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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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"

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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."

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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)

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

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.

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)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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'

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 cités englouties
6. SOLE: "nous (feat. Chamoon)," from våra liv

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 Égarés
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

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.

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

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.

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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)

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.

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

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.

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)

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

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

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

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."

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

Guest DJ Tom Verlaine (2006) Jan 29, 2023

Tom Verlaine spins everything from Charles Mingus to The Day the Earth Stood Still soundtrack.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 (ST๐๐๗)
• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.
Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney

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.
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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.
Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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)

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

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.

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

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

Presenting Alt.Latino: Omar Apollo on the power of inclusion Sep 14, 2022

From our friends at NPR's Alt.Latino, Anamaria Sayre sits down with R&B darling Omar Apollo to talk about his experiences growing up in Indiana and becoming a role model for queer Latinx kids.

New Mix: The Comet Is Coming, Anna Tivel, Winter, more Sep 13, 2022

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen returns with some of his favorite tracks of the week, including new ones from the groundbreaking reggae artist Horace Andy, singer-songwriter Anna Tivel and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Horace Andy: "Feverish," from Midnight Scorchers
2. The Comet is Coming: "TECHNICOLOUR," from Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
3. Very Very: "Strange Occasion" (Single)
4. Anna Tivel: "Outsiders," from Outsiders
5. Winter: "good," from What Kind of Blue Are You?
6. Mama's Broke: "How It Ends," from Narrow Line

New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 9 Sep 09, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include genre-straddling polymaths Santigold and Sudan Archives, R&B sensation Ari Lennox and more.
Featured Albums:

Ari Lennox — age/sex/location
Featured Songs: "Queen Space (feat. Summer Walker)," "Hoodie"
Sudan Archives — Natural Brown Prom Queen
Featured Songs: "Copycat (Broken Notions)," "Chevy S10," "Yellow Brick Road, TDLY (Homegrown Land)"
The Paranoyds — Talk Talk Talk
Featured Songs: "Freak Out," "Single Origin Experience," "Sunburn"
Sampa the Great — As Above, So Below
Featured Songs: "Lane (feat. Denzel Curry)," "Can I Live"
Santigold — Spirituals
Featured Songs: "High Priestess," "Ain't Ready," "My Horror," "Shake"
Lightning Round:

Son Little — Like Neptune
Jackson Wang — Magic Man
Oliver Sim — Hideous Bastard
Built To Spill — When the Wind Forgets Your Name
Madison Cunningham — Revealer

This episode is 'For The Birds' Sep 07, 2022

A massive new collection of more than 240 songs and spoken word recordings — all about birds — features work from Andrew Bird, Kamasi Washington, Laurie Anderson, Alice Coltrane, Cassandra Jenkins, Yo-Yo Ma, Beck and more.

New Music Friday: The best releases out on Sept. 2 Sep 02, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include rapper Psalm One, the veteran metal band Megadeth, English singer Yungblud and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Yungblud — Yungblud
Featured Songs: "Memories (feat. WILLOW)," "Tissues"
2. Psalm One X Custom Made — Bigg Perrm
Featured Songs: "Cristalle Jr.," "Pitchfork Score"
3. Megadeth — The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!
Featured Songs: "Night Stalkers (feat. Ice-T)"
4. Living Hour — Someday Is Today
Featured Songs: "Feelings Meeting (feat. Jay Som)," "Hump"
5. Stereolab — Pulse of the Early Brain (Switched On Vol. 5)
Featured Songs: "Laissez Faire," "ABC," "Symbolic Logic of Now!"

The Best Music of August Sep 01, 2022

Punches flew from the Mountain Goats, Roc Marciano and The Alchemist teamed up, Tomu DJ took unexpected turns, Julia Jacklin looked deep within, Eli Winter opened up and Tommy McLain returned.
Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. The Mountain Goats: "Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome" from Bleed Out
2. Roc Marciano & The Alchemist: "JJ Flash" from The Elephant Man's Bones
3. Tomu DJ: "Optimistic" from Half Moon Bay
4. Julia Jacklin, "Ignore Tenderness" from Pre Pleasure
5. Eli Winter: "Dayenu" from Eli Winter
6. Tommy McLain: "Somebody" from I Ran Down Every Dream
Our panel's additional recommendations for August:
Young Nudy, EA Monster
Diamanda Galás, Broken Gargoyles
Quinn Christopherson, "Celine"
Danger Mouse & Black Thought, Cheat Codes
Eight, Delight in Eight

New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 26 Aug 26, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week, including the highly anticipated third album by Atlanta rapper J.I.D. and a massive Blondie box set.
Featured Albums:
1. J.I.D — The Forever Story
Featured Songs: "Dance Now," "Better Days," "Raydar"
2. Stella Donnelly — Flood
Featured Songs: "Lungs," "Morning Silence," "How Was Your Day?"
3. Miguel Zenón — Müsica De Las Americas
Featured Songs: "Opresion Y Revolucion," "Tainos Y Caribes"
4. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — Let's Turn It Into Sound
Featured Songs: "Locate," "Have You Felt Lately?"
5. Blondie — Against the Odds: 1974-1982
Featured Songs: "Rapture" "The Tide Is High (Demo Version)," "Heart of Glass"
Lightning Round:

Carolyn Malachi — Counter Narratives
Julia Jacklin — Pre Pleasure
Regina Spektor — 11:11 + Papa's Bootlegs
Valerie June — Under Cover
Meechy Darko — Gothic Luxury
Other notable releases for August 26:
blackbear — In Loving Memory
Bret McKenzie — Songs Without Jokes
Chris Forsyth — Evolution Here We Come
Diamanda Galás — Broken Gargoyles
Embrace — How To Be a Person Like Other People
Eyedress — Full Time Lover
Ezra Furman — All of Us Flames
Ingrid Andress — Good Person
Marcus King — Young Blood
Muse — Will Of The People
Pantha du Prince — Garden Gaia
Pianos Become the Teeth — Drift
Sélébéyone — Xaybu: The Unseen
Spice— Emancipated
William Orbit — The Painter
Yellowjackets — Parallel Motion

New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 19 Aug 19, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Hot Chip, the R&B singer Tink, Shemekia Copeland, singer-songwriter Anna Tivel and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Hot Chip — Freakout/Release
Featured Songs: "Down," "Freakout/Release," "Miss the Bliss," "The Evil That Men Do"
2. Terence Etc. — Vortex
Featured Songs: "In Contemplation of Clair's Scent," "Infinence or Infinity," "The Merchant of Flatbush"
3. Anna Tivel — Outsiders
Featured Songs: "Outsiders, "Black Umbrella," "The Basement"
4. Tink — Pillow Talk
Featured Songs: "Mine," "Drunk Text'n"
5. Shemekia Copeland — Done Come Too Far
Featured Songs: "Too Far To Be Gone," "The Talk," "Fell in Love with a Honky," "Gullah Geechee," "The Dolls are Sleeping"
Lightning Round:
Andrew Combs — Sundays
Internet Money — We All We Got
Muna Ileiwat — Twenty-Seven
THICK — Happy Now
Other notable releases for Aug. 19:
AITCH — Close to Home
Cass McCombs — Heartmind
Demi Lovato — HOLY FVCK
Eli Winter — Eli Winter
Kim Myhr — Sympathetic Magic
Loudon Wainwright III — Lifetime Achievement
Madonna — Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones
Marketa Irglova — Lila
The Mountain Goats — Bleed Out
Panic! At The Disco — Viva Las Vengeance
Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries II
Silversun Pickups — Physical Thrills
The Soft Pink Truth — Was It Ever Real?

New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 12 Aug 12, 2022

The best new albums out this week include Cheat Codes from Danger Mouse and Black Thought, a stunning debut from singer and TikTok phenom Bella Poarch, Hudson Mohawke's Cry Sugar and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Danger Mouse & Black Thought — Cheat Codes
Featured Songs: "Strangers," "Aquamarine"
2. Bella Poarch — Dolls
Featured Songs: "Dolls," "Build a Bitch"
3. Hudson Mohawke — Cry Sugar
Featured Songs: "Rain Shadow," "Ingle Nook," "Stump," "Behold"
4. Beastie Boys — Check Your Head (Deluxe Edition)
Featured Songs: "Jimmy James," "Gratitude," "So What'Cha Want (Butt Naked Version)," "Pass the Mic (Pt. 2, Skills To Pay The Bills)"
5. NIKI — Nicole
Featured Songs: "Keeping Tabs," "Take A Chance With Me," "Facebook Friends"
Lightning Round:
Andy Bey — Experience and Judgment
Peter Mulvey & SistaSrings — Love is the Only Thing
Sylvan Esso — No Rules Sandy
Tomu DJ — Half Moon Bay
Other notable releases for Aug. 12:
Boris — Heavy Rocks (2022)
Pale Waves — Unwanted
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom — Reset
Pavement — Slanted and Enchanted (30th Anniversary Edition)
Rat Tally — In My Car

New Mix: dodie, Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin, Young Jesus, more Aug 09, 2022

All Songs Considered'sBob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a new project from Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson, a Vieux Farka Touré--Khruangbin collaboration and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Plains: "Problem With It," from I Walked With You A Ways
2. dodie: "Got Weird" (Single)
3. Spring Summer: "Mountaineer," from T.E.A.R.S
4. Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin: "Savanne," from Ali
5. Hermanos Gutiérrez: "El Bueno Y El Malo," from El Bueno Y El Malo
6. Young Jesus: "Ocean (feat. Tomberlin)," from Shepherd Head

New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 5 Aug 05, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best releases out this week include a potent new EP from the rapper Doechii, hyper-pop from Pussy Riot, roots salsa from Colombia's Meridian Brothers and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Doechii — she / her / black bitch
Featured Tracks: "Bitches Be," "Swamp Bitches," "Persuasive"
2. Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento — Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento
Featured Tracks: "Bomba Atómica," "Metamorfosis"
3. AJ Suede — Oil On Canvas
Featured Tracks: "Growing Diamonds," "Wonder," "Monochrome"
4. Pussy Riot — MATRIARCHY NOW
Featured Tracks: "PRINCESS CHARMING," "PLASTIC," "POOF BITCH"
5. Planet Drum — In The Groove
Featured Track: "King Clave"
Lightning Round:
Alexia Bomtempo — DOCE CARNAVAL
Araceli Poma — "Agua de Olvido"
Art Moore — Art Moore
Various — Rise Jamaica!
Other notable releases for Aug. 5:
Bobby Shmurda — BodBoy
Calvin Harris — Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2
Fireboy DML — Playboy
Kokoroko — Could We Be More
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires — Old-Time Folks
Mall Grab — What I Breathe
Neil Young — Noise & Flowers
T Bone Burnett — The Invisible Light: Spells

The Best Music of July Aug 01, 2022

Maggie Rogers leveled up and Beyoncé dropped another album we'll think about all year. But Johnny Gandelsman also took us across America, Bear1Boss super-smashed rap and Caterina Barbieri found immanence in synths.
Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. Maggie Rogers: "Shatter" from Surrender
2. Beyoncé: "PLASTIC OFF THE SOFA" from RENAISSANCE
3. Johnny Gandelsman: "Surrender to the Adventure for Musician & Tape: 1. Blossom / American Dream" and "O for Violin & Voices" from This is America: An Anthology 2020-2021
4. Bear1Boss: "$$$" from Bear1Boss
5. Caterina Barbieri: "Canticle of Cryo" from Spirit Exit
Our panel's additional recommendations for July:
• Adam Kent, Tania León: Teclas de mi piano
• Gwenno: Tresor
• Kali Malone: Living Torch
See also:
• Maggie Rogers' summer mixtape sweats with sweetness
• Caterina Barbieri's rapturous electronica was forged in deep solitude

New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 29 Jul 29, 2022

Beyoncé's Renaissance isn't the only big release out now. NPR Music's other picks for the week's best new albums include Maggie Rogers' Surrender, the debut from DOMI & JD Beck and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Beyoncé — Renaissance
Featured Tracks: "PURE/HONEY"
2. Maggie Rogers — Surrender
Featured Tracks: "Want Want," "Horses," "Shatter," Different Kind of World"
3. DOMI & JD Beck — NOT TiGHT
Featured Tracks: "BOWLING," TAKE A CHANCE," "WHATUP," "PILOT"
4. Lava La Rue — Hi-Fidelity
Featured Tracks: "Don't Trip," "Motel," "Cry Baby," "Don't Come Back"
5. Florist — Florist
Featured Tracks: "Red Bird Pt 2 (Morning)," "Spring in Hours"
Lightning Round:
King Princess — Hold On Baby
Snarky Puppy — "Bet" (single)
Tems — "No Woman No Cry" (single)
Wilder Maker — Male Models
Other notable releases for July 29:
Amanda Shires — Take It Like A Man
Chat Pile — God's Country
Deaton Chris Anthony — Sid the Kid
Hayley Kiyoko — PANORAMA
Josh Rouse — Going Places
Obijuan & YUNGMORPHEUS — Slang Casino
Of Montreal — Freewave Lucifer fck
Phony — AT SOME POINT YOU STOP
$uicideboy$ — Sing Me a Lullaby My Sweet Temptation
Tedeschi Trucks Band — I Am The Moon: III, The Fall

The power of Beyoncé is about to change music... again Jul 26, 2022

Due out this Friday, July 29, Beyoncé's Act I Renaissance has generated a massive wave of anticipation. In this round-table discussion, we breakdown why we're excited, why it matters and what we might expect.

New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 22 Jul 22, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Flo Milli, Jack White, Rico Nasty, Joey Bada$$, The Sea And Cake's Sam Prekop and John McEntire, and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Flo Milli — You Still Here, Ho?
Featured Tracks: "Conceited," "Pay Day," "On My Nerves"
2. Jack White — Entering Heaven Alive
Featured Tracks: "I've Got You Surrounded (With My Love)," "A Tip from You to Me," "Taking Me Back (Gently)," "Queen of the Bees"
3. Rico Nasty — Las Ruinas
Featured Tracks: "Skullflower," "Messy," "Gotsta Get Paid," "Easy"
4. Joey Bada$$ — 2000
Featured Tracks: " Eulogy," "Show Me"
5. Sam Prekop & John McEntire — Sons Of
Featured Tracks: "A Ghost At Noon," "A Yellow Robe"
Lightning Round:
Beach Bunny — Emotional Creature
Jitwam — Third
The Koreatown Oddity — ISTHISFORREAL?
Other notable releases for July 22:
Ben Harper — Bloodline Maintenance
Channelers — Time, Space and Thought
Dawes — Misadventures Of Doomscroller
Imperial Triumphant — Spirit of Ecstasy
The Kooks — 10 Tracks to Echo in the Dark
Nina Nastasia — Riderless Horse
Oceans of Slumber — Starlight and Ash
ODESZA — The Last Goodbye
Pool Kids — Pool Kids
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Agitas Al Sol
RZA & Bobby Digital — RZA Presents: Bobby Digital and the Pit of Snakes
The Sadies — Colder Streams
She & Him — Melt Away: A Tribute To Brian Wilson
Tanya Tagaq — Tongues North Star Remixes
Thor Harris — Doom Dub II
Ty Segall — "Hello, Hi"
See more of the best new music out now via NPR Music's #Nowplaying

New Mix: The 1975, The Beths, King Princess, Danielle Ponder, more Jul 20, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including new ones from The 1975, Tiny Desk Contest contestant Danielle Ponder, The Black Angels and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Madi Diaz: "Hangover" (Single)
2. Danielle Ponder: "So Long," from Some of Us Are Brave
3. King Princess: "Cursed," from Hold On Baby
4. The Beths: "Expert in a Dying Field," from Expert in a Dying Field
5. The 1975: "Part of the Band," from Being Funny In a Foreign Language
6. The Black Angels: "Firefly," from Wilderness of Mirrors
Watch videos for each track and more at the All Songs Considered website.

New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 15 Jul 15, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Lizzo's Special, the ramshackle pop of Superorganism, beabadoobee, a genre-defying solo release from The Internet's Steve Lacy and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Lizzo — Special
Featured Songs: "About Damn Time," "Grrrls"
2. beabadoobee — Beatopia
Featured Songs: "10:36," "See You Soon," "Ripples," "Talk"
3. Steve Lacy — Gemini Rights
Featured Songs: "Mercury," "Helmet," "2geteher (Enterlude)"
4. Superorganism — World Wide Pop
Featured Songs: "Flying," "Teenager," "Black Hole Baby"
5. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad with Katalyst — JID 013
Featured Songs: "Juneteenth," "Summer Solstice"
Lightning Round:
Attia Taylor — Space Ghost
black midi — Hellfire
Lil Silva — Yesterday is Heavy
Interpol — The Other Side of Make-Believe
Other notable releases for July 15:
The A's — Fruit
Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart — Zenith/Nadir
Arp — New Pleasures
Elf Power — Artificial Countrysides
j-hope — jack in the box
JoVia Armstrong — The Antidote Suite
M. Geddes Gengras — Expressed, I Noticed Silence
Ozomatli — Marching On
Ronnie Foster — Reboot

New Mix: Margo Price, renforshort, The Mountain Goats, Tianna Esperanza, more Jul 12, 2022

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's favorite new tracks of the week include a stirring collaboration with Margo Price, Mavis Staples and Adia Victoria, a "training montage" from The Mountain Goats and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Margo Price: "Fight to Make It (feat. Mavis Staples & Adia Victoria)" (Single)
2. The Mountain Goats: "Training Montage," from Bleed Out
3. Tianna Esperanza: "Princess Slit and the Raincoat Prince" (Single)
4. renforshort: "i miss myself," from dear amelia
5. Wilder Maker: "Against Numbers (feat. Katie Von Schleicher)," from Male Models
6. Indigo Sparke: "Pressure in My Chest," from Hysteria

New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 8 Jul 08, 2022

R&B singer Brent Faiyaz's reflective Wasteland, Metric's epic Formentera, a meditative instrumental record from producer Apollo Brown and more make our shortlist for the best albums out this week.
Featured Albums:
1. Brent Faiyaz — WASTELAND
Featured songs: "PRICE OF FAME," "GRAVITY," "DEAD MAN WALKING"
2. Metric — Formentera
Featured songs: "Doomscroller"
3. Apollo Brown — This Must Be The Place
Featured songs: "Catching Moments"
4. Anna Butterss — Activities
Featured songs: "Doo Wop"
5. renforshort — dear amelia
Featured songs: "better off"
Lightning Round:
Burna Boy — Love, Damini
NoSo — Stay Proud of Me
rei brown — Xeno
Wu-Lu — LOGGERHEAD
Other notable releases for July 8:
Delicate Steve — After Hours
Emmanuel Jal — Shangah
The Faim — Talk Talk
Katy J Pearson — Sound of the Morning
Laura Veirs — Found Light
Megadeth — The Sick, The Dying... and the Dead!
Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Toast
Rae Morris — Rachel@Fairyland
Rapport — Floating Through the Wonderwave
Tye Tribbett — All Things New
Tyshawn Sorey Trio — Mesmerism
Vancouver Sleep Clinic — Fallen Paradise
Wet — Pink Room

New Mix: Sylvan Esso, Ondara, Momma, Nora Brown and more Jul 06, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including a surprising new single from Sylvan Esso, the L.A. rock duo known as Momma, the singer-songwriter Ondara and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Sylvan Esso: "Your Reality" (Single)
2. Nora Brown: "Little Satchel," from Long Time To Be Gone
3. Lindsay Clark: "Evening Star," from Carpe Noctem
4. Yard Act & Elton John: "100% Endurance" (Single)
5. Momma: "Motorbike," from Household Name
6. Ondara: "An Alien In Minneapolis," from Spanish Villager No. 3

The Best Music of June Jul 01, 2022

June brought us The Suffers' socially conscious party music, Saya Gray's headphones-worthy debut, GIVĒON's R&B ballads, Regina Spektor's elaborate songwriting and Petrol Girls' amped-up punk.
Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. The Suffers: "Don't Bother Me" and "Yada Yada" from It Starts with Love
2. Saya Gray: "I FOUND A FLOORBOARD UNDER THE SOIL!" from 19 Masters
3. GIVĒON: "Scarred" from Give Or Take
4. Regina Spektor "One Man's Prayer" from Home, before and after
5. Petrol Girls: "Preachers" from Baby
Our panel's additional recommendations for June:
• S.G. Goodman, Teeth Marks
• Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler, For All Our Days That Tear the Heart
• Beyoncé, "BREAK MY SOUL"
• SZA, "Jodie"
• Linda Ayupuka, God Created Everything
Discover NPR Music's favorite albums and songs of 2022 (so far).

Norah Jones reflects on 20 years of 'Come Away With Me' Jun 28, 2022

The singer explains why Blue Note Records rejected her first version of the beloved album and shares her original, previously unheard tracks, now released for a 20th anniversary edition of the record.
Plus a deep dive on the album with NPR Music's Ann Powers, WBGO and Jazz Night In America's Nate Chinen and host Robin Hilton.

New Music Friday: The best releases out June 24 Jun 24, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from the electro-pop band MUNA, R&B singer GIVĒON, country star Jimmie Allen, Soccer Mommy and more.
Featured Albums:
1. MUNA — MUNA
Featured Song: "What I Want"
2. GIVĒON — Give or Take
Featured Song: "Lost Me"
3. Soccer Mommy — Sometimes, Forever
Featured Song: "Don't Ask Me"
4. Jimmie Allen — Tulip Drive
Featured Song: "what i'm talkin' 'bout"
5. Lupe Fiasco — DRILL MUSIC IN ZION
Featured Song: "AUTOBOTO (feat. Nayirah)"
Lightning Round
• Ella Fitzgerald — Ella at the Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook
• Katie Alice Greer — Barbarism
• Dear Silas — It's Giving SELF LOVE!
• Regina Spektor — Home, before and after
• Luke Combs — Growin' Up
• Arooj Aftab — Vulture Prince (Deluxe Edition)
• Zola Jesus — Arkhon
• Various Artists — Elvis (OST)
• Joan Shelley — The Spur

New Mix: Dry Cleaning, Jesca Hoop, Alex G, Rubblebucket, Jake Blount, Marlon Williams Jun 22, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares an anthemic call to action from Jesca Hoop, a song for a stressed-out brain from Dry Cleaning, and two tunes inspired by television shows.
Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Jesca Hoop: "Hatred Has a Mother," from Order of Romance
2. Jake Blount: "Didn't It Rain," from The New Faith
3. Alex G: "Runner," from God Save the Animals
4. Rubblebucket: "Morning in the Sun" (Single)
5. Marlon Williams: "Thinking of Nina," from My Boy
6. Dry Cleaning: "Don't Press Me," from Stumpwork

New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 17 Jun 17, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from R&B singer Yaya Bey, the shape-shifting rock of Bartees Strange, Perfume Genius, DJ and producer J. Rocc and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Yaya Bey — Remember Your North Star
Featured Songs: "alright," "rolling stoner," "meet me in brooklyn"
2. Bartees Strange — Farm to Table
Featured Songs: "Mulholland Dr.," "Hold the Line," "Hennessy," "Cosigns"
3. Wild Up — Julius Eastman, Vol. 2: Joy Boy
Featured Songs: "Stay On It," "Touch Him When (Heavy)," "Joy Boy"
4. J. Rocc — A Wonderful Letter
Featured Songs: "Keep On (Yeah)," "Pajama Party," "Dancing With the Best"
5. Perfume Genius — Ugly Season
Featured Songs: "Teeth," "Cenote," "Scherzo"
Lightning Round:
Erica Banks — Diary of The Flow Queen
Harkin — Honeymoon Suite
Kevin Gates — Khaza
RY X — Blood Moon
Other notable releases for June 17:
Alanis Morissette — The Storm Before the Calm
Carlos Simon & Marco Pave' — Requiem for the Enslaved
Flasher — Love is Yours
Foals — Life is Yours
Hercules & Love Affair — In Amber
Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals — King Cobra
Logic — Vinyl Days
Mt. Joy — Orange Blood
Sound of Ceres — Emerald Sea

New Mix: S.G. Goodman, The A's, The Beths, Tamino, more Jun 14, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares new tracks from Belgian-Egyptian singer Tamino, Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath and Daughter of Sword's Alexandra Sauser-Monnig together as The A's and more.
Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. The A's: "He Needs Me," from Fruit
2. S.G. Goodman: "Dead Soldiers," from Teeth Marks
3. The Beths: "Silence Is Golden," from Expert In A Dying Field
4. Madison Cunningham: "Hospital," from Revealer
5. Katie Bejsiuk: "Olive, Ny" from The Woman on the Moon
6. Tamino: "The First Disciple," from Sahar

New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 10 Jun 10, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Nature's World from the Chicago hip-hop duo Mother Nature, FKJ's VINCENT, a meditative album from Japanese composer Midori Takada and more.
Featured Albums:
1. FKJ — VINCENT
Featured Songs: "Let's Live," "Greener"
2. ELUCID — I Told Bessie
Featured Songs: "Ghoulie," "Smile Lines"
3. Nick Mulvey — New Mythology
Featured Songs: "Mecca," "Star Nation"
4. Mother Nature & Renzell — Nature's World
Featured Song: "Midnight Garden"
5. Midori Takada — You Who are Leaving to Nirvana and Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter
Featured Songs: "Kannon Daiji," "Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter (In the Morning)"
Lightning Round:
BTS — Proof
Flora Purim — If You Will (physical release)
Julius Rodriguez — Let Sound Tell All
Shearwater — The Great Awakening
Other notable releases for June 10:
Bloomsday — Place to Land
Carrie Underwood — Denim & Rhinestones
Free the Robots — Kaduwa
George Ezra — Gold Rush Kid
Joyce Manor — 40 Oz. to Fresno
Judah & The Lion — Revival
Mapache — Roscoe's Dream
Max Richter — The New Four Seasons
Moonchild Sanelly — Phases
Vance Joy — In Our Own Sweet Time
Yann Tiersen — 11 5 18 25 18

New Mix: Death Cab For Cutie, Sylvan Esso, Lou Reed, NoSo, more Jun 07, 2022

All Songs host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week including the return of Death Cab for Cutie, a rare demo from Lou Reed, the singer-songwriter known as NoSo, Sylvan Esso and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Sylvan Esso: "Sunburn" (Single)
2. Annie Hamilton: "Exist," from the future is here but it feels kinda like the past
3. Death Cab for Cutie: "Roman Candles," from Asphalt Meadows
4. NoSo: "Parasites," from Stay Proud of Me
5. Tess Parks: "Wow," from And Those Who Were Seen Dancing
6. Lou Reed: "I'm Waiting for the Man - May 1965 Demo," from Words & Music, May 1965

New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 3 Jun 03, 2022

The week's best new albums include Fantastic Negrito's White Jesus Black Problems, Angel Olsen's Big Time, rapper Namir Blade's sci-fi-inspired Metropolis, 070 Shake's You Can't Kill Me and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Fantastic Negrito — White Jesus Black Problems
Featured Songs: "Venomous Dogma," "In My Head"
2. Angel Olsen — Big Time
Featured Songs: "All The Flowers," "Big Time"
3. 070 Shake — You Can't Kill Me
Featured Songs: "Cocoon," "The Body," "Wine And Spirits"
4. Namir Blade — Metropolis
Featured Song: "BoA"
5. Editrix — Editrix II: Editrix Goes To Hell
Featured Song: "Cowboy"
Lightning Round:
700 Bliss — Nothing to Declare (released May 27)
Horsegirl — Versions of Modern Performance
S.G. Goodman — Teeth Marks
Post Malone — Twelve Carat Toothache
Other notable releases for June 3:
Andrew Bird — Inside Problems
Chronophage — Chronophage
GWAR — The New Dark Ages
Jasmyn — In the Wild (former Weaves lead singer)
Merzbow & Lawrence English — Eternal Stalker
Michael Franti & Spearhead — Follow Your Heart
Purity Ring — Graves
Queen of Jeans — Hiding in Place
Remi Wolf — Juno Deluxe
The Suffers — It Starts with Love
Tash Sultana — MTV Unplugged (Live In Melbourne)

The Best Music of May Jun 01, 2022

May brought us Bad Bunny's stacked summer album, Kendrick Lamar's unsettled opus, Ravyn Lenae's otherworldly debut, Julia Reidy's microtonal guitar dissonance and Ethel Cain's haunted pop.
Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. Bad Bunny: "Después de la Playa" and "Otro Atardecer" from Un Verano Sin Ti
2. Kendrick Lamar: "N95" and "Mother I Sober" from Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
3. Ravyn Lenae: "Where I'm From (feat. Mereba)" from Hypnos
4. Julia Reidy: "World in World" from World in World
5. Ethel Cain: "Family Tree" from Preacher's Daughter
Our panel's additional recommendations for May:
• My Chemical Romance, "The Foundations of Decay"
• Flores, The Lives They Left
• Leikeli47, Shape Up

New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 27 May 27, 2022

The best albums out this week include Wilco's double-length Cruel Country, a debut from the singer UMI, the latest installment in Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge's Jazz Is Dead series and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Jean Carne, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge — JID012
Featured Songs: "Black Love," "Visions"
2. Wilco — Cruel Country
Featured Songs: "I Am My Mother," "The Plains," "A Lifetime To Find"
3. X Alfonso — Ancestros Sinfonicos
Featured Song: "Yakuma Kareré"
4. UMI — Forest in the City
Featuared Song: "what would u do?"
5. Nduduzo Makhathini — In the Spirit of NTU
Featured Songs: "Mama," "Emlilweni"
Other notable releases for May 27:
Brian Jackson — This Is Brian Jackson
Bright Eyes — A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, Letting Off the Happiness and Fevers and Mirrors
Dehd — Blue Skies
HAAi — Baby, We're Ascending
Isaac Dunbar — Banish the Banshee
Jonny Greenwood — The Power of the Dog OST (physical release)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri - I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon
Liam Gallagher — C'MON YOU KNOW
Maria BC — Hyaline
Rosie Carney — I Wanna Feel Happy
Sean Paul — Scorcha
Sofie Birch — Holotropica
Stars — From Capelton Hill
Steve Earle & The Dukes — Jerry Jeff

Presenting 'Pop Culture Happy Hour': Kendrick Lamar's 'Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers' May 24, 2022

In this special episode from our friends at Pop Culture Happy Hour, host Stephen Thompson talks with critics Christina Lee and Marcus J. Moore about Kendrick Lamar's new double album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers.
It's been five years since Lamar released his previous album, DAMN. Since then, he's won a Pulitzer Prize, been nominated for an Oscar, and become a parent. But Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, is anything but a breezy victory lap. Lamar examines generational trauma, sexual politics, and his own attempts to grow amid high expectations and heavy introspection.

New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 20 May 20, 2022

The best albums out this week include Harry's House from Harry Styles, jazz pianist Joey Alexander's Origin, new ones from R&B singer Ravyn Lenae, rapper Boldy James, Porridge Radio and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Harry Styles — Harry's House
Featured Tracks: "Music for a Sushi Restaurant," "Grapejuice"
2. Joey Alexander — Origin
Featured Tracks: "Remembering," "Summer Rising"
3. Ravyn Lenae — Hypnos
Featured Tracks: "3D," "Inside Out," "Xtasy"
4. Porridge Radio — Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky
Featured Tracks: "Back to the Radio," "End of Last Year"
5. Boldy James & Real Bad Man — Killing Nothing
Featured Track: "Game Time"
Other notable releases for May 20:
Charlie Hickey — Nervous At Night
Craig Finn — A Legacy of Rentals
Flume — Palaces
Hanson — Red Green Blue
Joe Rainey — Niineta
Kronos Quartet — Mỹ Lai
Lykke Li — EYEYE
Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena — West Kensington
mxmtoon — rising
SOAK — If I never know you like this again
Uffie — Sunshine Factory

New Mix: Tiny Desk Contest winner Alisa Amador, SOAK, Jens Lekman, more May 17, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen introduces this year's Tiny Desk Contest winner, Alisa Amador, plus new music from SOAK, the identical twins duo Companion, Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman and more.
Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Alisa Amador: "Milonga accidental" (Single)
2. Jens Lekman: "The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom," from The Linden Trees Are Still in Blossom
3. Companion: "If I Were a Ghost," from Second Day of Spring
4. SOAK: "purgatory," from If I never know you like this again
5. Jasmyn: "Cruel Moon," from In The Wild

New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 13 May 13, 2022

Kendrick Lamar's highly anticipated Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, Leikeli47's Shape Up, Florence + the Machine's Dance Fever and more are on our shortlist of the week's best new albums.
Featured Albums:
1. Kendrick Lamar — Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
2. Leikeli47 — Shape Up
Featured Track: "Chitty Bang"
3. Florence + the Machine — Dance Fever
Featured Track: "Choreomania"
4. Quelle Chris — DEATHFAME
Featured Track: "King in Black"
5. Tank and the Bangas — Red Balloon
Featured Track: "Communion in My Cup"
6. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davis — Firestarter
Featured Track: "Charlie's Rampage"
Other notable releases for May 13:
The Black Keys — Dropout Boogie
Kevin Morby — This Is A Photograph
Mandy Moore — In Real Life
Mary Halvorson — Amaryllis and Belladonna
Monophonics — Sage Motel
Pkew Pkew Pkew — Open Bar
Sam Gendel & Antonia Cytrynowicz — Live a Little
Say Sue Me — The Last Thing Left
The Smile — A Light For Attracting Attention
They Hate Change — Finally, New

New Mix: Regina Spektor, Stella Donnelly, Tomberlin, More May 10, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares the "most astonishing song" he's heard this year: Regina Spektor's "Up The Mountain," plus Stella Donnelly's "Lungs," the many colors of MABUTA and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Regina Spektor: "Up The Mountain," from Home, before and after
2. Rachel Bobbitt: "More" (Single)
3. Shane Cooper & MABUTA: "Finish The Sun," from Finish The Sun
4. Tomberlin: "idkwntht," from i don't know who needs to hear this...
5. Kathryn Joseph: "The Burning of Us All," from For You Who Are the Wronged
6. Stella Donnelly: "Lungs," from Flood

A conversation with Bonnie Raitt May 08, 2022

Jewly Hight from member station WNXP talks with Bonnie Raitt about the folk-and-blues legend's new album Just Like That... and how she's navigated five decades of storied music-making.

New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 6 May 06, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Sharon Van Etten's We've Been Going About This All Wrong, Jack Harlow's Come Home The Kids Miss You, Arcade Fire's WE and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Jack Harlow — Come Home The Kids Miss You
Featured Tracks: "Nail Tech," "First Class"
2. Ibeyi — Spell 31
Featured Tracks: "Made of Gold," "Sister 2 Sister"
3. Arcade Fire — WE
Featured Tracks: "Age of Anxiety I," "End of the Empire"
4. IDK & KAYTRANADA — Simple.
Featured Track: "Dog Food"
5. Sharon Van Etten — We've Been Going About This All Wrong
Featured Tracks: "Headspace," "Born"
Other notable releases for May 6:
!!! — Let It Be Blue
Bad Bunny — Un Verano Sin Ti
Belle And Sebastian — A Bit of Previous
Bryan Ferry — Love Letters
Ella Mai — Heart On My Sleeve
Emile Sandé — Let's Say For Instance
Jermiside & The Expert — The Overview Effect
JOYFULTALK — Familiar Science
Kikagaku Moyo — Kumoyo Island
Midland — The Last Resort: Greetings From
Otoboke Beaver — Super Champon
Suki Waterhouse — I Can't Let Go
Sunflower Bean — Headful of Sugar

The Best Music of April May 02, 2022

April brought us albums from a re-energized Pusha T, reggae legend Horace Andy, Myra Melford's improvised suite, Syd's broken-hearted R&B ballads and Straw Man Army's paranoid-but-expansive post-punk.
Featured Albums:
1. Horace Andy: "Watch Over Them" from Midnight Rocker
2. Pusha T: "Dreamin of the Past" from It's Almost Dry
3. Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet: "VII" from For the Love of Fire and Water
4. Syd: "CYBAH" from Broken Hearts Club
5. Straw Man Army: "Human Kind" from SOS
Other notable releases for April:
• Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia
• Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder — Get On Board
• Joel Ross — The Parable of the Poet
• Miles Okazaki's Trickster Quartet — Thisness
• Albert Ayler — Revelations
• Vince Staples — Ramona Park Broke My Heart
• Omar Apollo — Ivory
• Bonnie Raitt — Just Like That...
• The Linda Lindas — Growing Up
• Wet Leg — Wet Leg

New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 29 Apr 29, 2022

The week's best new albums include Toro y Moi's spectacular MAHAL, hard-hitting rap from the New Jersey hip-hop duo Dälek's Precipice, R&B singer Kehlani's blue water road and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Toro y Moi — MAHAL
Featured Tracks: "Magazine," "The Medium"
2. Girlpool — Forgiveness
Featured Track: "Nothing Gives Me Pleasure"
3. Dälek — Precipice
Featured Tracks: "Devotion (When I Cry The Wind Disappears)," "Boycott"
4. Kehlani — blue water road
Featured Tracks: "wish i never" and "wondering/wandering"
5. Let's Eat Grandma — Two Ribbons
Featured Tracks: "Watching You Go," "Strange Conversations"
6. Girl Ultra — El Sur
Featured Tracks: "Bombay," "Nade Que Hacer"
Other notable release for April 29:
Bloc Party — Alpha Games
Burnt Pink — Afterlife Dub
Congotronics International — Where's The One?
Corb Lund — Songs My Friends Wrote
Diane Coffee — With People
Ebi Soda — Honk If You're Sad
The Head and the Heart — Every Shade Of Blue
Kelly Lee Owens — LP8
Melody's Echo Chamber — Emotional Eternal
Miranda Lambert — Palomino
Röyksopp — Profound Mysteries
William Basinski & Janek Schaefer — ...On Reflection

New Mix: Phoebe Bridgers, Wilco, Quinn Christopherson, more Apr 26, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a live recording for the 20th anniversary of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, a new single from Phoebe Bridgers and more.
Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Lizzy McAlpine: "weird (ft. Laura Elliot)," from five seconds flat
2. Flasher: "Love Is Yours," from Love Is Yours
3. Fontaines D.C.: "Roman Holiday," from Skinty Fia
4. Phoebe Bridgers: "Sidelines" (Single for Hulu's Conversations with Friends)
5. Quinn Christopherson: "2005" (Single)
6. Wilco: "Reservations (Live at The Pageant, St. Louis, MO 7/23/02)," from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Deluxe Edition)

New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 22 Apr 22, 2022

The best albums out this week include It's Almost Dry from Pusha T, space rock from Spiritualized, a gorgeous ambient record from OHYUNG, a rediscovered Charles Mingus live recording and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Pusha T — It's Almost Dry
Featured Tracks "Let the Smokers Shine the Coupes," "Dreaming of the Past," "Just So You Remember," "I Pray For You"
2. Jorge Drexler — Tinta y Tiempo
Featured Tracks: "El Plan Maestro," "¡Oh, Algoritmo!"
3. Ben Marc — Glass Effect
Featured Track: "Way We Are"
4. Spiritualized — Everything Was Beautiful
Featured Tracks: "Always Together With You," "Crazy"
5. Charles Mingus — The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott's
Featured Track: "Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues"
6. OHYUNG — imagine naked!
Featured Track: "symphonies sweeping"
Other notable releases for April 22:
• Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet — Becca Stevens & Attacca Quartet
• Bill Evans — Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert at the Teatro General San Martín, Buenos Aires
• Bonnie Raitt — Just Like That...
• Charles Mingus — Mingus Three (Deluxe Edition)
• claire rousay — everything perfect is already here
• Fontaines D.C. — Skinty Fia
• Hatchie — Giving the World Away
• Jason Aldean — GEORGIA
• King Gizzard & the Wizard Lizard — Omnium Gatherum
• Mister Goblin — Bunny
• Patrick Watson — Better in the Shade
• Roger Eno — The Turning Year
• S. Carey — Break Me Open

New Mix: Pink Floyd, Patrick Watson, Sonny Singh, more Apr 19, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including a surprise return from Pink Floyd and uplifting songs from Sonny Singh, Patrick Watson and more.
Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Pink Floyd: "Hey, Hey, Rise Up (featuring Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Boombox)" (Single)
2. Sonny Singh: "Aisee Preet," from Chardi Kala
3. Tuba Skinny: "Trickster's Rag," from Magnolia Stroll
4. Charlie Hickey: "Dandelions," from Nervous At Night
5. Patrick Watson & La Force: "Height of the Feeling," from Better in the Shade
6. The Good Ones: "I Dream Someday To Have a Home," from Rwanda...You See Ghosts, I See Sky

New Music Friday: The Top 5 albums out on April 15 Apr 15, 2022

NPR Music picks the best new albums out this week, including new releases by Kaitlin Butts, Samora Pinderhughes, Mal Blum and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Kaitlin Butts — what else can she do
Featured Song: "it won't always be this way"
2. Samora Pinderhughes — GRIEF
Featured Song: "Masculinity"
3. Mal Blum — Ain't It Nice 
Featured Song: "Everybody Loves You"
4. Jerry Paper — Free Time
Featured Song: "Just Say Play"
5. Dave Brubeck Trio — Live From Vienna 1967
Featured Song: "St. Louis Blues"
Other notable releases for April 15:
• Joel Ross — The Parable of the Poet
• Flock of Dimes — Head of Roses (Phantom Limb
• Digga D — Noughty By Nature
• Kurt Vile — (watch my moves)
• Spanish Love Songs — Brave Faces, Etc.

New Mix: Joan Shelley, Craig Finn, Florist, more Apr 12, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including new ones from singer Joan Shelley, Florist, The Hold Steady's Craig Finn and more.
Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Florist: "Red Bird Pt. 2 (Morning)," from Florist
2. Joan Shelley: "The Spur," from The Spur
3. Sadurn: "snake," from Radiator
4. Dana Gavanski: "I Kiss The Night," from When It Comes
5. Craig Finn: "Messing With the Settings," from A Legacy of Rentals
6. dani mack: "Someday"
7. Medicine Singers: "Daybreak," from Medicine Singers

New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 8 Apr 08, 2022

It's a crazy-packed release day with new albums from Camila Cabello, Omar Apollo, an all-star collaboration with Wiz Khalifa, Big K.R.I.T., Girl Talk and Smoke DZA, Syd's Broken Hearts Club and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Omar Apollo — Ivory
Featured Songs: "Talk," "En El Ovido"
2. Syd — Broken Hearts Club
Featured Song: "BMHWDY"
3. Girl Talk, Big K.R.I.T., Wiz Khalifa, Smoke DZA — Full Court Press
Featured Song: "Fly the Coop"
4. Camila Cabello — Familia
Featured Song: "Psychofreak"
5. BANKS — Serpentina
Featured Song: "Meteorite"
Other notable releases for April 8:
Calexico — El Mirador
Coi Leray — Trendsetter
Deer Scout — Woodpecker
Father John Misty — Chloe and the Next 20th Century
Fivio Foreign — B.I.B.L.E.
Hiatus Kaiyote — Mood Variant (The Remixes)
Jack White — Fear of the Dawn
Johnnyswim — Johnnyswim
Kae Tempest — The Line Is A Curve
The Linda Lindas — Growing Up
Orville Peck — Bronco
Son Lux — Everything Everywhere All At Once (OST)
Vince Staples — Ramona Park Broke My Heart
Wet Leg — Wet Leg

The Best Music of March Apr 04, 2022

March's best new music includes Kilo Kish's pop treatise on this game called life, Jenny Hval's philosophy on art-making, Soul Glo's punk rage and more.
Featured Music:
1. Kilo Kish: "DISTRACTIONS III: SPOILED ROTTEN" from AMERICAN GURL
2. Jenny Hval: "American Coffee" from Classic Objects
3. Soul Glo: "Jump! (Or Get Jumped!!!) ((by the future))" from Diaspora Problems
4. rusowsky, "pikito"
5. Jóhann Jóhannsson: "The Mountain View, the Majesty of the Snow-Clad Peaks, from a Place of Contemplation and Reflection" from Drone Mass
Other notable releases for March:
• Lous and The Yakuza, "Kisé"
• Cécile McLorin Salvant — Ghost Song
• Charli XCX — Crash
• Rosalia — MOTOMAMI
• Emmanuelle Parrenin — Targala, la maison qui n'en est pas une

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on April 1 Apr 01, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from the Bronx rapper T-Shyne, Sondre Lerche, the Canadian pop singer known as LIGHTS and more.
Featured Albums:
1. T-Shyne — Confetti Nights
Featured Track: "Feed the Fam"
2. Pillow Queens — Leave the Light On
Featured Track: "Be By Your Side"
3. Sondre Lerche — Avatars of Love
Featured Track: "Summer in Reverse"
4. LIGHTS — PEP
Featured Track: "Money in the Bag"
5. GGGOLDDD — This Shame Should Not Be Mine
Featured Track: "Spring"
Other notable releases for April 1:
Big Cheeko — Block Barry White
Carpenter Brut — Leather Terror
Christian Lee Hutson — Quitters
Duster — Together
Field Works — Stations
Meshuggah — Immutable
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway — Crooked Tree
Night Palace — Diving Rings
PUP — THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Unlimited Love

Records That Changed Our Lives: Finding hope in Tracy Chapman and 'Brand New Eyes' Mar 30, 2022

What record changed your life? NPR Music's Turning the Tables, which challenges sexism in the pop music canon, asked writers that question. Every week in March, we're diving into their answers.

New Mix: Angel Olsen, Perfume Genius, Soccer Mommy, more Mar 29, 2022

All Songs host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including songs of love from Angel Olsen and Soccer Mommy, a new one from the upcoming Perfume Genius album Ugly Season and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Perfume Genius: "Pop Song," from Ugly Season
2. Zola Jesus: "Lost," from Arkhon
3. Arooj Aftab: "Udhero Na (feat. Anoushka Shankar)," from Vulture Prince (Deluxe Edition)
4. Angel Olsen: "All The Good Times," from Big Time
5. Saya Gray: "IF THERE'S NO SEAT IN THE SKY (WILL YOU FORGIVE ME???)," from 19 MASTERS
6. Soccer Mommy: "Shotgun," from Sometimes, Forever

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 25 Mar 25, 2022

Our picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from Nashville singer Maren Morris, the Jamaican rapper and singer Koffee, London's Afro-funk group Ibibio Sound Machine, Barrie and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Maren Morris — Humble Quest
Featured Tracks: "Humble Quest" and "Nervous"
2. Koffee — Gifted
Featured Track: "Shine"
3. Ornette Coleman — Genesis of Genius: The Contemporary Albums
Featured Track: "Lorraine"
4. Barrie — Barbara
Featured Track: "Jersey"
5. Ibibio Sound Machine — Electricity
Featured Tracks: "Protection from Evil" and "Truth No Lie"
Other notable releases for March 25:
Aldous Harding — Warm Chris
Buddy — Superghetto
Camp Cope — Running with the Hurricane
Denzel Curry — Melt My Eyez See Your Future
Destroyer — Labyrinthitis
Machine Gun Kelly — mainstream sellout
Rema — Rave & Roses
Walter Martin — The Bear

Records That Changed Our Lives: Defying Gatekeepers Mar 23, 2022

What record changed your life? NPR Music's Turning the Tables, which challenges sexism in the pop music canon, asked writers that question. Every week in March, we're diving into their answers.

New Mix: Arcade Fire, Valerie June, The Smile, Andrew Bird, more Mar 22, 2022

All Songs host Bob Boilen's mix this week includes the joy of Valerie June, a new project from Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, with Sons Of Kemet's Tom Skinner, called The Smile, and more.
Featured Tracks and Artists:
1. Brittany Davis: "I Choose to Live," from I Choose to Live EP
2. Valerie June: "Use Me" (Single)
3. Arcade Fire: "Lightning I, II," from WE
4. The Smile: "Skrting On the Surface" (Single)
5. Congotronics International: "Where's The One?," from Where's The One?
6. Andrew Bird: "Atomized" (Single)
7. Typhoon: "New Wife," from Underground Complex EP

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 18 Mar 18, 2022

Two of the year's most anticipated albums — Rosalía's MOTOMAMI and Charli XCX's CRASH — drop today, along with Johann Johannsson's posthumous Drone Mass, Yumi Zouma's Present Tense and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Rosalía — MOTOMAMI
Featured tracks: "CUUUUuuuuuute," "BULERÍAS," "SAOKO"
2. Jóhann Jóhannsson — Drone Mass
Featured tracks: "Two is Apocryphal," "Take the Night Air"
3. Raw Poetic & Damu The Fudgemunk — Laminated Skies
Featured Tracks: "Open Roads," "Chewing Gum"
4. Charli XCX — CRASH
Featured Tracks: "Crash," "Yuck"
5. Yumi Zouma — Present Tense
Featured Track: "Astral Projections"
Other notable releases for March 18:
Bladee & Ecco2K — Crest
Broadcast — Microtronics, Mother is the Milky Way, Maida Vale Sessions
Cypress Hill — Back in Black
Mattiel — Georgia Gothic
Midlake — For the Sake of Bethel Woods
Ruth Slenczynska — My Life in Music
Sonic Youth — In/Out/In

Records That Changed Our Lives, Grown Woman Edition Mar 16, 2022

What record changed your life? NPR Music's Turning the Tables, which challenges sexism in the pop music canon, asked writers that question. Every week in March, we're diving into their answers.

New Mix: Belle and Sebastian, Scout laRue Willis, Gang of Youths, More Mar 15, 2022

All Songs host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including some powerful story-songs, from a drug-filled fling to lies learned about a lost father, an underwater journey and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Curse Of Lono: "So Damned Beautiful (feat. Tess Parks)," from People In Cars
2. Gang of Youths: "you in everything," from angel in realtime
3. Belle and Sebastian: "Unnecessary Drama," from A Bit of Previous
4. Niia: "Forward," from OFFAIR:Mouthful of Salt
5. Deer Scout: "Peace with the Damage," from Woodpecker
6. Scout laRue Willis: "Shouldn't I Be" (Single)

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 11 Mar 11, 2022

Our shortlist for the best albums out this week includes Rex Orange County's WHO CARES?, the immediately transfixing Getaway from singer Orion Sun, the genre-hopping sounds of Jenny Hval and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Orion Sun — Getaway
Featured Tracks: "intro" and "without you"
2. Rex Orange County — WHO CARES?
Featured Tracks: "SHOOT ME DOWN" and "KEEP IT UP"
3. Fly Anakin — Frank
Featured Tracks: "Love Song (Come Back)" and "Bread"
4. Jenny Hval — Classic Objects
Featured Track: "Cemetery of Splendor"
5. Irma Thomas — Full Time Woman, The Lost Cotillion Album (on vinyl)
Featured Track: "Adam and Eve"
Other notable releases for March 11:
Alex Cameron — Oxy Music
Benny the Butcher — Tana Talk 4
The Boo Radleys — Keep On With Falling
BOYO — Echoes Like Memories
Drug Church — Hygiene
Fatboi Sharif & LoneSword — Cyber City Society
Loop — Sonancy
Lucky Daye — CANDYDRIP

Records That Changed Our Lives, Teen Edition: 'Tidal,' 'Blacks' Magic,' Beyoncé's '4' Mar 09, 2022

What record changed your life? NPR Music's Turning the Tables, which challenges sexism in the pop music canon, asked writers that question. Every week in March, we're diving into their answers.

New Mix: Regina Spektor, a Son Lux collaboration with David Byrne and Mitski, more Mar 08, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Mitski, David Byrne and Son Lux, the return of Regina Spektor and more.
Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Son Lux, Mitski, David Byrne: "This Is A Life," from Everything Everywhere All At Once
2. Regina Spektor: "Becoming All Alone," from Home, before and after
3. Suz Slezak: "Loneliness Is Measured," from Our Wings May Be Featherless
4. Kevin Morby: "This Is A Photograph," from This Is A Photograph
5. Sharon Van Etten: "Used To It" (Single)
6. Superorganism: "Teenager (feat. CHAI & Pi Ja Ma)," from World Wide Pop

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 4 Mar 04, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Belgian singer and rapper Stromae's first new music in nearly a decade, the blood-slowing sounds of The Weather Station and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Stromae — Multitude
Featured Tracks: "L'enfer," "Santé" and "Déclaration"
2. Nilüfer Yanya — Painless
Featured Tracks: "the dealer," "L/R" and "midnight sun"
3. RZA & DJ Scratch — Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater
Featured Track: "Pugilism"
4. Kojey Radical — Reason to Smile
Featured Track: "Silk"
5. The Weather Station — How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars?
Featured Track: "Ignorance"
Other notable releases for March 4:
Band of Horses — Things Are Great
Cécile McLorin Salvant — Ghost Song
Dolly Parton — Run, Rose, Run
Jordan Rakei — Bruises
KAINA — It Was A Home
Madi Diaz — Same History, New Feelings
Peach Pit — From 2 to 3
Roy Montgomery — Audiotherapy
Tom Caruana — Strange Planet

Records That Changed Our Lives: How Kate Bush and Yoko Ono challenged us Mar 02, 2022

What record changed your life? NPR Music's Turning the Tables, which challenges sexism in the pop music canon, asked writers that question. Every week in March, we're diving into their answers.

A Punjabi space epic and a laid-back throwback — NPR's favorite music of February Mar 01, 2022

February's best new music includes a double album by Big Thief, Raveena's ambitious sophomore effort, Pusha T's old-school polish, Joyce DiDonato's wordless wondering and caroline's calming, crazy quilt of sound.
Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Featured songs: "Spud Infinity" and "Dried Roses"
2. Raveena — Asha's Awakening
Featured song: "Mystery"
3. Pusha T, "Diet Coke"
4. Joyce DiDonato — EDEN
Featured song: "The Unanswered Question"
5. caroline — caroline
Featured song: "Dark blue"
Other notable releases for February:
• Hurray for the Riff Raff — LIFE ON EARTH
• Mitski -- Laurel Hell
• Erin Rae — Lighten Up
• Chris Farren — Death Don't Wait (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• Los Bitchos — Let the Festivities Begin!
• Saba — Few Good Things

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Feb. 25 Feb 25, 2022

Robert Glasper returns this week with Black Radio III, the latest in his ongoing fusion of jazz, rap, hip-hop and R&B. Other notable albums this week include new ones from SASMI, EARTHGANG and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Robert Glasper — Black Radio III
Featured Tracks: "Why We Speak" and "In Tune"
2. SASAMI — Squeeze
Featured Track: "Say It"
3. Sevdaliza — Raving Dahlia
Featured Track: "Everything Is Everything"
4. EARTHGANG — Ghetto Gods
Featured Track — "Amen"
5. Emily Wells — Regards to the End
Featured Tracks: "All Burn, No Bridge" and "David's Got A Problem"
Other notable releases for Feb. 25:
Aspidistrafly — Altar of Dreams
Avishai Cohen — Naked Truth
Avril Lavigne — Love Sux
Bambara — Love on My Mind
Basia Bulat — The Garden
caroline — caroline
Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few: "Lift Every Voice" (single)
King Hannah — I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me
Superchunk — Wild Loneliness
Tears for Fears — The Tipping Point

New Mix: Sevdaliza, Porridge Radio, Fantastic Negrito, more Feb 22, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks this week, including the "femmenoid" sounds of Sevdaliza, Tiny Desk contest winner Fantastic Negrito Porridge Radio and more.
Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Porridge Radio: "Back To The Radio," From Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky
2. Sevdaliza: "High Alone," From Raving Dahlia (EP)
3. Fantastic Negrito: "Highest Bidder," From White Jesus Black Problems
4. Daniel Rossen: "Unpeopled Space," From You Belong There
5. Roedelius & Story: "Nurzu," From 4 Hands
6. Charbonneau / Amato: "Évaporations," From Synth Works Vol. 2

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Feb. 18 Feb 18, 2022

The week's best new music includes the deep grooves and heady soul of Khruangbin and Leon Bridges, an epic tale in sound from Beach House, the return of queer country pioneers Lavender Country and more.
Featured Albums
1. Khruangbin & Leon Bridges — Texas Moon
Featured songs: "B-Side" and "Doris"
2. Beach House — Once Twice Melody
Featured song: "Modern Love Stories"
3. Hurray for the Riff Raff — LIFE ON EARTH
Featured song: "POINTED AT THE SUN"
4. Kendra Morris — Nine Lives
Featured song: "Dry"
5. Lavender Country — Blackberry Rose
Featured song: "All Disillusions Behind"
Other notable releases for Feb. 18:
Anwar HighSign — Live N*gga Prophecy
Big K.R.I.T. — Digital Roses Don't Die
MAITA — I Just Want to Be Wild For You
Metronomy — Small World
Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee — Bamanan
Sally Shapiro — Sad Cities
The Shout Out Louds — House
Shovels & Rope — Manticore
Tennyson — Rot

New Mix: The Suffers, S. Carey, Lady Dan, more Feb 15, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music editor Hazel Cills share their favorite new tracks of the week, including the soulful sounds of The Suffers, the frenetic electronica of Whatever The Weather and more.
Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Lady Dan: "Not In Love" (Single)
2. Maria BC: "The Only Thing," from Hyaline
3. Maylee Todd: "Show Me," from Maloo
4. Whatever The Weather: "17°C," from Whatever The Weather
5. S. Carey: "Break Me Open," from Break Me Open
6. Yungchen Lhamo: "Awakening," from Awakening
7. The Suffers: "How Do We Heal (ft. Bryce The Third and Son Little" (Single)

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Feb. 11 Feb 11, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the week's best albums include Mary J. Blige's Good Morning Gorgeous, the sonic wonders of alt-j, spiritual guidance from Raveena, a new solo record from Eddie Vedder and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Mary J. Blige — Good Morning Gorgeous
Featured Track: "On Top"
2. alt-J — The Dream
Featured Track: "Bane"
3. Raveena — Asha's Awakening
Featured Tracks: "Kathy Left 4 Khatmandu" and "The Internet Is Like Eating Plastic"
4. Shamir — Heterosexuality
Featured Track: "Caught Up"
5. Eddie Vedder — Earthling
Featured Track: "Power of Right"
Other notable releases for Feb. 11:
Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Buke and Gase & Rahrah Gabor — Buke and Gase & Rahrah Gabor
Claire Rousay & More Eaze — Never Stop Texting Me
Empath — Visitor
Frank Turner - FTHC
Joss Stone — Never Forget My Love
Moonchild — Starfruit
Priscilla Block — Welcome to the Block Party
Spoon — Lucifer on the Sofa
Trupa Trupa — B Flat A
Voivod — Synchro Anarchy
Zeal & Ardor — Zeal & Ardor

A conversation with Questlove on his 'Summer of Soul' soundtrack Feb 10, 2022

In this special episode, our friends at the It's Been A Minute podcast talk with musician and filmmaker Questlove about the recently released soundtrack to his 2001 documentary Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). Host Sam Sanders chats with Questlove about the long history of Black erasure and the memorable performances from The 5th Dimension, Stevie Wonder (playing the drums!), Mavis Staples, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone and many more.

New Mix: Lucy Dacus, illuminati hotties, Madi Diaz with Waxahatchee, more Feb 08, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a collaboration between Madi Diaz and Waxahatchee, "Kissing Lessons" from Lucy Dacus and more.
Featured Artist and Songs:
1. Lucy Dacus: "Kissing Lessons" (Single)
2. Madi Diaz w/ Waxahatchee: "Resentment (New Feelings Version)" (Single)
3. illuminati hotties: "Sandwich Sharer" (Single)
4. Luna Li (ft. beabadoobee): "Silver Into Rain," from Duality
5. River Whyless: "Heaven and Light," from Monoflora
6. Norma Waterson: "Bright Shiny Morning," from Bright Shiny Morning

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Feb. 4 Feb 04, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the final trap album from Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz, '80s-flavored pop from Mitski, Animal Collective's return to form and more.
Featured Albums:
1. 2 Chainz — Dope Don't Sell Itself
Featured tracks: "10 Bracelets" and "Million Dollars Worth Of Game"
2. Mitski — Laurel Hell
Featured track: "Stay Soft"
3. Animal Collective — Time Skiffs
Featured track: "Strung With Everything"
4. Saba — Few Good Things
Featured tracks: "Survivor's Guilt" and "2012"
5. Erin Rae — Lighten Up
Featured track: "California Belongs to You"
Other notable releases for Feb. 4:
Black Country, New Road — Ants From Up There
Cate Le Bon — Pompeii
Lord Kayso — More Chores
Los Bitchos — Let The Festivities Begin!
The Reds, Pinks and Purples — Summer at Land's End
Tank — R&B MONEY

A (deep) conversation with Elvis Costello Feb 01, 2022

In a career-spanning interview, the singer reflects on his decades-long life in music, from his earliest childhood memories to the artists who shaped his work and what his own songs have meant to others.

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Jan. 28 Jan 28, 2022

The Summer of Soul soundtrack is finally here, along with a breathtaking debut from singer Amber Mark, a mind-bender from jazz saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Various — The Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Featured Song: "Don'tcha Hear Me Callin' to Ya?"
2. Lady Wray — Piece of Me
Featured Song: "Where Were You"
3. Samm Henshaw — Untidy Soul
Featured Songs: "Thoughts and Prayers," "Chicken Wings," "Keyon (Interlude)"
4. Amber Mark — Three Dimensions Deep
Featured Song: "One"
5. Immanuel Wilkins — The 7th Hand
Featured Song: "Don't Break"
Other notable releases for Jan. 28:
Anaïs Mitchell — Anaïs Mitchell
Babyface Ray — Face
Beirut — Artifacts
Greg Spero — The Chicago Experiment
St. Paul & The Broken Bones — Alien Coast

New Mix: PUP, Kaina, Uwade, More Jan 25, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music editor Marissa Lorusso share their favorite new music of the week, including the latest from PUP and the curious and beautiful sounds of Isik Kural.
Featured artists and tracks:
1. PUP: "Robot Writes A Love Song," from THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND
2. MAITA: "Loneliness," from I Just Want To Be Wild For You
3. KAINA: "Apple," from It Was a Home
4. Uwade: "Do You See The Light Around Me?" (Single)
5. Imarhan: "Achinkad," from Aboogi
6. Isik Kural: "paperhat," from in february

New Music Friday: The top 6 albums out on Jan. 21 Jan 21, 2022

Emo rapper and singer iann dior, pianist Simone Dinnerstein, Americana singer-songwriter Aoife O'Donovan and more land on this week's shortlist for the best new releases out on Jan. 21.
Featured Albums:
1. iann dior — on to better things
Featured Songs: "V12" and "hopeless romantic"
2. Che Noir — Food For Thought
Featured Song: "Communion"
3. Simone Dinnerstein — Undersong
Featured Songs: Erik Satie's "Gnossienne No. 3" and Philip Glass' "Mad Rush"
4. Aoife O'Donovan — Age of Apathy
Featured Song: "Sister Starling"
5. Jana Horn — Optimism
Featured Song: "Optimism"
6. Tanya Tagaq — Tongues
Featured Songs: "Earth Monster" and "Colonizer"
Other notable releases for Jan. 21:
Aurora - The Gods We Can Touch
Boris — W
Boy Harsher — The Runner (Original Soundtrack)
Jake Xerxes Fussell — Good and Green Again
Janis Ian — The Light at the End of the Line
Pedro the Lion — Havasu
Young T & Bugsey — Truth Be Told

New Mix: Shamir, Midlake, Anaïs Mitchell, Janis Ian, more Jan 19, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks, including one from Hadestown creator Anaïs Mitchell, Frank Turner's dream-inspired ode to his late friend, Scott Hutchison and more.
Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Frank Turner: "A Wave Across A Bay," from FTHC
2. Anaïs Mitchell: "On Your Way (Felix Song)," from Anaïs Mitchell
3. Janis Ian: "Better Times Will Come," from The Light at the End of the Line
4. Midlake: "Bethel Woods," from For The Sake of Bethel Woods
5. Shamir: "Reproductive," from Heterosexuality
6. Keeley Forsyth: "I Stand Alone," from Limbs

New Music Friday: The Top 6 Albums Out Jan. 14 Jan 14, 2022

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include FKA Twigs' CAPRISONGS, SICK! from Earl Sweatshirt, joyful singalongs from The Lumineers and more.
Featured Albums:
1. FKA Twigs — CAPRISONGS
Featured Songs: "papi bones" and "track girl interlude"
2. Earl Sweatshirt — SICK!
Featured Song: "God Laughs"
3. The Lumineers — Brightside
Featured Song: "Where We Are"
4. Bonobo — Fragments
Featured Song: "Rosewood"
5. Cordae — From A Birds Eye View
Featured Song: "Champagne Glasses"
6. Linying — There Could Be Wreckage Here
Featured Song: "Faith"
Other notable releases for Jan. 14: Blood Red Shoes — GHOSTS ON TAPE; Broken Social Scene — Old Dead Young; Cat Power — Covers; Elvis Costello and The Imposters — The Boy Named If.

New Mix: The Smile, Kae Tempest, Yard Act, More Jan 11, 2022

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, along with NPR Music's curator of the weird and loud, Lars Gotrich.
Featured Artists And Tracks:
1. Kae Tempest: "More Pressure," from The Line Is A Curve
2. Pigeon Pit: "Empties," from Feather River Canyon Blues
3. Souk: "Sooner or Later," from Souk Demo
4. Basia Bulat: "The Garden," from The Garden
5. Barrie: "Quarry," from Barbara
6. The Smile: "You Will Never Work In Television Again" (Single)
7. Yard Act: "Rich," from The Overload

Presenting: Pop Culture Happy Hour, on Spotify's corporate ad game, 'Wrapped' Dec 30, 2021

Our friends at NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast take a look Spotify's annual end-of-year event, and viral sensation, 'Wrapped.' In 2019 the service started pairing its year-end listening data with eye-catching and extremely shareable graphics. But, when the algorithm curates so much of our listening experience... are we just creating a perpetual feedback loop?

How Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan created Merge Records Dec 29, 2021

In this special episode from NPR's How I Built This with Guy Raz, Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan talk about how, as college students in the late '80s, they created one of the most influential indie labels of all time, Merge Records

The prophecies of Radiohead's 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac,' 20 years later Dec 28, 2021

Our friends at NPR's Throughline podcast take a deep dive into the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac, examining the ways the band confronted the monsters around us and within us at the dawn of a new millennium.

Viking's Choice 2021: Cassettes rule everything around me Dec 27, 2021

NPR Music's Lars Gotrich offers a tribute to the Peruvian punk, chiptuned black metal and Brazilian dub that soundtracked his home office in 2021, cranked on a trusty tape machine.
Music heard on this episode:
• Morbo: "En el cubil" from ¿A Quién Le Echamos La Culpa?
• Cara Neir: "Damnation" from Phase Out
• Felinto: "Chroma" from Futuro Antigo Perpétuo
• Wendy Eisenberg: "Don't move" from Bent Ring
• Lucy Liyou: "Uncle" from Practice
• Neo Geodesia: "Fanta Rouge" from 2562 Neon Flames
• Maraudeur: "TWYWYS" from Puissance 4
• Myriam Gendron: "C'est dans les vieux pays" from Ma délire - Songs of love, lost & found
• Bacon Grease: "What Do You Know" from The Slow Burn
• Znous: "El-Mansiette" from Znousland 3

Back to the cabin Dec 24, 2021

When we held our first holiday extravaganza in 2012 (at a snow-covered cabin in the woods), nearly all of the guests we'd invited canceled. For 2019, we decided to return to the cozy cabin where it all began. What could possibly go wrong?

A holiday cruise Dec 23, 2021

From 2018, hosts Bob and Robin decide to get away from it all with a holiday cruise to Bermuda. But nature inevitably runs its course and the gang finds itself stuck in the swirling vortex of the mystical Bermuda Triangle, desperate for some sort of passage back home.

Journey to the North Pole Dec 22, 2021

In this holiday episode originally aired in 2016. Bob and Robin take a train ride to the North Pole in hopes of rediscovering the true spirit of the season. Along the way they meet some special friends, including Kacey Musgraves, Connor Oberst, Japanese Breakfast and more.

A holiday in space Dec 21, 2021

Through a series of unexpected events, we find ourselves hurtling through outer space, on an urgent musical mission. Join us as we take a rocket ride to the stars, grow homesick for the holidays, and find comfort from a few special guests and friends, including Angel Olsen, Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, our favorite spaceman (Dan Deacon, of course), and more. This episode originally aired in 2014.

A holiday party for the ages Dec 20, 2021

Originally aired in 2012, our first holiday special landed us at a remote cabin in the woods where we (trust us!) held a party for the ages. The guest list for our night of music and tall tales included Kishi Bashi, Dan Deacon, Carrie Brownstein, Nellie McKay and more.

How HBO's 'Insecure' changed the sound and scope of Black music Dec 17, 2021

The groundbreaking HBO series, which just ended a five-year run, provided a platform for showcasing great, unknown Black artists and recast expectations for what R&B, rap and hip-hop can be.

The best songs and albums we missed in 2021 Dec 15, 2021

Members of the NPR Music team share their personal picks for the best songs or albums from 2021 that didn't make our final lists.
1. dodie: "Hate Myself," from Build a Problem
2. Tōth: "Turnaround (Cocaine Song)," from You And Me And Everything
3. Flock of Dimes: "Price of Blue," from Head of Roses
4. Blu DeTiger: "Vintage," from How Did We Get Here?
5. doechii: "TRUTH," From Bra-Less
6. girl in red: "Did You Come?" from if i could make it go quiet
7. Moin: "Crappy Dreams Count," from Moot!
8. Limp Bizkit: "Dad Vibes," from STILL SUCKS
9. Madi Diaz: "Nervous," from History of a Feeling
10. Tré Burt: "Funny Story (Song for Eva)," from You, Yeah, You
11. Normani (feat. Cardi B): "Wild Side" (Single)
12. Sarah Kinsley: "The King," from The King (EP)
13. NIKARA: "Thick Girls," from NIKARA presents Black Wall Street
14. Draco Rosa: "El Amor de Borikén," from Sound Healing 1:11
15. Morgen Wurde feat. Maria Estrella: "Weiht," from Pop Ambient 2022

Presenting: Alt.Latino's picks for the best singles of 2021 Dec 12, 2021

On this special episode, the Alt.Latino team discusses the best Latin music singles of 2021.

Poll results: NPR listeners pick the top albums of 2021 Dec 10, 2021

See what our listeners picked as the top 20 albums released in 2021.

Presenting: Alt.Latino's look back at the best albums of 2021 Dec 05, 2021

Each year NPR's Alt.Latino crew parses through hundreds of new Latin music releases in the hopes of finding the best of the genre. On this episode they share just a few of their favorites that stood out in 2021.

Lil Nas X on 'MONTERO,' NPR Music's song of the year Dec 03, 2021

A conversation with the singer, rapper, social-media sensation, and fashion icon about his groundbreaking pop banger "MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)."

Jazmine Sullivan unspools her 'Heaux Tales,' NPR Music's album of the year Dec 01, 2021

The singer reveals the stories and inspiration behind her breathtaking album. Released in January, Heaux Tales held our gaze throughout the year, becoming NPR Music's pick for the best album of 2021.

New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Nov. 26 Nov 26, 2021

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson's new film Licorice Pizza, Turkish funk from El Michels Affair, Julie Doiron and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Various — Licorice Pizza
Featured Songs: "Peace Frog" (The Doors) and "Licorice Pizza" (Jonny Greenwood)
2. El Michels Affair — Abominable
Featured Song: "Cham Cham"
3. Julie Doiron — I Thought of You
Featured Song: "Cancel the Party"
4. Cynic — Ascension Codes
Featured Song: "Mythical Serpents"
5. Spectacular Diagnostics — Ancient Methods
Featured Song: "The Wall"

New Mix: Beach House, Jasmyn, Mckenna Grace, more Nov 23, 2021

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new songs of the week including Beach House's "Once Twice Melody," "Haunted House" from the actress Mckenna Grace, Medium Build and more.
Featured Tracks:
1. Beach House: "Once Twice Melody," from Once Twice Melody
2. Medium Build: "Rabbit" (Single)
3. Semler: "Prodigal Girl," from Late Bloomer EP
4. Mckenna Grace: "Haunted House" (Single)
5. Jasmyn: "Find the Light" (Single)
6. Lizzy McAlpine: "doomsday" (Single)

New Music Friday: The top 7 albums out on Nov. 19 Nov 19, 2021

Adele's long-awaited 30 tops NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week, along with new ones from Snoop Dogg, Makaya McCraven, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Adele — 30
Featured track: "Oh My God"
2. Snoop Dogg — Algorithm
Featured tracks: "Big Subwoofer" and "Anxiety"
3. Makaya McCraven — Deciphering the Message
Featured track: "Black Rhythm Happening"
4. Ben LaMar Gay — Open Arms to Open Us
Featured track: "Aunt Lola and the Quail"
5. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss — Raise the Roof
Featured track: "Go Your Way"
6. Apollo Brown & Stalley — Blacklight
Featured track: "Breathe"
7. Coldcut — @0
Featured track: "Star Ray" (performed by Julianna Barwick)
Other notable releases for Nov. 19: Brian Wilson — At My Piano; Elbow — Flying Dream 1; Khemmis — Deceiver; Sting — The Bridge.

New Mix: Big Thief, Pinegrove, FACESOUL, Maia Friedman, more Nov 16, 2021

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new songs of the week, including a just-announced track from Big Thief, the London-based Somali artist known as FACESOUL, Pinegrove and more.
Featured Tracks:
1. Big Thief: "Time Escaping," from Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
2. Maia Friedman: "Where the Rocks Are," from Under the New Light
3. Mirrors: "Una Rosa," from Mirrors
4. Pinegrove: "Alaska," from 11-11
5. Why Bonnie: "Galveston" (Single)
6. FACESOUL: "The Path," from YSRA

New Music Friday: The top 6 albums out on Nov. 12 Nov 12, 2021

The Bruno Mars-Anderson .Paak collab as Silk Sonic tops NPR Music's shortlist of the best albums out this week, along with new ones from Courtney Barnett, Aesop Rock, Jon Hopkins and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Silk Sonic — An Evening with Silk Sonic
Featured Songs: "Fly As Me" and "Blast Off"
2. Atarashii Gakko — Snacktime!
Featured Song: "Free Your Mind"
3. Jon Hopkins — Music for Psychedelic Therapy
Featured Songs: "Love Flows over Us in Prismatic Waves" and "Sit Around the Fire"
4. Courtney Barnett — Things Take Time, Take Time
Featured Song: "Turning Green"
5. Aesop Rock & Blockhead — Garbology
Featured Song: "The Sea"
6. Joell Ortiz — Autograph
Featured Songs: "Uncle Chris Car" and "OG"
Other notable releases for Nov. 12: Bill Charlap — Street of Dreams; IDLES — Crawler; Nirvana — Nevermind (30th Anniversary Super Deluxe); Taylor Swift — Red (Taylor's Version); They Might Be Giants — Book.

New Mix: Jónsi, Julie Doiron, Rokia Koné, David Keenan, more Nov 09, 2021

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including the stunning voice of West African singer Rokia Koné, new solo work from Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi and more.
Featured Tracks:
1. Julie Doiron: "You Gave Me The Key," from I Thought Of You
2. Cola: "Blank Curtain" (Single)
3. David Keenan: "What Then Cried Jo Soap," from WHAT THEN?
4. Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee: "N'yanyan," from BAMANAN
5. Jónsi: "Pyralone," from Obsidian
6. Sóley: "Desert," from Mother Melancholia

New Music Friday: The top 8 albums out on Nov. 5 Nov 05, 2021

NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week include ones from the Portland rapper Aminé, Snail Mail, composer and saxophonist Terrace Martin, the string ensemble Attacca Quartet and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Aminé — TWOPOINTFIVE
Featured Song: "OKWME"
2. Attacca Quartet — Of All Joys
Featured Songs: "Mishima, 1957: Award Montage," "Miserere," "Fratres"
3. Tasha — Tell Me What You Miss The Most
Featured Song: "Bed Song 1"
4. Snail Mail — Valentine
Featured Song: "Mia"
5. Terrace Martin — Drones
Featured Song: "Leave Us Be"
6. Sloppy Jane — Madison
Featured Songs: "Judy's Bedroom," "Overture" and "Lullaby Formica"
7. Curtis Harding — If Words Were Flowers
Featured Song: "Hopeful"
8. Remy Le Boeuf — Architecture of Storms
Featured Song: "The Melancholy Architecture of Storms"
Other notable releases for Nov. 5: ABBA — Voyage; Diana Ross — Thank You; Hana Vu — Public Storage; Joan As Police Woman — The Solution is Restless; Radiohead — Kid A Mnesia; serpentwithfeet — DEACON'S GROVE; Summer Walker — Still Over It.

The Best Music of October: NPR Staff Picks Nov 01, 2021

Every month, we ask the NPR Music staff: What's the one song you couldn't escape? What's the one album to which you'll return all year? In October, we fell far into the music of Helado Negro and Jordan Peters, screamed along to Illuminati Hotties and Cerce, and meditated on the voices of Buffalo Nichols and Emily D'Angelo.
Music featured on this episode:
• Buffalo Nichols: "Another Man" from Buffalo Nichols
• Jordan Peters, "Float (feat. Obed Calvaire)"
• Emily D'Angelo: "Nausicaa" from enargeia
• Helado Negro: "Aguas Frías" from Far In
• Illuminati Hotties: "MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA" from Let Me Do One More
• Cerce: "Fate" from Cowboy Music
Follow the #NowPlaying blog for the NPR Music staff's favorite new songs.

New Music Friday: The top 10 albums out on Oct. 29 Oct 29, 2021

NPR Music picks the best new albums out this week, including new releases by Tori Amos, Mick Jenkins, Mon Laferte, The War on Drugs and more.
Featured Albums
1. The War on Drugs — I Don't Live Here Anymore
Featured Song: "Change"
2. Mick Jenkins — Elephant in the Room
Featured Song: "Stiff Arm"
3. Tori Amos — Ocean to Ocean
Featured Song: "Speaking With Trees"
4. Emily Scott Robinson — American Siren
Featured Song: "Let 'Em Burn"
5. Lily Konigsberg — Lily We Need to Talk Now
Featured Song: "Alone"
6. Eris Drew — Quivering in Time
Featured Song: "Show U Love"
7. Mon Laferte — 1940 Carmen
Featured Song: "Algo Es Mejor"
8. Theon Cross — Intra-I
Featured Song: "40Tude"
9. Lilli Lewis — Americana
Featured Song: "Wrecking Ball"
10. Johnathan Blake — Homeward Bound
Featured Song: "Homeward Bound (For Ana Grace)"
Other notable releases for October 29:Ed Sheeran — =; Migos — Culture III; Jónsi — Obsidian; Death Cab for Cutie — The Photo Album (20th Anniversary Edition); R.E.M. — New Adventures in Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition); Spice Girls — Spice (25th Anniversary Edition); Johnny Cash — Bear's Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968; Maya Jane Coles — Night Creature; They Might Be Giants — BOOK; Charlotte Cornfield — Highs in the Minuses; Hayes Carll — You Get It All; Sam Evian — Time to Melt; Marissa Nadler — The Path of the Clouds; Mastodon — Hushed and Grim

New Mix: Quinn Christopherson, mehro, Anjimile, IDLES, more Oct 26, 2021

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a new one from Tiny Desk contest winner Quinn Christopherson, the English punk group IDLES and more.
Featured Tracks:
1. IDLES: "The Beachland Ballroom," from Crawler
2. Quinn Christopherson: "Bubblegum," from I Am Bubblegum (EP)
3. Anjimile: "Stranger" (Single)
4. mehro: "howling" (Single)
5. Anna Leone: "Still I Wait," from I've Felt All These Things
6. Scout LaRue Willis: "Love Without Possession"(Single)
7. Chloe Lilac: "19" (Single)

New Music Friday: The top 8 albums out on Oct. 22 Oct 22, 2021

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out today include new ones from the K-pop singer CL, rapper and producer Wale, a new project from Tricky called Lonely Guest, Grouper and more.
Featured Albums:
1. CL — ALPHA
Featured song: "Chuck"
2. Wale — Folarin II
Featured song: "Name Ring Bells"
3. Grouper — Shade
Featured song: "Pale Interior"
4. Helado Negro — Far In
Featured song: "Wake Up Tomorrow"
5. angel du$t — Yak: A Collection of Truck Songs
Featured song: "Love is the Greatest" and "All the Way Dumb"
6. Lonely Guest — Lonely Guest
Featured songs: "Atmosphere" and "Move Me"
7. John Forté — Vessels, Angels & Ancestors
Featured song: "88"
8. Circuit des Yeux — -io
Featured song: "Sculpting the Exodus"
Other notable releases for Oct. 22: Bedouine — Waysides; Jackson + Sellers — Breaking Point; John Coltrane — A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle; Lana Del Rey — Blue Banisters; My Morning Jacket — My Morning Jacket.

Let It Be? No, Let's Remix The Beatles Oct 19, 2021

Producer Giles Martin talks about a new 5-disc deluxe version of Let It Be, one of The Beatles' most complicated albums. Hear his remixed version of the album plus never-before-heard banter and outtakes.

Presenting 'It's Been A Minute': Pop music's 'Latin Explosion' of 1999 Oct 18, 2021

This is the third and final installment in a special series from NPR's 'It's Been A Minute' podcast looking at important moments in the history of pop-music crossover. On this episode, Sam and his guests look at the so-called "Latin Explosion" of the late 1990s and ask who this historic if calculated moment was actually for, and what were the business considerations behind it? And what does "Livin La Vida Loca" have to do with all of it? You'll find all that out and more in this episode.

New Music Friday: The top 6 albums out on Oct. 15 Oct 15, 2021

Atlanta rapper Young Thug's Punk, Coldplay's Music of the Spheres, solo debuts from Finneas, Remi Wolf and more are among NPR Music's picks for the week's best new albums.
Featured Albums:
1. Remi Wolf — Juno
Featured Song: "Anthony Kiedis"
2. Coldplay — Music of the Spheres
Featured Song: "People of the Pride"
3. Young Thug — Punk
Featured Song: "Tick Tock"
4. Joy Crookes — Skin
Song: "Poison"
5. Finneas — Optimist
Featured Song: "The Kids Are All Dying"
6. Pinkpantheress — to hell with it
Featured Song: "Noticed I cried"
Other notable releases for Oct. 15: The Beatles — Let It Be (50th Anniversary Ed.); Dos Santos — City of Mirrors; Le Ren — Leftovers; Pokey LaFarge — In the Blossom of Their Shade; Xenia Rubinos — Una Rosa.

New Mix: Mitski, Cate Le Bon, Big Thief, Shamir, more Oct 13, 2021

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new music of the week, including a reflection on the cost of fame from Mitski, Shamir's "Gay Agenda," sweet "Change" from Big Thief and more.
Featured Tracks And Artists:
1. Mitski: "Working for the Knife" (Single)
2. Cate Le Bon: "Running Away," from Pompeii
3. Big Thief: "Change," from Change EP
4. Doran: "Old Moon," from Doran
5. Kevin Morby & Hamilton Leithauser: "Virginia Beach" (Single)
6. Shamir: "Gay Agenda" (Single)

Presenting 'It's Been A Minute': Reassessing Janet Jackson's 'Control' and legacy Oct 11, 2021

This year marks the 35th anniversary of Janet Jackson's Control. That album was her first real commercial hit and, looking back, helped redefine all of pop music. In the late '80s and '90s, Jackson was one of the biggest stars of our time — right up there with her brother, Michael and Madonna. And yet, Jackson isn't always given her due. In this special episode from NPR's It's Been A Minute podcast, host Sam Sanders explores why that is, how she made the album Control, and the incident — that lasted all but a second — that changed the course of her career.

New Music Friday: The top 10 albums out on Oct. 8 Oct 08, 2021

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include James Blake's Friends That Break Your Heart, new ones from Cimafunk, the underground hip-hop duo Atmosphere, Reba McEntire, and more.
Featured Albums:
1. James Blake — Friends That Break Your Heart
Featured Songs: "Foot Forward" and "Frozen"
2. BadBadNotGood — Talk Memory
Featured Song: "Beside April"
3. Susana Baca — Palabras Urgentes
Featured Song: "Cambalache"
4. Natalie Hemby — Pins and Needles
Featured Song: "Banshee"
5. Various — Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows Vol. 2 (John Prine tribute album)
Featured Song: "Summer's End" (Performed by Valerie June)
6. Cimafunk — El Alimento
Featured Song: "Sal De Lo Malo"
7. Various — It's A Good, Good Feeling: The Latin Soul of Fania Records
Featured Song: "Soul Drummers" (Performed by Ray Baretto)
8. Joshua Crumbly — ForEver
Featured Song: "KOLKATA"
9. Atmosphere — WORD?
Featured Song: "Fleetwood"
10. Reba McEntire — Revived, Remixed, Revisited
Featured Song: "Fancy"

Presenting 'It's Been A Minute': The Lasting Legacy Of 'Soul Train' Oct 06, 2021

Fifty years ago this month, the TV show Soul Train was first broadcast nationally. It brought Black music, dance, fashion and performance into viewers' homes every weekend and continued for more than 30 years. There was nothing like it on TV, and all these years later, there's been nothing like it since. On this special episode from the NPR podcast, It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders, we look at the lasting impact of Soul Train and why it mattered.

The Best Music of September: NPR Staff Picks Oct 04, 2021

Every month, we ask the NPR Music staff: What's the one song you couldn't escape? What's the one album to which you'll return all year?
Songs featured in this episode:
• Ada Lea: "hurt" from one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden
• MUNA (Feat. Phoebe Bridgers), "Silk Chiffon"
• Little Simz: "Standing Ovation" from Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
• Mon Laferte: "Nothing Else Matters" from The Metallica Blacklist
• Sun-El Musician (Feat. Simmy), "Higher"
• Jon Hopkins: "Sit Around the Fire (Feat. Ram Dass & East Forest)" from Music for Psychedelic Therapy
Follow the #NowPlaying blog for the NPR Music staff's favorite new songs.

New Music Friday: The top 7 albums out on Oct. 1 Oct 01, 2021

NPR Music's picks for the best new releases out this week include the long-awaited studio album from Philly rapper Meek Mill, a stunning record from Brandi Carlile, country singer Miko Marks and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Meek Mill — Expensive Pain
Featured Song: "Blue Notes 2"
2. Brandi Carlile — In These Silent Days
Featured Song: "Broken Horses"
3. Ben Marc — Breathe Suite
Featured Song: "Breathe Suite A"
4. Tirzah — Colourgrade
Featured Song: "Hive Mind"
5. Illuminati Hotties — Let Me Do One More
Featured Song: "Knead"
6. Shad — Tao
Featured Song: "Black Averageness"
7. Miko Marks — Race Records
Featured Song: "Hard Times"
Other notable releases for Oct. 1: Dar Williams — I'll Meet You Here; Hovvdy — True Love; Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett — Love For Sale; Strand of Oaks — In Heaven.

New Mix: Le Ren, Wet Leg, Ustad Saami, NoSo, More Sep 29, 2021

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen's favorite new songs of the week include the funny, uplifting music of Wet Leg, a prayer for peace from 77-year-old Pakistani artist Ustad Saami and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Wet Leg: "Wet Dream" (Single)
2. NoSo: "Suburbia" (Single)
3. Nynke Laverman: "Stoarm" from Plant
4. Nora Brown: "The Very Day I'm Gone" from Sidetrack My Engine
5. Jane Fontana: "Untitled, No. 1" from In Situ EP
6. Grace Cummings: "Heaven" from Storm Queen
7. Le Ren: "I Already Love You" from Leftovers
8. Ustad Saami: "Prayer for Peace" from east Pakistan sky

New Music Friday: The Top 8 Albums Out On Sept. 24 Sep 24, 2021

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new ones from R&B singer Anthony Hamilton, a Sufjan Stevens collaboration with Angelo De Augustine, country singer Mickey Guyton and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Anthony Hamilton — Love is the New Black
Featured Song: "Love Is The New Black"
2. Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine — A Beginner's Mind
Featured Song: "Lady Macbeth In Chains"
3. Kari Faux — Lowkey Superstar Deluxe
Featured Song: "While God Was Sleeping"
4. Hayden Pedigo — Letting Go
Featured Song: "Some Kind of Shepherd"
5. Mickey Guyton — Remember Her Name
Featured Song: "Different"
6. Solemn Brigham — South Sinner Street
Featured Songs: "Keep The Hope" and "Vice North"
7. Japanese Breakfast — Sable
Featured Songs: "Glider" and "Cartographer's Theme"
8. Ada Lea — One Hand on the Steering Wheel The Other Sewing A Garden
Featured Song: "Oranges"
Other notable releases for Sept. 24: Alessia Cara — In The Meantime; Andy Shauf — Wilds; Arturo O'Farrill — Dreaming in Lions; Caleb Landry Jones — Gadzooks Vol. 1; Laura Jane Grace — At War With Silverfish; NAO — And Then Life Was Beautiful; Poppy — Flux.

New Mix: alt-J, Loney Dear, Amythyst Kiah, Bnny, More Sep 22, 2021

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new songs of the week, including a new one from the Leeds rock band alt-J, Swedish singer-songwriter Loney Dear, Amythyst Kiah and more.
Featured Artists And Songs:
1. alt-J: "U&ME," from The Dream
2. Hyd: "Skin 2 Skin," from Hyd (EP)
3. Amythyst Kiah: "Black Myself (Moby Remix)" (Single)
4. La Luz: "Lazy Eyes and Dune," from La Luz
5. Bnny: "Sure," from Everything
6. Loney Dear: "Go Easy On Me Now (Sirens + emergencies)," from A Lantern and a Bell

Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf: Meet Our Winner Sep 20, 2021

In the seventh and final episode of Top Shelf, hear from the 2021 Tiny Desk Contest winner, Neffy: a rising singer-songwriter from Arlington, Va., with a breathtaking, soulful, inimitable voice.

New Music Friday: The Top 8 Albums Out On Sept. 17 Sep 17, 2021

The debut album from singer and rapper Lil Nas X tops our list of the week's best releases, along with the 25th anniversary of Buena Vista Social Club, new ones from José González, Carly Pearce and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Lil Nas X — Montero
Featured Song: "Dead Right Now"
2. Carly Pearce — 29: Written In Stone
Featured Song: "Diamondback"
3. Charley Crockett — Music City USA
Featured Song: "Honest Fight"
4. Adia Victoria — A Southern Gothic
Featured Song: "Troubled Mind"
5. Buena Vista Social Club — Buena Vista Social Club
Featured Songs: "Chan Chan" and "El Diablo Suelto"
6. José González — Local Valley
Featured Song: "Visions"
7. Sheila Jordan — Comes Love: Lost Session 1960
Featured Song: "Ballad of the Sad Young Men"
8. Moor Mother — Black Encyclopedia of the Air
Featured Song: "Vera Hall"
Other notable releases for Sept. 17: Bob Dylan — Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16; Cory Henry — Best of Me; James Vincent McMorrow — Grapefruit Season; Lindsey Buckingham — Lindsey Buckingham; Melissa Ethridge — One Way Out.

New Mix: Tiny Desk Contest Winner Neffy, Snail Mail, My Morning Jacket, More Sep 15, 2021

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including the Tiny Desk Contest-winning song from the singer, Neffy, new ones from Snail Mail, My Morning Jacket and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Neffy: "Wait Up" (Single)
2. Aisha Badru: "Rebirth," from The Way Back Home EP
3. Lily Konigsberg: "Sweat Forever," from Lily We Need To Talk Now
4. Sloppy Jane: "Party Anthem," from Madison
5. My Morning Jacket: "Love Love Love," from My Morning Jacket
6. Snail Mail: "Valentine," from Valentine

New Music Friday: The Top 11 Albums Out On Sept. 10 Sep 10, 2021

It's a packed release day, with new albums from the prince of reggaeton J Balvin, Kendrick Lamar collaborator and rising rapper Baby Keem, Kacey Musgraves, Andrew W.K. and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Common — A Beautiful Revolution Pt 2
Featured Song: "A Beautiful Chicago Kid"
2. Kacey Musgraves — Star-Crossed
Featured Songs: "Cherry Blossom" and "Gracias A La Vida"
3. J Balvin — JOSE
Featured Song: "La Familia"
4. Yebba — Dawn
Featured Song: "Boomerang"
5. Andrew W.K. — God Is Partying
Featured Songs: "Babalon" and "Goddess Partying"
6. AZ — Doe or Die II
Featured Song: "Check Me Out"
7. Park Hye Jin — Before I Die
Featured Song: "Me Trust Me"
8. Low — Hey What
Featured Song: "White Horses"
9. Deb Never — Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Featured Song: "Stupid"
10. Bomba Estéreo — Deja
Featured Song: "Agua"
11. Baby Keem — The Melodic Blue
Featured Song: "Range Brothers"
Other notable releases for Sept. 10: Heartless Bastards — A Beautiful Life; Matthew E. White — K Bay; Sleigh Bells — Texis; We Were Promised Jetpacks — Enjoy The View.

New Mix: Andy Shauf, 79rs Gang, Opium Moon, More Sep 08, 2021

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tunes of the week, including a profoundly moving reflection on Hurricane Katrina, a new story-song from Andy Shauf and more.
Featured Songs And Artists:
1. 79rs Gang: "Stop The Water" (Single)
2. Andrea von Kampen: "Water Flowing Downward," from That Spell
3. Opium Moon: "Night," from Night + Day
4. Claire Cronin: "Bloodless," from Bloodless
5. Andy Shauf: "Spanish On The Beach" (Single)
6. Marc Farre: "Prayer Flags," (Single)

New Music Friday: The Top 7 Albums Out On Sept. 3 Sep 03, 2021

Our picks for the best new albums out this week come from the British rapper LIttle Simz, jazz pianist Kirk Lightsey, rising reggaeton singer Jhay Cortez, metal veterans Iron Maiden and more.
Featured Albums:
1. Little Simz — Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Featured Songs: "Introvert" and "The Rapper That Came To Tea"
2. Jhay Cortez — Timelezz
Featured Song: "Los Bandoleros"
3. Kirk Lightsey — I Will Never Stop Loving You
Featured Song: "I Will Never Stop Loving You"
4. Iron Maiden — Senjutsu
Featured Song: "Days Of Future Past"
5. Lady Blackbird — Black Acid Soul
Featured Songs: "Five Feet Tall" and "Blackbird"
6. Baby Queen — The Yearbook
Featured Song: "Raw Thoughts"
7. L'Orange — The World Is Still Chaos, But I Feel Better
Featured Song: "Talk To Friendly Walls"
Other notable releases for Sept. 3: Damu The Fudgemunk — Conversation Peace; Imagine Dragons — Mercury, Act I; Lady Gaga — Dawn Of Chromatica (remix album)

The Best Music Of August: NPR Staff Picks Sep 01, 2021

Every month, we ask the NPR Music staff: What's the one song you couldn't escape? What's the one album to which you'll return all year? In August, we got vulnerable with James Blake, leveled up with Foxing, cooed with PinkPantheress, discovered an obscure Polish composer via pianist Lucas Debargue, memorialized a member of Injury Reserve and went back in time to Lee Morgan's weekend residency at the Lighthouse.
Songs heard on this episode:
• James Blake: "Life is Not the Same" from Friends That Break Your Heart
• Foxing: "Beacons" from Draw Down the Moon
• PinkPantheress, "Just for me"
• Lucas Debargue: "Nostalgie du pays" from Zal — The Music of Miłosz Magin
• Injury Reserve: "Knees" from By the Time I Get to Phoenix
• Lee Morgan: "Absolutions (Friday, Set 2)" from The Complete Live at the Lighthouse
Follow the #NowPlaying blog for the NPR Music staff's favorite new songs.

Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf: Our Favorite 2021 Entries, Episode 6 Aug 30, 2021

Before we announce this year's winner, we're asking our judges to share their favorite entries in a weekly livestreamed series. In this episode, last year's winner, Linda Diaz, shares her picks.

New Music Friday: The Top 8 Albums Out On Aug. 27 Aug 27, 2021

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out on Aug. 27 include new ones from CHVRCHES, Indigo De Souza, Terence Blanchard and more.
Featured Albums
1. CHVRCHES — Screen Violence
Featured Song: "Final Girl"
2. Madi Diaz — History Of A Feeling
Featured Song: "Woman In My Heart"
3. Chapel Hart — The Girls Are Back In Town
Featured Song: "You Can Have Him Jolene"
4. Tré Burt — You, Yeah, You
Featured Song: "Sweet Misery"
5. GRIP — I Died For This?!
Featured Song: "The Lox! (feat. Tate 228)"
6. Indigo De Souza — Any Shape You Take
Featured Song: "Way Out"
7. Terence Blanchard — Absence
Featured Song: "The Elders"
8. Andrew Cyrille Quartet — The News
Featured Song: "Go Happy Lucky"
Notable releases for Aug. 27: Halsey — If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power; Big Red Machine — How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?; Steve Gunn — Other You; Marisa Anderson & William Tyler — Lost Futures; The Bug — Fire; Yann Tiersen — Kerber; Mouse Rat — The Awesome Album; Nite Jewel — No Sun; Southern Avenue — Be The Love You Want; Carlos Henriquez — The South Bronx Story; Kenny Garrett — Sounds From The Ancestors

New Mix: Big Thief, George Harrison, Circuit Des Yeux, Hand Habits, More Aug 25, 2021

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite songs of the week, including a 50th anniversary edition of George Harrison's "Isn't It A Pity."
1. George Harrison: "Isn't It A Pity," from All Things Must Pass (50th Anniversary)
2. Immersion, (feat. Laetitia Sadier): "Riding The Wave," from Nanocluster Vol. 1
3. Circuit des Yeux: "Dogma," from -Io
4. Hand Habits: "Aquamarine," from Fun House
5. Coco: "Knots," from Coco
6. Big Thief: "Sparrow" (Single)

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