFDR — Museum
    Jim Legxacy — homeless n**** pop music
    Josh Ritter — Spectral Lines
    Joseph — The Sun
    Neil Gaiman & Fourplay String Quartet — Signs of Life
    New Breed Brass Band — Made in New Orleans
    Peach PRC — Manic Dream Pixie
    Rickie Lee Jones — Pieces Of Treasure
    Skinny Pelembe — Hardly the Same Snake
    Taj Mahal — Savoy
    Y La Bamba — Lucha
    YUNGMORPHEUS — From Whence It Came
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    Kim Osorio, 'The Source' and hip-hop's overdue reckoning with misogynoir Apr 27, 2023

    In this episode of Louder Than A Riot, we ask what it means to speak up in a culture where it's always been safer to keep quiet. In 2006, Kim Osorio, then editor-in-chief of The Source, sued the magazine and its owners for workplace sexual harassment. Nearly two decades later, hip-hop still has not had a true reckoning around sexual misconduct. The Louder team talks with former Source writers who take us behind the scenes at the hip-hop bible and the circumstances that led to the suit. Activist Tarana Burke, creator of "Me Too," also reflects on how this case could have put hip-hop ahead of the curve on reckoning with misogynoir.
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    Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Bad Bunny, Grupo Frontera, Becky G and more Apr 26, 2023

    This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite music from the last few months, kicking things off with a surprising collab from Bad Bunny and regional Mexican group Grupo Frontera. Plus, new music from Becky G, Gaby Moreno, Esteman and more.
    This episode of 'Alt.Latino' was produced by Robin Hilton. Our editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistants are Jerusalem Truth and Sofia Seidel and our intern is Pilar Galván. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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    New Mix: Cowboy Junkies, Michael Stipe, Wallice, more Apr 25, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Tiny Desk contest winner Gaelynn Lea and Michael Stipe, the LA-based singer known as Wallice and more.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Michael Stipe (feat. Gaelynn Lea): "Give Me A Hand," from EarthPercent x Earth Day '23 Compilation Album
    2. Abraham Alexander (feat. Mavis Staples): "Déjà Vu," from SEA/SONS
    3. Bees in a Bottle: "Wet Widow," from The Sun Left and Took The Moon With It
    4. Wallice: "Best Friend," from Mr Big Shot
    5. Cowboy Junkies: "What I Lost," from Such Ferocious Beauty
    6. Angelo De Augustine: "Another Universe," from Toil and Trouble

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 21 Apr 21, 2023

    The debut studio album from Agust D (Suga) of BTS is out this week, along with new ones from Everything But the Girl, the rapper and producer Alfa Mist, Rodrigo y Gabriela and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Everything But the Girl — Fuse
    Featured Songs: "Nothing Left to Lose," "When You Mess Up"
    2. Alfa Mist — Variables
    Featured Songs: "Borderline," "Foreword," "Aged Eyes"
    3. Agust D — D-Day
    Featured Songs: "Haegum," "D-Day"
    4. Rodrigo y Gabriela — In Between Thoughts... A New World
    Featured Songs: "True Nature," "The Ride of the Mind," "The Eye That Catches The Dream"
    5. Easy Star All-Stars — Ziggy Stardub
    Featured Songs: "Ziggy Stardust (feat. The Skints)," "Hang On To Yourself (feat. Fishbone and JohnnyGo Figure)"
    Lightning Round Picks:
    Lael Neale — Star Eaters
    St. Paul & The Broken Bones — Angels in Science Fiction
    Worldtown SoundSystem — House of Love
    Zombie Juice — Love Without Conditions
    Other notable releases for April 21:
    Cinder Well — Cadence
    Esther Rose — Safe To Run
    The Heavy — AMEN
    Hunter Hayes — Red Sky
    Pearl & The Oysters — Coast 2 Coast
    The Smashing Pumpkins — Atum
    Tïesto — DRIVE
    YoungBoy Never Broke Again — Don't Try This At Home
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    In conversation: Girl Ultra on Mexico City's 'haunted' energy Apr 19, 2023

    Across her evolving discography, which includes everything from R&B ballads to danceable electronic beats, Girl Ultra has solidified her approach to deep, dark songs of love and heartbreak. In this episode of Alt.Latino, host Anamaria Sayre sits down with the up-and-coming Mexico City singer to talk lost loves, why the city is "haunted" and how she copes with a nostalgic heart.
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    New Mix: Indigo De Souza, Speedy Ortiz, more Apr 18, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music's Marissa Lorusso and Hazel Cills share their favorite new music of the week, including the first new Speedy Ortiz song in five years.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Indigo De Souza: "You Can Be Mean," from All of This Will End
    2. Peter One: "Cherie Vico," from Come Back to Me
    3. Speedy Ortiz: "Scabs" (Single)
    4. Bully: "Days Move Slow," from Lucky For You
    5. Charlotte Cornfield: "Cut and Dry," from Could Have Done Anything
    6. Laura Wolf: "Calligraphy and Calculations," from Shelf Life
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 14 Apr 14, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Black Thought from The Roots, the quietly powerful return of Feist and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. El Michels Affair & Black Thought — Glorious Game
    2. Feist — Multitudes
    3. Abraham Alexander — SEA/SONS
    4. Petite Noir — MotherFather
    5. Kara Jackson — Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Lightning Round:
    Dinner Party — Enigmatic Society
    GoGo Penguin — Everything Is Going to Be OK
    Natalie Merchant — Keep Your Courage
    The Tallest Man on Earth — Henry St.
    Fenne Lily — Big Picture
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 7 Apr 07, 2023

    Our favorite new releases for April 7, 2023, include:
    1. Daniel Caesar — Never Enough
    2. Wednesday — Rat Saw God
    3. Fly Anakin — Skinemaxxx (Side A)
    4. Yaeji — With a Hammer

    5. Brandee Younger — Brand New Life
    Lightning Round:
    Walter Smith III — return to casual
    Shame Gang — Better Late Than Never
    Braid — Frame & Canvas (25th Anniversary Edition)
    Overcoats — Winner
    Daughter — Stereo Mind Game
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    How Trina flipped the script on stereotypes of Black women in rap Apr 06, 2023

    How did the "bad bitch" replace the "ride or die chick" in hip hop? In this episode of Louder Than A Riot we talk to the original baddest herself, Trina, about how her career flipped the script on dusty old stereotypes of Black women in rap, and left men down bad. We also sit down with Trick Daddy, the man that put her on, to hear how he feels to see her shining; and check in with Latto, a rapper carrying the torch that Trina set aflame 25 years ago.
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    New Mix: Zoon, Shirley Collins, Orchestra Gold, Pry, more Apr 04, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music's Lars Gotrich share their favorite new music of the week, including the African psych-rock group Orchestra Gold, shoegaze from Zoon and more.
    Featured Artists And Songs:
    1. Jeremy Kiran Fernandes: "Sun and Rain," from Inside the Harmonic Prism
    2. Orchestra Gold: "Segou Heat," from Medicine
    3. Pry: "Chasing Ambulance," from The Party's Over
    4. Shirley Collins: "High and Away," from Archangel Hill
    5. Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru: "Jerusalem," from Jerusalem
    6. Zoon: "Gaagige," from Bekka Ma'iingan

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 31 Mar 31, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week include Chlöe's In Pieces, the debut full-length from boygenius, South African singer Nakhane's Bastard Jargon and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Chlöe — In Pieces
    Featured songs: "Told Ya (feat. Missy Elliott)," "Body Do," "Cheatback," "Pray It Away"
    2. B. Cool-Aid — Leather Blvd.
    Featured songs: "ChalkRoundIt (Talk abt it) (feat. Ladybug Mecca)," "So Soft Salon (feat. DJ Harrison, Demae, Nita Darling & Funky Chunky)," "Wassup (feat. Devin Morrison, Pher & MoRuf)"
    3. Nakhane — Bastard Jargon
    Featured songs: "The Caring," "Tell Me Your Politik (feat. Moonchild Sanelly & Nile Rodgers)"
    4. boygenius — the record
    Featured Songs: "Satanist," "Not Strong Enough," "Revolution 0," "We're In Love"
    5. Baaba Maal — Being
    Featured songs: "Boboyillo (feat. Rougi)," "Mbeda Wella (feat. Paco Lenol)," "Casamance Nights"
    Lightning Round:
    NOIA - Gisela
    The New Pornographers — Continue As Guest
    Pursuit Grooves — 100 Seams
    Tyler, The Creator — Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale
    Other notable releases for March 31:
    Alberta Cross — Sinking Ships
    Barrie — 5K
    Buzzy Lee — Internal Affairs
    City and Colour — The Love Still Held Me Near
    Damien Jurado — Sometimes You Hurt the Ones You Hate
    Deerhoof — Miracle-Level
    The Hold Steady — The Price Of Progress
    Larry June & The Alchemist: The Great Escape
    LIES — Lies
    Two Shell — Lil Spirits
    Wild Child — End of the World
    William Tyler & The Impossible Truth — Secret Stratosphere
    The Zombies — Different Game
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    Beauty is in the eye of the male gaze: DreamDoll, Baby Tate and Doechii Mar 30, 2023

    In our latest episode of Louder Than A Riot we look at how the male gaze looms over hip-hop. Those under its watchful eye feel objectified or shamed if they don't give it what it wants to see. We share the stories of three artists who are pushing back on the male gaze in their personal relationships, social interactions and even industry-wide.
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    In conversation: How Camilo Lara is Mexico's musical 'double agent' Mar 29, 2023

    Anamaria Sayre, host of NPR's Alt.Latino, sits down with world-building producer and Mexican Institute of Sound frontman Camilo Lara to talk about using his fearless intuition to help artists find their voice in the burgeoning hub of Latin music.
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    New Mix: Ólafur Arnalds and Ella McRobb, Protomartyr, The Antlers, more Mar 28, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including two surprising and wonderful collaborations.
    Featured Songs And Artists:
    1. Ólafur Arnalds (feat. Ella McRobb): "and we'll leave it there..." (Single)
    2. The Antlers: "I Was Not There" (Single)
    3. Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani: "Ta Nyé," from Les Égar​é​s
    4. Lauren Early: "Good Girl Bad Boy," from Don't Take My Dream Away
    5. Protomartyr: "Make Way," from Formal Growth In The Desert
    6. Faten Kanaan: "Ebla," from Afterpoem

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    How Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily conjured Love In Exile Mar 27, 2023

    Contributor Nate Chinen interviews the three musicians behind the new improvisational supergroup Love In Exile about their new album, the mysteries of how songs emerge from improvisation and most crucially, how the music they create is an expression of how they listen to each other.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 24 Mar 24, 2023

    The Atlanta rapper and singer 6LACK, Lana Del Rey, R&B singer Yaya Bey, the veteran rock group Depeche Mode and more are among the artists dropping our picks for the best new albums out this week.
    Featured Albums:
    1. 6LACK — Since I Have A Lover
    Featured Songs: "Inwood Hill Park," "Cold Feet," "Talkback," "Chasing Feeling"
    2. Lana Del Rey — Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
    Featured Songs: "Peppers (feat. Tommy Genesis)," "Jon Batiste Interlude," "Margaret (feat. Bleachers)," "Judah Smith Interlude," "A&W"
    3. Yaya Bey — Exodus the North Star
    Featured Songs: "when saturn returns," "exodus the north star"
    4. Lankum — False Lankum
    Featured Songs: "Clear Away in the Morning," "Fugue III," "Lord Abore and Mary Flynn"
    5. Depeche Mode — Memento Mori
    Featured Songs: "My Cosmos Is Mine," "Always You," "People Are Good," "My Favourite Stranger"
    Lightning Round:
    Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily — Love in Exile
    Benny Sings — Young Hearts
    Caroline Rose — The Art of Forgetting
    Fall Out Boy — So Much (For) Stardust
    Kele — The Flames, Pt. 2
    Lemar — Page In My Heart
    Pink Floyd — The Dark Side of the Moon (50th Anniversary)
    Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro — RR
    Sophie B Hawkins — Free Myself
    Other notable releases for March 24:
    03 Greedo — Halfway There
    Babymetal — The Other One
    The HIRS Collective — We're Still Here
    Jimin — FACE
    Kate Davis — Fish Bowl
    Meg Myers — TZIA
    Nickel Creek — Celebrants
    Purling Hiss — Drag on Girard
    Spectacular Diagnostics — Raw Lessons
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    The overlooked legacy of Sha-Rock, hip-hop's first female MC Mar 23, 2023

    In our latest episode of Louder Than A Riot we break down legacy: who gets to leave one in hip-hop and who gets left out. Decades before hip-hop's current renaissance of women rappers, there was MC Sha-Rock. Despite her influence on future generations, her contribution to the craft of hip-hop is not widely known.
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    New Mix: Kara Jackson, Sofia Kourtesis, Ratboys and more Mar 21, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen is joined by NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Marissa Lorusso to share their favorite new tracks of the week.
    Featured Songs And Artists:
    1. Kara Jackson: "pawnshop," from Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    2. feeble little horse: "Tin Man," from Girl with Fish
    3. MIIRRORS: "Sinistry," from Motion And Picture
    4. Savannah Conley: "More Than Fine," from Playing the Part of You Is Me
    5. Sofia Kourtesis: "Madres," (Single)
    6. Ratboys: "Black Earth, WI," (Single)
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 17 Mar 17, 2023

    Our shortlist of the week's best new releases includes an incredible collection of cover songs from the rapper T-Pain, an EP from Hozier, labyrinthine surprises from Princess Nokia and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. T-Pain — On Top of the Covers
    Featured Songs: "War Pigs," "Tennessee Whiskey," "Don't Stop Believin'," "A Change Is Gonna Come"
    2. Hozier — Eat Your Young
    Featured Songs: "Eat Your Young," "All Things End," "Through Me (The Flood)"
    3. Princess Nokia — i love you but this is goodbye
    Featured Songs: "The Fool," "Happy," "Closure"
    4. 100 gecs — 10,000 gecs
    Featured Songs: "Dumbest Girl Alive," "Frog On The Floor," "Billy Knows Jamie"
    5. Yves Tumor — Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Featured Songs: "Echolalia," "Meteora Blues," "Heaven Surrounds Us Like A Hood"
    Lightning Round:
    Genevieve Artadi — Forever Forever
    Niklas Paschburg — Panta Rhei
    So!YoON! — Episode1: Love
    Unknown Mortal Orchestra — V
    Other notable releases for March 17:
    All Time Low — Tell Me I'm Alive
    The Band of Heathens — Simple Things
    FIDLAR — That's Life
    Gideon — More Power, More Pain
    Moderat — Even More D4ta
    Tei Shi — Badd Premonition
    U2 — Songs of Surrender
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    Megan Thee Stallion, Tory Lanez and the impact of misogynoir on rap Mar 16, 2023

    In our season two debut of Louder Than A Riot, we look at how the Tory Lanez trial sparked a real divide in hip-hop and stoked the coals on a 50-year battle for Black women to be heard. In this episode, we take you into Megan Thee Stallion's testimony to unpack the impact of misogynoir on rap.
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    In conversation: Why Mexican pop icon Julieta Venegas doesn't call herself a pioneer Mar 15, 2023

    Anamaria Sayre from NPR Music's Alt.Latino sits down with Mexican pop icon Julieta Venegas to discuss her role as a trailblazing female vocalist and mom to a daughter with impeccably cool music taste.
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    How does De La Soul sound in the streaming era? Mar 14, 2023

    Author and professor Oliver Wang and writer Matthew Ritchie join NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce to talk through one of the most storied catalogs in hip-hop history, now available online for the first time.
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    Coming Thursday: Louder Than A Riot Season 2 Mar 13, 2023

    Hear a preview from our upcoming season two of Louder Than A Riot, NPR Music's deep dive on the collision of rhyme and punishment in America.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 10 Mar 10, 2023

    Miley Cyrus' insanely anticipated Endless Summer Vacation is finally here, along with new music from Fever Ray, The War and Treaty, Meet Me @ The Altar and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Miley Cyrus — Endless Summer Vacation
    Featured Song: "Flowers"
    2. The War and Treaty — Lover's Game
    Featured Songs: "Ain't No Harmin' Me," "Yesterday's Burn," "Up Yonder"
    3. Fever Ray — Radical Romantics
    Featured Songs: "Shiver," "Carbon Dioxide," "Kandy"
    4. Meet Me @ The Altar — Past // Present // Future
    Featured Songs: "T.M.I," "Say It (To My Face)"
    5. Jane Bunnett and Maqueque — Playing With Fire
    Featured Songs: "Tempus Fugit," "Human Race"
    Lightning Round:
    King Khan — The Nature of Things
    Lonnie Holley — Oh Me Oh My
    Nia Archives — Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall
    Shalom — Sublimation
    Other notable releases for March 10:
    Ali Farka Touré — Voyageur
    Death Cab For Cutie — Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic)
    EBK Young Joc — Hotboiiz:4L
    Manchester Orchestra — The Valley of Vision
    Rarelyalways — WORK
    Frankie Rose — Love as Projection
    H. Hawkline — Milk for Flowers
    Sleaford Mods — UK GRIM

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    New Mix: Shame, Amber Arcades, Kimi Djabaté, more Mar 07, 2023

    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week including, songs from Shame, Amber Arcades, Kimi Djabaté and more.
    Featured Songs and Artists:
    1. Shame, "Adderall," from Food For Worms
    2. H. Hawkline, "Milk For Flowers," from Milk For Flowers
    3. Kimi Djabaté, "Afonhe," from Dindin
    4. Arthur Moon, "Ghost Ranch," from Chaos! Chaos! Chaos! Side B
    5. Amber Arcades, "Contain," from Barefoot on Diamond Road 6. Water From Your Eyes, "Barley," from Everyone's Crushed
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 3 Mar 03, 2023

    The best albums out this week include Kali Uchis' Red Moon in Venus, a self-titled joint from the Jamaican American artist Masego, singer and guitarist Jen Cloher's ode to the mess of life and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Kali Uchis — Red Moon in Venus
    Featured Songs: "Hasta Cuando," "Como Te Quiero Yo," "Worth the Wait (feat. Omar Apollo)"
    2. Masego — MASEGO
    Featured Songs: "What You Wanna Try," "Afraid of Water," "Black Anime"
    3. Yazmin Lacey — Voice Notes
    Featured Songs: "Legacy," "Where Did You Go?"
    4. Jen Cloher -- I Am the River, The River is Me
    Featured Songs: "My Witch," "Mana Takatāpui," "The Wild," "Being Human"
    5. Chiiild — Better Luck in the Next Life
    Featured Songs: "(Running Out Of) Hallelujahs," "Good For Now (feat. Lucky Daye)"
    Lightning Round:
    Adi Oasis — Lotus Glow
    Hello Mary — Hello Mary
    Spektral Quartet & Julia Holter — Behind the Wallpaper
    Other notable releases for March 3:

    Kate NV — WOW
    Macklemore — BEN
    Object of Affection — Field of Appearances
    Radio Supernova — Paratiisi
    William Basinski — The Clocktower at the Beach
    Xiu Xiu — Ignore Grief
    Zulu — A New Tomororw

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    Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Karol G, Y La Bamba, The Latin Dead and more Mar 01, 2023

    Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras, hosts of NPR's Alt.Latino, round up their favorite new music from the last few months.
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    New Mix: Anna B Savage, Daisies, Neil Gaiman & FourPlay String Quartet, more Feb 28, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including songs from Anna B Savage, Daisies, Pest Control, Neil Gaiman & FourPlay String Quartet and more.
    Featured Songs And Artist:
    1. Daisies: "Is It Any Wonder," from Great Big Open Sky
    2. Anna B Savage: "The Ghost," from inFLUX
    3. Pest Control: "Total Distraction," from Don't Test The Pest
    4. Neil Gaiman & FourPlay String Quartet: "In Transit," from Signs of Life
    5. Mohamad Zatari Trio: "Black Tea," from Istehlal
    6. Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily: "To Remain/To Return," from Love In Exile
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    How the score for 'All Quiet on the Western Front' made a familiar tale surprising Feb 27, 2023

    Composer Volker Bertelmann explains why he wanted to "destroy the film" with his score, how he used a centuries-old instrument for the cause and what it meant as a German to dive deep into this story.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 24 Feb 24, 2023

    The best new albums out this week include Cracker Island from Gorillaz, the 30th anniversary of Naughty By Nature's 19 Naughty III, Gracie Abrams' Good Riddance and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Gorillaz — Cracker Island
    Featured Songs: "Oil (feat. Stevie Nicks)," "Tormernta (feat. Bad Bunny)," "Silent Running (feat. Adeleye Omotayo)"
    2. Naughty By Nature — 19 Naughty III - 30th Anniversary
    Featured Songs: "Hip Hop Hooray," "Daddy Was A Street Corner," "It's On (Beatnuts Remix)"
    3. quinnie — flounder
    Featured Songs: "emblem," "touch tank," "man"
    4. Gracie Abrams — Good Riddance
    Featured Songs: "Where do we go now?," "I should hate you"
    5. Christian McBride's New Jawn — Prime
    Featured Songs: "East Broadway Rundown," "Head Bedlam"
    Lightning Round:
    Buster Williams — Unalome
    Kate Fagan — I Don't Want to Be Too Cool [Expanded Ed.]
    Laraaji — Segue to Infinity
    Neutral Milk Hotel — The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel
    Other notable releases for Feb. 24:
    Adam Lambert — High Drama
    Algiers — Shook
    The Church — The Hypnogogue
    Dierks Bentley — Gravel & Gold
    Gruff Rhys — The Almond and the Seahorse
    Iris DeMent — Workin' on a World
    Logic — College Park
    Miss Grit — Follow the Cyborg
    Philip Selway — Strange Dance
    Shame — Food for Worms
    Russ Millions — One Of A Kind
    The Strokes — Singles, Vol. 1
    U.S. Girls — Bless This Mess
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    New Mix: Lana Del Rey, Sidney Gish, beabadoobee, more Feb 21, 2023

    NPR Music's Marissa Lorusso and Hazel Cills join Bob Boilen to share their favorite new tracks, including an epic new song from Lana Del Rey and a love song from beabadoobee.
    Featured Songs And Artists:
    1. Lana Del Rey: "A&W," from Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
    2. Sidney Gish: "Filming School" (Single)
    3. Seán Barna, "Benjamin Whishaw Smiled," from An Evening at Macri Park
    4. Caroline Rose, "The Doldrums," from The Art of Forgetting
    5. Avalon Emerson, "Sandrail Silhouette" (Single)
    6. beabadoobee, "Glue Song" (Single)
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    How Son Lux scored 'Everything Everywhere All At Once' Feb 20, 2023

    Son Lux frontman Ryan Lott reveals how the band was able to keep pace with the frenetic, shape-shifting storytelling of Everything Everywhere All At Once,without missing its ultimate beat: love.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 17 Feb 17, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Caroline Polachek, UK producer, rapper and filmmaker Wesley Joseph, P!NK, the Boston rock group Pile and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Caroline Polachek — Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
    Featured Songs: "Pretty In Possible," "Fly To You (feat. Grimes and Dido)"
    2. Wesley Joseph — GLOW
    Featured Songs: "COLD SUMMER," "SUGAR DRIVE (feat. Dean)"
    3. Pile — All Fiction
    Featured Songs: "Loops," "Poisons," "Blood," "Gardening Hours"
    4. P!NK — TRUSTFALL
    Featured Songs: "TRUSTFALL," "Just Say I'm Sorry (feat. Chris Stapleton)," "Kids In Love (feat. First Aid Kit)," "When I Get There"
    5. Tianna Esperanza — Terror
    Featured Songs: "Terror," "Lewis," "Princess Slit and the Raincoat Prince," "Granada"
    Lightning Round:
    crushed — extra life
    Lisel — Patterns For Auto-tuned Voices and Delay
    Jaimee Harris — Boomerang Town
    Skrillex — Quest for Fire
    Other notable releases for Feb. 17:
    @ — Mind Palace Music
    Anna B Savage — in|FLUX
    Avey Tare — 7s
    Free Range — Practice
    Leon Lee Dorsey & Mike Clark — Cantaloupe Island
    Lowly — Keep Up The Good Work
    Ron Sexsmith — The Vivian Line
    Screaming Females — Desire Pathway
    Simona Premazzi — Wave In Gravity
    Various Artists — Transmissions from Total Refreshment Centre
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    In conversation: How the U.S.-Mexico border shaped Adrian Quesada's fluid sound Feb 15, 2023

    Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras from NPR's Alt.Latino sit down with prolific producer and creator Adrian Quesada to discuss his experimental approach to border-driven, sonic expression.
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    New Mix: Fantastic Negrito, Death Cab For Cutie, Indigo De Souza, more Feb 14, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including re-imagined acoustic music from Fantastic Negrito, new Death Cab for Cutie and more.
    Featured Songs And Artist:
    1. Miya Folick: "Get Out Of My House," from Roach
    2. Fantastic Negrito: "Drifting Away," from Grandfather Courage
    3. Death Cab for Cutie: "The Plan," from Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic)
    4. Cinder Well: "Two Heads, Grey Mare," from Cadence
    5. Indigo De Souza: "Younger & Dumber," from All of This Will End
    6. Samana: "Two Wrongs," (Single)

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 10 Feb 10, 2023

    The best albums out this week include Paramore's first new full-length in nearly six years, mind-blowing sonic explorations from Kelela and Liv.e, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Yo La Tengo and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Paramore — This Is Why
    Featured Songs: "You First," "C'est Comme Ca," "This Is Why"
    2. Liv.e — Girl in the Half Pearl
    Featured Songs: "Ghost," "A Slumber Party?," "Our Father," "Snowing!"
    3. Kelela — Raven
    Featured Songs: "On the Run," "Contact," "Happy Ending"
    4. Black Belt Eagle Scout — The Land, The Water, The Sky
    Featured Songs: "Fancy Dance," "Blue," "My Blood Runs Through This Land"
    5. Yo La Tengo — This Stupid World
    Featured Songs: "This Stupid World," "Sinatra Drive Breakdown"
    Lightning Round:
    Andy Shauf — Norm
    Brainorchestra — It Means A Lot
    KING VISION ULTRA — SHOOK WORLD
    Pearla — Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming
    Other notable releases for Feb. 10:
    Amber Arcades — Barefoot on Diamond Road
    The Brian Jonestown Massacre — The Future is Your Past
    Lisa O'Neil — All Of This Is Chance
    Tennis — Pollen
    You Me At Six — Truth Decay
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    New Mix: The Tallest Man On Earth, Yo La Tengo, Nanna, more Feb 07, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a reflection on lost youth from The Tallest Man On Earth, the debut solo album from Of Monsters And Men singer Nanna and more.
    Featured Tracks And Artists:
    1. The Tallest Man on Earth: "Every Little Heart," from Henry St.
    2. Fenne Lily: "Lights Light Up" (Single)
    3. Yo La Tengo: "Tonight's Episode," from This Stupid World
    4. Youth in a Roman Field: "It'll Pass," from Get Caught Trying
    5. Nanna: "Godzilla" (Single)
    6. Juni Habel: "Rhythm of the Tides," from Carvings

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 3 Feb 03, 2023

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include RAYE's long-awaited debut, My 21st Century Blues, SYML's stirring The Day My Father Died, the return of Shania Twain and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. SYML — The Day My Father Died
    Featured Songs: "Chariot," "Howling (feat. Lucius)," "Lost Myself (feat. Guy Garvey)," "The Day My Father Died"
    2. RAYE — My 21st Century Blues
    Featured Songs: "The Thrill Is Gone," "Oscar Winning Tears," "Hard Out Here"
    3. Joe Chambers — Dance Kobina
    Featured Songs: "Gazelle Suite," "Caravanserai"
    4. Young Fathers — Heavy Heavy
    Featured Songs: "Geronimo," "I Saw," "Tell Somebody"
    5. Shania Twain — Queen of Me
    Featured Song: "Pretty Liar"
    Lightning Round Picks:
    Epik High — Strawberry
    The Go! Team — Get Up Sequences Part Two
    James Brandon Lewis — Eye of I
    Robert Forster — The Candle and the Flame
    Other notable releases for Feb. 3:
    Ben Wolfe — Unjust
    Best Fern — Earth Then Air
    Fantastic Negrito — Grandfather Courage
    Hamish Hawk — Angel Numbers
    Loscil & Lawrence English — Colours of Air
    M(h)aol — Attachment Style
    The Psychotic Monks — Pink Colour Surgery
    Somebody's Child — Somebody's Child
    Sunny War — Anarchist Gospel
    Tropical F*** Storm — SUBMERSIVE BEHAVIOR
    Various — Ears of the People: Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia
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    In conversation: Cimafunk on the complex African lineage of his music Feb 01, 2023
    Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with Erik Rodríguez of Cimafunk to talk about how he's created his singular sound, the complex African lineage of his music and why his band is his "tribe."
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    New Mix: Jana Horn, Debashish Bhattacharya, Lankum, more Jan 31, 2023

    NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich joins Bob Boilen for a show full of sonic adventures in hopes of stretching your musical boundaries, including three songs that are over eight minutes long.
    Featured Songs and Artists:
    1. Jana Horn: "After All This Time," from The Window is the Dream
    2. Anna Mieke: "Go Away from My Window," from Theatre
    3. Nabalayo: "mtwapa siren," from INSHA
    4. Lankum: "Go Dig My Grave," from False Lankum
    5. PoiL Ueda: "Dan No Ura - Part 1," from PoiL Ueda
    6. Debashish Bhattacharya: "The Sound of the Soul," from The Sound of the Soul
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    Guest DJ Tom Verlaine (2006) Jan 29, 2023

    Tom Verlaine spins everything from Charles Mingus to The Day the Earth Stood Still soundtrack.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Jan. 27 Jan 27, 2023

    The best albums out this week include A Reckoning from Kimbra, Sam Smith's deeply personal and powerful Gloria, jazz saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin's Phoenix and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Kimbra — A Reckoning
    Featured Songs: "la type (feat. Pink Siifu & Tommy Raps)," "save me," "foolish thinking (feat. Ryan Lott)"
    2. Sam Smith — Gloria
    Featured Songs: "Unholy (feat. Kim Petras)," "I'm Not Here To Make Friends," "Love Me More," "Gloria"
    3. Lakecia Benjamin — Phoenix
    Featured Songs: "Amerikkan Skin (feat. Angela Davis)," "Supernova (feat. Wayne Shorter)"
    4. Samia — Honey
    Featured Songs: "Amelia," "Pink Balloon," "Sea Lions," "Breathing Song"
    5. Jonah Yano — Portrait of a Dog
    Featured Songs: "Always," "So Sweet"
    Lightning Round:
    Bob Dylan — Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions 1996-1997 The Bootleg Series Vol. 17
    Joe Henry — All the Eye Can See
    Nite Bjuti — "Mood (Liberation Walk)" (single)
    Popcaan — Great Is He
    Other notable releases for Jan. 27:
    The Arcs — Electrophonic Chronic
    Ava Max — Diamonds & Dancefloors
    Bass Drum of Death — Say I Won't
    Elle King — Come Get Your Wife
    F***** Up — One Day
    Hammock — Love in the Void
    Meg Baird — Furling
    SG Lewis — AudioLust & HigherLove
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    New Mix: boygenius, The National, Baaba Maal, more Jan 24, 2023
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including the return of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus as boygenius, The National and more.
    Featured Songs and Artists:
    1. boygenius: "$20," from the record
    2. The National: "Tropic Morning News," from First Two Pages of Frankenstein
    3. Niklas Paschburg & lùisa: "Darkside of the Hill," from Panta Rhei
    4. Miss Grit: "Lain (phone clone)," from Follow the Cyborg
    5. Baaba Maal: "Agreement," from Being
    6. The Hackles: "Damn the word," from What a beautiful thing I have made

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    In conversation: Fabi Reyna learned to listen to her revolutionary intuition Jan 18, 2023
    Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre sits down with Fabi Reyna of Reyna Tropical to talk about the process of trusting yourself, how music saved her life and moving forward after losing her creative collaborator Sumohair.
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    New Mix: Peter Gabriel, Vagabon, Steady Holiday, more Jan 17, 2023

    New music from Peter Gabriel's first album of all new songs in 20 years. Also, Daughter has their first album of all new songs; it's been seven years for them. Plus, a heavy beat from Vagabon, wisdom from Steady Holiday and more.
    Featured Artists and Songs:
    1. Peter Gabriel: "Panopticom," from i/o
    2. Daughter: "Be On Your Way," from Stereo Mind Game
    3. Vagabon: "Carpenter," (Single)
    4. Steady Holiday: "The Balance," from Newfound Oxygen
    5. Gina Birch: "I Play My Bass Loud," from I Play My Bass Loud
    6. The Trials of Cato: "Aberdaron," from Gog Magog
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Jan. 13 Jan 13, 2023

    The week's best new albums include a genre-spanning masterpiece from singer Margo Price, a tribute to the '80s from Seven Davis Jr., Belle and Sebastian, jazz trumpeter Derrick Gardner and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Margo Price — Strays
    Featured Songs: "Light Me Up," "Time Machine," "Radio," "Anytime You Call"
    2. Seven Davis Jr. — savedbythebell
    Featured Songs: "zero press," "wendy & lisa," "savedbythebell"
    3. poolblood — mole
    Featured Songs: "my little room," "wfy," "beam"
    4. Belle & Sebastian — Late Developers
    Featured Songs: "So In the Moment," "When You're Not With Me," "Late Developers"
    5. Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets — Pan Africa
    Featured Songs: "The Sixth Village," "Djemba Kan," "Highlife Suite"
    Lightning Round:
    Jamee Cornelia — Art School Dropout
    Joesef — Permanent Damage
    Lusillón — Pensando mucho y mal
    Obituary — Dying of Everything
    Whitehorse — I'm Not Crying, You're Crying
    Other notable releases for Jan. 13:
    BabyTron — Bin Reaper 3: New Testament
    Declaime & Madlib — In the Beginning Vol. 3
    Gaz Coombes — Turn the Car Around
    Julia Wolf — Good Thing We Stayed
    Lincoln — Everything Is Wrong
    Skyzoo — The Mind of a Saint
    Stile Antico — The Golden Renaissance: William Byrd
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    New Mix: Kate Davis, Rozi Plain, M(h)aol, Fievel Is Glauque, more Jan 10, 2023

    NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Marissa Lorusso join host Bob Boilen to share their favorite new tracks of the week, including the jagged sounds of Dublin's M(h)aol, former jazz prodigy and singer Kate Davis and more.
    Featured Artists and Songs:
    1. Decisive Pink: "Haffmilch Holiday" (Single)
    2. Artist: "Friendship Is Frequency," from Mind Palace Music
    3. Kate Davis: "Consequences," from Fish Bowl
    4. Fievel Is Glauque: "Days of Pleasure," from Flaming Swords
    5. Rozi Plain: "Help," from Prize
    6. M(h)aol: "THERAPY," from Attachment Styles

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    Peeling back layers of the 'Glass Onion' score Jan 06, 2023

    For Glass Onion, composer Nathan Johnson had to navigate and illuminate the film's conflicting range of emotions. He found endless possibilities within an orchestra.
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    In conversation: The Cuban roots of rock and roll Jan 04, 2023

    Can you hear the cha-cha-cha in The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"? Or the mambo in Ray Charles' "What'd I Say"? This week, our friends at Alt.Latino take a closer look at the Cuban roots of rock and roll.
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    In conversation: The enduring spark of Selena Dec 28, 2022

    Since her death in 1995, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez' legacy has spread far beyond her Tejano music roots. This week, Alt.Latino revisits a classic episode and explores how Selena became a powerful symbol of Latina identity.
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    Viking's Choice 2022: Outer Sounds Around the World Dec 27, 2022

    On this year-end episode, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Bob Boilen around the globe to experience Vietnamese ambient, Chilean speed metal and auto-tune'd Ghanaian gospel music.
    Featured Tracks and Artists:
    • BKO: "Sadiona" from Djine Bora
    • Cheba Wahida: "Jrouli Jrouli" from Jrouli
    • Sơn FM: "Go Into the Mountains" from Points of Light (ST​๐​๐​๗​)
    • Switchblade: "夜に踊る" from Blue Matter
    • Romperayo: "El Borracho" from Así No Se Puede Muchaches
    • La Colonie de Vacances: "L'amour universel" from ECHT
    • No Home: "Emerald Green Mirror" from Young Professional
    • Vórtize: "Mundo Bipolar" from ¡Tienes Que Luchar!
    • Linda Ayupuka: "Yine Faamam" from God Created Everything
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    The All Songs Considered Holiday Cruise Dec 22, 2022

    In 2018, Steve Martin, John Legend, William Shatner and more joined Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton for All Songs Considered's annual holiday extravaganza, which unfolded like a bad high school play.
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    Holiday Mix: A Latin music Christmas Dec 21, 2022

    ¡Felices fiestas y'all! This week, Alt.Latino revisits a classic episode from 2014 to enjoy the music of D.C. Latino choir, Cantigas.
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    Poll Results: Listeners Pick the Best Albums of 2022 Dec 20, 2022

    Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton and Stephen Thompson gather in a studio for the first time in nearly 3 years to count down NPR Music listeners' top 10 albums of 2022.
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    Countdown: The Top 10 Songs of 2022 Dec 15, 2022

    NPR's Ann Powers, Alt.Latino host Anamaria Sayre and contributor (and NPR Music alum) LaTesha Harris join host Robin Hilton to countdown the top 10 songs of 2022, as selected by the NPR Music team, contributors and partner stations.
    See NPR Music's top 100 songs, top 50 albums and more.
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    The best Latin music of 2022 Dec 14, 2022
    Alt.Latino host Anamaria Sayre sits down with Rolling Stone's Julyssa Lopez and NPR Music contributor Stefanie Fernández to talk about (some of) their favorite albums of the year.
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    Countdown: The Top 10 Albums of 2022 Dec 12, 2022

    NPR's Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce join critic Christina Lee and host Robin Hilton to countdown the top 10 albums of 2022, as selected by the NPR Music team, contributors and partner stations.
    See NPR Music's list of the top 50 albums from 2022 and more.
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    In conversation: Why cumbia is the musical backbone of Latin America Dec 07, 2022

    Whether you're from Ushuaia or East Los Angeles, you've likely heard cumbia blaring from a stereo. This week, Alt.Latino revisits a classic episode from 2015 and takes a closer look at the musical backbone of the Americas.
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    Countdown: The Top 10 Rock Albums of 2022 Dec 06, 2022
    All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen joins NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Marissa Lorusso to count down NPR Music's top 10 rock albums of 2022.
    Featured songs and artists:
    10. Kevin Morby: "This Is a Photograph," from This Is a Photograph
    9. Soul Glo: "Jump!! (Or Get Jumped!!!)((by the future))," from Diaspora Problems
    8. Special Interest: "Foul," from Endure
    7. caroline: "Dark blue," from caroline
    6. Hurray for the Riff Raff: "PRECIOUS CARGO," from LIFE ON EARTH
    5. Alvvays: "Pharmacist," from Blue Rev
    4. Wet Leg: "Angelica," from Wet Leg
    3. Nilüfer Yanya: "stabilise," from PAINLESS
    2. Alex G: "No Bitterness," from God Save the Animals
    1. Big Thief: "Spud Infinity," from Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
    Read the ranked list the year's most essential rock music, along with a short list of personal favorites, by NPR Music staff and contributors.
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    In conversation: Linda Ronstadt on embracing her Mexican heritage Nov 30, 2022

    Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with Linda Ronstadt, who recently released her book Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands, to talk about her Mexican heritage, wanting to sing in Spanish earlier in her career and not feeling like the "quintessential American girl."
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    Planet Money Records Vol. 2: The Negotiation Nov 29, 2022

    Our friends at Planet Money are trying something we thought All Songs listeners might find as fascinating as we do: They're trying to start their own record label to release a single song. It's a song about inflation, recorded in 1975... and never released until now.
    (This episode is part two of a series)
    Listen to "Inflation" on     Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, Tidal, Amazon Music & Pandora.
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    How cinematic guitar music reconnected Hermanos Gutiérrez as brothers Nov 23, 2022

    Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez to talk about their musical legacy, sad songs and creating strong familial bonds through music.
    Show notes: You can help us improve Alt.Latino by taking some time to answer questions about the show. Please tell us what you like and how we could improve by going to npr.org/altlatinosurvey.
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    Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson Nov 21, 2022

    Our friends at Planet Money are trying something we thought All Songs listeners might find as fascinating as we do: They're trying to start their own record label to release a single song. It's a song about inflation, recorded in 1975... and never released until now.
    (This episode is part one of a series)
    Listen to "Inflation" on     Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, Tidal, Amazon Music & Pandora.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 18 Nov 18, 2022

    The best albums out this week include rapper Roddy Ricch's emotional Feed Tha Streets III, Weyes Blood's majestic And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow, Honey Dijon's Black Girl Magic and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Roddy Ricch — Feed Tha Streets III
    Featured Songs: "King Size," "Fade Away," "Letter 2 My Son"
    2. Weyes Blood — And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Featured Songs: "It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody," "The Worst Is Done," "God Turn Me Into a Flower," "In Holy Flux"
    3. Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries III
    Featured Songs: "The Night (feat. Alison Goldfrapp)," "Just Wanted To Know (feat. Astrid S)," "The Next Day (feat. Jamie Irrepressible)"
    4. Honey Dijon — Black Girl Magic
    Featured Songs: "Downtown (feat. Annette Brown & Nikki-O)," "Work (feat. Cor.Ece, Dave Giles II & Mike Dunn)," "Love Is A State Of Mind (feat. Ramona Renea)," "Drama (feat. Rimarkable & Dope Earth Alien)"
    5. Cautious Clay — Thin Ice On The Cake
    Featured Songs: "Burning Up Slow," "Camp Anonymous," "Sarah Tonin"
    Lightning Round:
    Daniel Bachman — Almanac Behind
    dumhi — Uncle Miles
    Fousheé — softCORE
    Other notable releases for Nov. 18:
    -(16)- — Into Dust
    Adrian Quesada – Jaguar Sound
    Billy Strings — Me/And/Dad
    Brockhampton — The Family
    Caitlin Rose — CAZIMI
    Icewear Vezzo — Paint the City
    Krill — Alarm No Hris (vinyl reissue)
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse — World Record
    Peggy Lee — Norma Deloris Egstrom From Jamestown, North Dakota (50th Anniv. Ed.)
    Phony Ppl — Euphonyus
    The Wombats — Is This What It Feels Like To Feel Like This?
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    How Silvana Estrada cultivates intimacy and generosity in her live performances Nov 16, 2022

    Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with Silvana Estrada to talk about vulnerability, bringing light into her shows and the lessons her parents have given her.
    Show notes: You can help us improve Alt.Latino by taking some time to answer questions about the show. Please tell us what you like and how we could improve by going to npr.org/altlatinosurvey.
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    New Mix: Radiohead's Philip Selway, Yo La Tengo, more Nov 15, 2022
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a new solo release from Radiohead drummer Philip Selway, a new project with R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry and more.
    Featured Songs and Artists:
    1. Philip Selway: "Check For Signs Of Life," from Strange Dance
    2. Among Authors: "Fears We Hold" (Single)
    3. Lisa O'Neill: "Old Note," from All Of This Is Chance
    4. The Bad Ends: "Thanksgiving 1915," from The Power and The Glory
    5. Yo La Tengo: "Fallout," from This Stupid World
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 11 Nov 11, 2022

    Our picks for the best albums out this week include the Spanish-language remix of Run The Jewels' RTJ4, Bruce Springsteen's tribute to classic soul, the debut from Memphis rapper GloRilla and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Run The Jewels — RTJCU4TRO
    Featured Songs: "JU$T," "santa calamif***"
    2. Bruce Springsteen — Only the Strong Survive
    Featured Songs: "Soul Days," "I Forgot To Be Your Lover," "Turn Back the Hands of Time"
    3. Christine And The Queens (as Redcar) — les adorables étoiles (prologue)
    Featured Songs: "Ma bien aimee bye bye," "My birdman"
    4. GloRilla — Anyways, Life's Great...
    Featured Songs: "Blessed," "F.N.F. (Let's Go)," "PHATNALL"
    5. Bill Frisell — Four
    Featured Songs: "Claude Utley," "Waltz For Hal Wilner"
    Lightning Round:
    claire rousay — a heavenly touch (vinyl reissue)
    Duval Timothy — Meeting with a Judas Tree
    Ernest Hood — Back to the Woodlands
    Morris Day — Last Call
    Other notable releases for Nov. 11:
    Actress — Dummy Corporation
    Ben LaMar Gay — Certain Reveries
    Gold Panda — The Work
    Heather Trost — Desert Flowers
    Homeboy Sandman — Still Champion
    Illogic — The Transition
    Jordana — I'm Doing Well, Thanks For Asking
    Lyrics Born — Vision Board
    Nas — King's Disease III
    Puck — Best Friend
    Sharon Van Etten — We've Been Going About This All Wrong (Deluxe Edition)
    The Sonora Pine — II (vinyl reissue)
    Tyondai Braxton — Telekinesis
    Wizkid — More Love, Less Ego

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    How making original music again helped Natalia Lafourcade grow her 'inner garden' Nov 09, 2022

    Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre of NPR's Alt.Latino sit down with Natalia Lafourcade to talk about interpreting old songs, taking things slow and releasing her first album of original material in seven years.
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    Songs that make you feel good Nov 08, 2022

    In this encore episode from 2011, Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, and All Songs Considered listeners share the songs that lift them up, inspire them to whistle, dance in public and move on from hardship.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 4 Nov 04, 2022

    Our picks for the best albums out this week include a droll, sometimes comical, sometimes graphic debut from the Atlanta duo Coco & Clair Clair, five new and totally different records from SAULT and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Coco & Clair Clair — Sexy
    Featured Songs: "8 AM," "Bad Lil Vibe," "The Hills," "Love Me"
    2. R.A.P. Ferreira — 5 to the Eye with Stars
    Featured Songs: "fighting back," "mythsysizer instinct," "ours," "tennessee farmer jutsu"
    3. Phoenix — Alpha Zulu
    Featured Songs: "Season 2," "Winter Solstice," "Artefact"
    4. Big Joanie — Back Home
    Featured Songs: "In My Arms," "Cactus Tree"
    5. SAULT — AIIR, Earth, Today & Tomorrow, UNTITLED (God), 11
    Featured Songs: "4am," "Heal The World," "Valley of the Ocean," "Together," "Life We Rent But Love Is Rent Free," "Love Is All I Know"
    Lightning Round:
    Connie Constance — Miss Power
    First Aid Kit — Palomino
    Marvin Tate's D-Settlement — Marvin Tate's D-Settlement
    Surya Botofasina — Everyone's Children
    Other notable releases for Nov. 4:
    Ami Dang — The Living World Demands
    Caleb Landry Jones — Gadzooks Vol. 2
    Daniel Avery — Ultra Truth
    Drake— Her Loss
    Tropical Gothclub — Tropical Gothclub
    Ezra Collective — Where I'm Meant To Be
    h. Pruz — again, there
    Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano — Once Around the Room
    Lecrae — Church Clothes 4
    The Lone Bellow — Love Songs For Losers
    Okay Kaya — SAP
    Rayland Baxter — If I Were A Butterfly
    Special Interest — Endure
    Teddy Swims — Sleep Is Exhausting
    The Welcome Wagon — Esther
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    The genre-subverting composer Angélica Negrón on embracing all sides of her identity Nov 02, 2022
    Alt.Latino's Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with Angélica Negrón to talk about the importance of representation, making music with plants and what inspired her to begin composing.
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    The Best Music of October Nov 01, 2022

    Open Mike Eagle confronted the past, Natalia Lafourcade returned to original songwriting, Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson collaborated as Plains, Víkingur Ólafsson intimately played piano and Maral deconstructed an ancestral groove.
    Featured Tracks and Artists:
    1. Open Mike Eagle: "Burner Account" and "For DOOM" from Component System with the Auto Reverse
    2. Natalia Lafourcade: "María la Curandera" from De Todas las Flores
    3. Plains: "Hurricane" and "Abilene" from I Walked With You A Ways
    4. Víkingur Ólafsson: Robert Schumann's Study in Canonic Form, Op. 56, No. 1 and Béla Bartók's 3 Hungarian Folks Songs from Csík, III. 'White Lily' via From Afar
    5. Maral: "Mari's Groove" from Ground Groove
    Our panel's additional recommendations for October:
    • Palm, Nicks and Grazes
    • Loyle Carner, hugo
    • Moin, Paste
    More from NPR Music:
    • Interview: Open Mike Eagle
    • Review: Plains, I Walked With You A Ways
    • Víkingur Ólafsson: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
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    You've never heard The Beatles' 'Revolver' sound like this Oct 31, 2022

    The technology used to remix the 56-year-old album is hard to fathom. But, with the help of producer Giles Martin, Revolver now sounds like a brand new album from a young band still putting out records.
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Oct. 28 Oct 28, 2022

    The best albums out this week include Smino's Luv 4 Rent, Icelandic singer Ásgeir's Time On My Hands, a staggering new work from Benjamin Clementine and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Smino — Luv 4 Rent
    Featured Tracks: "Pro Freak," "Blu Billy," "Pudgy"
    2. Nosaj Thing — Continua
    Featured Tracks: "We Are," "Look Both Ways"
    3. Ásgeir — Time on My Hands
    Featured Tracks: "Time on My Hands," "Borderland," "Limitless"
    4. Benjamin Clementine — And I Have Been
    Featured Tracks: "Residue," "Lovelustreman," "Delighted"
    5. Ghost Funk Orchestra — A New Kind Of Love
    Featured Tracks: "Your Man's No Good," "Quiet Places"
    Lightning Round:
    Cakes da Killa — Svengali
    Fatboi Sharif & Noface — Preaching in Havana
    Field Guide — Field Guide
    Junior Boys — Waiting Game
    Other Notable Releases:
    Babehoven — Light Moving Time
    The Beatles — Revolver (Super Deluxe)
    Dear Nora — human futures
    DIGAWOLF — INI (Spirit)
    Lee Fields — Sentimental Fool
    Martha — Please Don't Take Me Back
    Show Me The Body — Trouble The Water
    Trampled By Turtles — Alpenglow
    Tyshawn Sorey Trio +1 with Greg Osby — The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (Live)
    Yung Gravy - Marvelous
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    Why Carlos Santana's divisive, spiritual 'Caravanserai' wasn't 'career suicide' Oct 27, 2022

    Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre from NPR's Alt.Latino sit down with Carlos Santana to talk about nurturing his spirit, growing as an artist and 50 years of Caravanserai.
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    A Halloween mix: Phoebe Bridgers and Andrew Bird, Sunny War, John Cale, more Oct 26, 2022
    All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Phoebe Bridgers and Andrew Bird, John Cale's first new album in a decade and more.
    Featured Songs and Artists:
    1. Sunny War: "No Reason," from Anarchist Gospel
    2. Andrew Bird & Phoebe Bridgers: "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" (Single)
    3. Seán Barna: "Everyone's a Queen on Halloween" (Single)
    4. John Cale: "STORY OF BLOOD (feat. Weyes Blood)," from MERCY
    5. Weyes Blood: "Grapevine," from And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    6. Micah Frank & Chet Doxas: "Ave Maria (Featuring Mary Lattimore)," from The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Part One

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out Oct. 21 Oct 21, 2022

    The best albums out this week include Taylor Swift's Midnights, powerful meditations on race and identity from U.K. rapper Loyle Carner, the transfixing sounds of singer iLe and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Taylor Swift — Midnights
    Featured Songs: "Lavender Haze," "Vigilante S***," "Karma," "Sweet Nothing"
    2. Loyle Carner — hugo
    Featured Songs: "Hate," "Nobody Knows," "Georgetown"
    3. Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn — Pigments
    Featured Songs: "Cerulean," "Vantablack" "Sandstone"
    4. iLe — Nacarile
    Featured Songs: "Ningún Lugar," "traguito"
    5. Nick Hakim — COMETA
    Featured Songs: "Feeling Myself," "Something," "Ani"
    Lightning Round:
    Bibio — BIB10
    Frankie Cosmos — Inner World Peace
    Tegan & Sara — Crybaby
    Other Notable Releases:
    a-ha — True North
    Alice Boman — The Space Between
    Archers of Loaf — Reason in Decline
    Arctic Monkeys — The Car
    Babyface — Girls Night Out
    Carly Rae Jepsen — The Loneliest Time
    Dry Cleaning — Stumpwork
    Goat — Oh Death
    Jesse Harris — Silver Balloon
    Jeezy & DJ Drama — Snofall
    Meghan Trainor — Takin' It Back
    Rubblebucket — Earth Worship
    Simple Minds — Direction of the Heart
    Sloan — Steady
    Takuya Kuroda — Midnight Crisp
    Wiki & subjxct 5 — Cold Cuts
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    How the rhythms and resilience of Puerto Rico shape iLe's music Oct 19, 2022
    Alt.Latino's Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with iLe to talk about salsa music, Puerto Rico's role in her art and being la bebé of the family.
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    New Mix: Sevdaliza, Mabe Fratti, The Arcs, more Oct 18, 2022
    All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a song for oppressed women worldwide from Sevdaliza, the experimental cellist Mabe Fratti, Billy Strings performing with his dad and more.
    Featured Songs And Artists:
    1. The Arcs: "Keep On Dreamin'," from Electrophonic Chronic
    2. Sevdaliza: "Woman Life Freedom" (Single)
    3. Pearla: "The Place With No Weather," from Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime Is Coming
    4. Eszter Balint: "The First Day," from I HATE MEMORY!
    5. Billy Strings: "Long Journey Home," from Me/and/Dad
    6. Mabe Fratti: "Esta Vez," from Se Ve Desde Aquí
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out on Oct. 14 Oct 14, 2022

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the long-awaited return of M.I.A., plus new records from Tove Lo, The 1975, Mykki Blanco and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. M.I.A. — Mata
    Featured Songs: "The One," "Popular"
    2. Tove Lo — Dirt Femme
    Featured Songs: "2 Die 4," "Suburbia"
    3. Mykki Blanco — Stay Close to Music
    Featured Songs: "Trust A Little Bit," "Family Ties," "French Lessons," "Carry On"
    4. The 1975 — Being Funny in a Foreign Language
    Featured Songs: "I'm In Love With You," "When We Are Together"
    5. Ryuichi Sakamoto — Exception (Original Soundtrack)
    Featured Songs: "Opening For Exception," "Collusion," "Operating The Drone"
    Lightning Round:
    Lil Baby — It's Only Me
    Mavi — Laughing So Hard It Hurts
    AO Gerber — Meet Me at the Gloaming
    Plains — I Walked With You a Ways
    Betty Who — Big!
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    Presenting Alt.Latino: The rapper Farruko on finding God — and a whole new sound Oct 13, 2022

    From our friends at Alt.Latino, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre sit down with Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado to talk about creating the character of Farruko, developing a relationship with God and spreading a message of love.
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    A Sigur Rós masterpiece turns 20, plus Samia, JFDR, the sounds of Ghana and more Oct 11, 2022
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares gorgeous new music from the Ghana-born artist Okaidja Afroso, a spare reflection from the singer Samia, the 20th anniversary edition of the Sigur Rós album ( ) and more.
    1. Okaidja Afroso: "Gidi Gidi," from Jaku Mumor
    2. Lydia Ramsey: "Revival," from Like A Dream
    3. Samia: "Kill Her Freak Out" (Single)
    4. JFDR: "The Orchid" (Single)
    5. Sigur Rós: "Untitled #7 (Jacobs Studio Sessions)," from ( ) Remastered
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out Oct. 7 Oct 07, 2022

    WILLOW's first single, "Whip My Hair," came out just shy of the singer's 10th birthday. Now 21, she's returned with her fifth full-length album, titled . The record has big arena-rock vibes to go with its spiky pop-punk songcraft, and it effectively captures WILLOW's gift for conveying deeply felt emotions and the thrum of anxiety. We've also got new albums from genre-smashing singer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist NNAMDÏ, arty rapper Open Mike Eagle, dance-music producer TSHA and the venerated space-jazz ensemble Sun Ra Arkestra.
    Featured Albums:

    1. WILLOW —
    Featured Songs: "WHY?," "ur a "
    2. NNAMDÏ — Please Have a Seat
    Featured Songs: "Armoire," "ANXIOUS EATER," "Careful"
    3. Open Mike Eagle — Component System With the Auto Reverse
    Featured Songs: "79th and Stony Island," "I Retired Then I Changed My Mind," "Peak Lockdown Raps"
    4. TSHA — Capricorn Sun
    Featured Songs: "OnlyL (feat. Nimmo)," "Giving Up (feat. Mafro)," "Running," "Sister," "Anxious Mind (feat. Clementine Douglas)"
    5. Sun Ra Arkestra — Living Sky
    Featured Songs: "Somebody Else's Idea," "Marshall's Groove," "Night of the Living Sky," "Firefly"
    Lightning Round:

    Quavo & Takeoff — Only Built for Infinity Links
    Fatnice — Vanglorious
    Say She She — Prism
    Collapsing Stars — Chapter
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    Presenting Alt.Latino: Carla Morrison on Latinx mental health and her new sound Oct 05, 2022

    From our friends at Alt.Latino, Felix Contreras sits down with Carla Morrison to talk about her new sound, the importance of mental health and the art of the Parisian non.
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    The Best Music of September Oct 03, 2022

    Tyler Childers went to church, Makaya McCraven sampled himself, Sudan Archives got silly and sexy, Alex G distilled his production quirks and Björk stuck her toes in the earth.
    Featured Tracks and Artists:
    1. Tyler Childers: "Old Country Church (Jubilee Version)" from Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?
    2. Makaya McCraven: "Seventh String" from In These Times
    3. Sudan Archives: "Selfish Soul" from Natural Brown Prom Queen
    4. Alex G: "Miracles" from God Save the Animals
    5. Björk: "Fungal City" from Fossora
    Our panel's additional recommendations for August:
    • Lou Turner, Microcosmos
    • SiR, "Nothing Even Matters"
    • Sonja, Loud Arriver
    Read the NPR Music review:
    • Makaya McCraven, In These Times
    • Sudan Archives, Natural Brown Prom Queen
    • Alex G, God Save the Animals
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 30 Sep 30, 2022

    It's been five years since Björk last released an album, but now the Icelandic icon is back with a deeply inventive set called Fossora. Every sound on the record feels as if it's springing into the mix from a different direction, as her vibrant voice shares space with everything from bass clarinets to the voices of Björk's own offspring. Fossora was inspired, at least in part, by the death of the singer's mother, but joy also abounds.
    We've also got the star-packed major-label debut of veteran rapper Freddie Gibbs, a reinvention for the long-running jazz group The Bad Plus, the return of U.K. pop star Craig David and a wild electro-pop record from Shygirl.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Björk — Fossora
    Featured Songs: "Fossora," "Mycelia," "Sorrowful Soil"
    2. Freddie Gibbs — $oul $old $eparately
    Featured Songs: "Pain and Strife (feat. Offset)," "CIA"
    3. The Bad Plus — The Bad Plus
    Featured Songs: "Sun Wall," "Stygian Pools," "In the Bright Future"
    4. Craig David — 22
    Featured Songs: "DNA," "My Heart's Been Waiting for You," "Teardrops"
    5. Shygirl — Nymph
    Featured Songs: "Firefly," "Coochie (a bedtime story)," "Nike," Missin u"
    Lightning Round:

    Kid Cudi — Entergalactic
    Various Artists — The Birdsong Project Vol. V
    Adam Blackstone — Legacy (out Sept. 23)
    Various Artists — Blue Note Re:imagined II
    Ashley McBryde — Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville
    Tyler Childers — Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?
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    Presenting Alt.Latino: Why Tiny Desk Contest winner Alisa Amador almost gave up music Sep 28, 2022

    From our friends at Alt.Latino, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with Tiny Desk Contest winner Alisa Amador to talk about intentionality in community building, almost quitting music and finding nourishment in her art.
    Correction: An earlier version of this episode incorrectly said Linda Diaz won the 2021 Tiny Desk Contest. She won in 2020.
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    The 20th anniversary edition of Wilco's 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,' Julia Jacklin, more Sep 27, 2022
    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen samples a massive, 20th anniversary edition of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and shares his favorite new tracks of the week, from Brian Eno, Julia Jacklin and more.
    Featured Songs And Artists:
    1. Wilco: "Ashes of American Flags (Stravinsky mix)," from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Deluxe Edition)
    2. Brian Eno: "We Let It In," from FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
    3. Luke Sital-Singh: "Blind Missiles," from Dressing Like a Stranger
    4. JEAN DAWSON: "PIRATE RADIO*," from CHAOS NOW*
    5. Julia Jacklin: "Moviegoer," from PRE PLEASURE
    6. Steady Holiday & Bedouine: "People Take Pictures of Each Other" (Single)

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    New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 23 Sep 23, 2022

    NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include veteran folksinger Beth Orton, Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré and more.
    Featured Albums:
    1. Peter Matthew Bauer — Flowers
    Featured Songs: "Chiyoda, Arkansas, Manila," "Flowers"
    2. Beth Orton — Weather Alive
    Featured Songs: "Lonely," "Fractals"
    3. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin — Ali
    Featured Songs: "Mahine Me," "Savanne"
    4. Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet — Evergreen
    Featured Songs: "Other Song," "The Evergreen Stem"
    5. Makaya McCraven — In These Times
    Featured Songs: "Dream Another," "The Title"
    Lightning Round:
    The Comet Is Coming — Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
    Young RJ — World Tour
    Angelica Sanchez Trio — Sparkle Beings
    Alex G — God Save the Animals
    Nils Frahm — Music for Animals
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    Presenting Alt.Latino: How Rosalía found her confidence Sep 21, 2022

    From our friends at Alt.Latino, Anamaria Sayre sits down with Spanish superstar Rosalía, who just earned eight Latin Grammy nominations, to talk about her musical inspirations, divine sensuality and constant pull to transform.
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    New Mix: Will Sheff, Beth Orton, Miya Folick, more Sep 20, 2022
    All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including the return of Beth Orton, a solo debut from Okkervil River's Will Sheff, Miya Folick and more.
    Featured songs and artists:
    1. Courtney Marie Andrews: "These Are The Good Old Days," from Loose Future
    2. Beth Orton: "Forever Young," from Weather Alive
    3. Miya Folick: "Oh God," from 2007 - EP
    4. Hand Habits & Amelia Meath: "Under The Water" (Single)
    5. Will Sheff (feat. Cassandra Jenkins): "In the Thick of It," from Nothing Special
    6. Hammered Hulls: "Boilermaker's Notch," from Careening
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    New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 16 Sep 16, 2022

    The superstar K-pop girl group BLACKPINK is one of the biggest pop juggernauts in the world, with billions of streams and massive world tours to its name. Born Pink, its second full-length album — and "full-length" is relative here, since we're talking about eight songs in under 25 minutes — promises to further expedite BLACKPINK's domination of the U.S. charts.
    We've also got new projects from Brazilian-born electro-pop artist LYZZA, Afropop-inspired R&B singer-songwriter Miloe, Tiny Desk Contest-winning singer-songwriter Quinn Christopherson and dance-pop star Rina Sawayama. On this week's New Music Friday, Radio Milwaukee's Tarik Moody and NPR Music contributors Christina Lee and Cyrena Touros join guest host Stephen Thompson.
    Featured Albums:
    BLACKPINK — Born Pink
    Featured Songs: "Typa Girl," "Pink Venom," "Hard to Love"
    LYZZA — Mosquito
    Featured Songs: "Lucky You," "Hold Me," "Heathens Call (feat. Backxwash)"
    Miloe — gaps
    Featured Songs: "elastic," "rewind (feat. PawPaw Rod)"
    Quinn Christopherson — Write Your Name In Pink
    Featured Songs: "Uptown," "Evelene"
    Rina Sawayama — Hold the Girl
    Featured Songs: "Catch Me in the Air," "Hold the Girl," "Forgiveness"
    Lightning Round:
    Mura Masa — Demon Time
    Pink Siifu & Real Bad Man — Real Bad Flights
    The Beths — Expert in a Dying Field
    Jesca Hoop — Order of Romance
    Death Cab for Cutie — Asphalt Meadows
    Wilco — Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Super Deluxe Edition)
    Gogol Bordello — Solidaritine
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