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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

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."

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

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'

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen and NPR Music's Lars Gotrich share their favorite new tracks including new music from the Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, the Swedish ambient rock artist SOLE and more.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Dorotheo: "Las Nubes," from Nada Escrito
2. Fatoumata Diawara: "Dambe," from London Ko
3. High Rise: "Outside Gentiles," from Dispersion
4. Anjimile: "The King," from The King
5. Laure Boer: "Lapin," from Les cit​é​s englouties
6. SOLE: "nous (feat. Chamoon)," from våra liv

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

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

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.

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.

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

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'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?

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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
Bebe Rexha — 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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including two surprising and wonderful collaborations.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Ólafur Arnalds (feat. Ella McRobb): "and we'll leave it there..." (Single)
2. The Antlers: "I Was Not There" (Single)
3. Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani: "Ta Nyé," from Les Égar​é​s
4. Lauren Early: "Good Girl Bad Boy," from Don't Take My Dream Away
5. Protomartyr: "Make Way," from Formal Growth In The Desert
6. Faten Kanaan: "Ebla," from Afterpoem

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On this year-end episode, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Bob Boilen around the globe to experience Vietnamese ambient, Chilean speed metal and auto-tune'd Ghanaian gospel music.

Featured Tracks and Artists:

• BKO: "Sadiona" from Djine Bora
• Cheba Wahida: "Jrouli Jrouli" from Jrouli
• Sơn FM: "Go Into the Mountains" from Points of Light (ST​๐​๐​๗​)
• Switchblade: "夜に踊る" from Blue Matter
• Romperayo: "El Borracho" from Así No Se Puede Muchaches
• La Colonie de Vacances: "L'amour universel" from ECHT
• No Home: "Emerald Green Mirror" from Young Professional
• Vórtize: "Mundo Bipolar" from ¡Tienes Que Luchar!
• Linda Ayupuka: "Yine Faamam" from God Created Everything

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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.