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Viking's Choice goes back to the future
2024/01/02
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Our resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, connects epic Japanese storytelling, soul-sampling powerviolence, ambient rap and beautiful noise through thematic webs of history and memory.
Featured Artists and Albums:
• Matmos: "Music or Noise?" from Return to Archive
• PoiL Ueda: "Kokô part 2" from Yoshitsune
• Mayssa Jallad: "Baynana" from Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels
• Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood: "For Ruth" from Tête-à-tête
• Zulu: "Lyfe Az a Shorty Shun B So Ruff" from A New Tomorrow
• Yungwebster: "Stay FOCUSSSS [fast+reg]" from Yungwebster
• Liis Ring: "after-image I: nothing stands still" from Homing
• Chuquimamani-Condori: "Breathing" from DJ E
• Sunwatchers: "World People" from Music Is Victory over Time
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Listeners share the songs that moved them the most in 2023
2023/12/26
We asked listeners to tell us about a song they ugly cried to or just couldn't stop playing in 2023. On this episode, we share some of their picks and the stories behind them.
Alt.Latino's favorite music of 2023
2023/12/20
While 2022 may have been a year completely dominated by a certain sad summer reggaeton album, 2023 drew its power from a set of familiar sounds that took on new prominence: tubas, accordions and a whole lot of lively, sneakily danceable beats.
The 2023 'All Songs Considered' holiday extravaganza
2023/12/19
Our annual celebration of the season returns with a trip back to the snowy cabin in the woods where it all began, as we attempt once again to throw a holiday party for the ages.
Regional Goes Global, Part 3: How a magical Mexican town keeps banda tradition alive
2023/12/15
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You know all those tubas and brass instruments you hear behind your favorite regional Mexican hits? That's banda sinaloense and this week Alt.Latino wraps up the Regional Goes Global series with a visit to Sinaloa, Mexico, the birthplace of the genre.
Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras visit the picturesque town Mocorito, a pueblo magico where tradition and pride in the musical heritage runs deep. That's the case even among members of the drug cartels, which are responsible for some of the country's societal ills. It's a complex story as passionate and heartfelt as the music that stretches from the hills of Sinaloa to this side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler, with production support from Lilly Quiroz, Suraya Mohamed, Josephine Nyounai and Natalia Fidelholtz. The editor for this episode is Jacob Ganz, and our project manager is Grace Chung. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
The best songs of 2023
2023/12/12
NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Sheldon Pearce join Alt.Latino 's Anamaria Sayre and host Robin Hilton to spin and discuss the best songs of the year, from Olivia Rodrigo, 100 gecs, Noname, J Noa and more.
Talking about the best albums of 2023
2023/12/05
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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
2023/11/29
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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
2023/11/28
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
2023/11/21
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
2023/11/17
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
2023/11/15
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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
2023/11/14
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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
2023/11/13
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
2023/11/10
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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
2023/11/07
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
2023/11/03
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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
2023/10/31
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
2023/10/27
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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
2023/10/24
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
2023/10/21
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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
2023/10/20
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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
2023/10/17
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
2023/10/13
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
2023/10/10
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
2023/10/06
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'
2023/10/02
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
2023/09/29
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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%'
2023/09/27
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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
2023/09/26
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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
2023/09/22
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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
2023/09/20
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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
2023/09/19
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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
2023/09/15
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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 — Diamonds Shakey 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
2023/09/13
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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
2023/09/12
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
2023/09/08
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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
2023/09/01
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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
2023/08/29
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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
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 25
2023/08/25
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
2023/08/23
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
2023/08/22
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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
2023/08/18
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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
2023/08/16
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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
2023/08/15
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
2023/08/11
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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
2023/08/10
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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'
2023/08/08
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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
2023/08/02
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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
2023/08/01
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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
2023/07/28
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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
2023/07/25
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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
2023/07/21
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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
2023/07/19
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
2023/07/18
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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
2023/07/14
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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
2023/07/11
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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
2023/07/07
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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
2023/07/06
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)
2023/07/05
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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)
2023/06/27
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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
2023/06/23
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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
2023/06/21
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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
2023/06/20
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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
2023/06/16
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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
2023/06/15
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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
2023/06/13
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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
2023/06/09
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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
2023/06/07
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
2023/06/06
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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
2023/06/02
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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
2023/06/01
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
2023/05/30
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
2023/05/26
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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
2023/05/25
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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
2023/05/24
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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
2023/05/23
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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
2023/05/19
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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
2023/05/18
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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'
2023/05/17
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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
2023/05/16
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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
2023/05/12
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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
2023/05/11
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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
2023/05/09
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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
2023/05/05
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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
2023/05/04
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
2023/05/02
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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
2023/04/28
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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
Kim Osorio, 'The Source' and hip-hop's overdue reckoning with misogynoir
2023/04/27
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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
2023/04/26
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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
2023/04/25
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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
2023/04/21
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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
2023/04/19
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
2023/04/18
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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
2023/04/14
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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
2023/04/07
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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
2023/04/06
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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
2023/04/04
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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
2023/03/31
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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
2023/03/30
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'
2023/03/29
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
2023/03/28
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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
2023/03/27
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
2023/03/24
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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
2023/03/23
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
2023/03/21
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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
2023/03/17
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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
2023/03/16
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
2023/03/15
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?
2023/03/14
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
2023/03/13
New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 10
2023/03/10
New Mix: Shame, Amber Arcades, Kimi Djabaté, more
2023/03/07
New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 3
2023/03/03
Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Karol G, Y La Bamba, The Latin Dead and more
2023/03/01
New Mix: Anna B Savage, Daisies, Neil Gaiman & FourPlay String Quartet, more
2023/02/28
How the score for 'All Quiet on the Western Front' made a familiar tale surprising
2023/02/27
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 24
2023/02/24
New Mix: Lana Del Rey, Sidney Gish, beabadoobee, more
2023/02/21
How Son Lux scored 'Everything Everywhere All At Once'
2023/02/20
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 17
2023/02/17
In conversation: How the U.S.-Mexico border shaped Adrian Quesada's fluid sound
2023/02/15
New Mix: Fantastic Negrito, Death Cab For Cutie, Indigo De Souza, more
2023/02/14
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 10
2023/02/10
New Mix: The Tallest Man On Earth, Yo La Tengo, Nanna, more
2023/02/07
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Feb. 3
2023/02/03
In conversation: Cimafunk on the complex African lineage of his music
2023/02/01
New Mix: Jana Horn, Debashish Bhattacharya, Lankum, more
2023/01/31
Guest DJ Tom Verlaine (2006)
2023/01/29
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Jan. 27
2023/01/27
New Mix: boygenius, The National, Baaba Maal, more
2023/01/24
In conversation: Fabi Reyna learned to listen to her revolutionary intuition
2023/01/18
New Mix: Peter Gabriel, Vagabon, Steady Holiday, more
2023/01/17
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Jan. 13
2023/01/13
New Mix: Kate Davis, Rozi Plain, M(h)aol, Fievel Is Glauque, more
2023/01/10
Peeling back layers of the 'Glass Onion' score
2023/01/06
In conversation: The Cuban roots of rock and roll
2023/01/04
In conversation: The enduring spark of Selena
2022/12/28
Viking's Choice 2022: Outer Sounds Around the World
2022/12/27
The All Songs Considered Holiday Cruise
2022/12/22
Holiday Mix: A Latin music Christmas
2022/12/21
Poll Results: Listeners Pick the Best Albums of 2022
2022/12/20
Countdown: The Top 10 Songs of 2022
2022/12/15
The best Latin music of 2022
2022/12/14
Countdown: The Top 10 Albums of 2022
2022/12/12
In conversation: Why cumbia is the musical backbone of Latin America
2022/12/07
Countdown: The Top 10 Rock Albums of 2022
2022/12/06
In conversation: Linda Ronstadt on embracing her Mexican heritage
2022/11/30
Planet Money Records Vol. 2: The Negotiation
2022/11/29
How cinematic guitar music reconnected Hermanos Gutiérrez as brothers
2022/11/23
Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson
2022/11/21
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 18
2022/11/18
How Silvana Estrada cultivates intimacy and generosity in her live performances
2022/11/16
New Mix: Radiohead's Philip Selway, Yo La Tengo, more
2022/11/15
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 11
2022/11/11
How making original music again helped Natalia Lafourcade grow her 'inner garden'
2022/11/09
Songs that make you feel good
2022/11/08
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 4
2022/11/04
The genre-subverting composer Angélica Negrón on embracing all sides of her identity
2022/11/02
The Best Music of October
2022/11/01
You've never heard The Beatles' 'Revolver' sound like this
2022/10/31
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Oct. 28
2022/10/28
Why Carlos Santana's divisive, spiritual 'Caravanserai' wasn't 'career suicide'
2022/10/27
A Halloween mix: Phoebe Bridgers and Andrew Bird, Sunny War, John Cale, more
2022/10/26
New Music Friday: The best releases out Oct. 21
2022/10/21
How the rhythms and resilience of Puerto Rico shape iLe's music
2022/10/19
New Mix: Sevdaliza, Mabe Fratti, The Arcs, more
2022/10/18
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Oct. 14
2022/10/14
Presenting Alt.Latino: The rapper Farruko on finding God — and a whole new sound
2022/10/13
A Sigur Rós masterpiece turns 20, plus Samia, JFDR, the sounds of Ghana and more
2022/10/11
New Music Friday: The best releases out Oct. 7
2022/10/07
Presenting Alt.Latino: Carla Morrison on Latinx mental health and her new sound
2022/10/05
The Best Music of September
2022/10/03
New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 30
2022/09/30
Presenting Alt.Latino: Why Tiny Desk Contest winner Alisa Amador almost gave up music
2022/09/28
The 20th anniversary edition of Wilco's 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,' Julia Jacklin, more
2022/09/27
New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 23
2022/09/23
Presenting Alt.Latino: How Rosalía found her confidence
2022/09/21
New Mix: Will Sheff, Beth Orton, Miya Folick, more
2022/09/20
New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 16
2022/09/16
Presenting Alt.Latino: Omar Apollo on the power of inclusion
2022/09/14
New Mix: The Comet Is Coming, Anna Tivel, Winter, more
2022/09/13
New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 9
2022/09/09
This episode is 'For The Birds'
2022/09/07
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Sept. 2
2022/09/02
The Best Music of August
2022/09/01
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 26
2022/08/26
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 19
2022/08/19
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 12
2022/08/12
New Mix: dodie, Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin, Young Jesus, more
2022/08/09
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 5
2022/08/05
The Best Music of July
2022/08/01
New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 29
2022/07/29
The power of Beyoncé is about to change music... again
2022/07/26
New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 22
2022/07/22
New Mix: The 1975, The Beths, King Princess, Danielle Ponder, more
2022/07/20
New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 15
2022/07/15
New Mix: Margo Price, renforshort, The Mountain Goats, Tianna Esperanza, more
2022/07/12
New Music Friday: The best releases out on July 8
2022/07/08
New Mix: Sylvan Esso, Ondara, Momma, Nora Brown and more
2022/07/06
The Best Music of June
2022/07/01
Norah Jones reflects on 20 years of 'Come Away With Me'
2022/06/28
New Music Friday: The best releases out June 24
2022/06/24
New Mix: Dry Cleaning, Jesca Hoop, Alex G, Rubblebucket, Jake Blount, Marlon Williams
2022/06/22
New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 17
2022/06/17
New Mix: S.G. Goodman, The A's, The Beths, Tamino, more
2022/06/14
New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 10
2022/06/10
New Mix: Death Cab For Cutie, Sylvan Esso, Lou Reed, NoSo, more
2022/06/07
New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 3
2022/06/03
The Best Music of May
2022/06/01
New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 27
2022/05/27
Presenting 'Pop Culture Happy Hour': Kendrick Lamar's 'Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers'
2022/05/24
New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 20
2022/05/20
New Mix: Tiny Desk Contest winner Alisa Amador, SOAK, Jens Lekman, more
2022/05/17
New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 13
2022/05/13
New Mix: Regina Spektor, Stella Donnelly, Tomberlin, More
2022/05/10
A conversation with Bonnie Raitt
2022/05/08
New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 6
2022/05/06
The Best Music of April
2022/05/02
New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 29
2022/04/29
New Mix: Phoebe Bridgers, Wilco, Quinn Christopherson, more
2022/04/26
New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 22
2022/04/22
New Mix: Pink Floyd, Patrick Watson, Sonny Singh, more
2022/04/19
New Music Friday: The Top 5 albums out on April 15
2022/04/15
New Mix: Joan Shelley, Craig Finn, Florist, more
2022/04/12
New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 8
2022/04/08
The Best Music of March
2022/04/04
New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on April 1
2022/04/01
Records That Changed Our Lives: Finding hope in Tracy Chapman and 'Brand New Eyes'
2022/03/30
New Mix: Angel Olsen, Perfume Genius, Soccer Mommy, more
2022/03/29
New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 25
2022/03/25
Records That Changed Our Lives: Defying Gatekeepers
2022/03/23
New Mix: Arcade Fire, Valerie June, The Smile, Andrew Bird, more
2022/03/22
New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 18
2022/03/18
Records That Changed Our Lives, Grown Woman Edition
2022/03/16
New Mix: Belle and Sebastian, Scout laRue Willis, Gang of Youths, More
2022/03/15
New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 11
2022/03/11
Records That Changed Our Lives, Teen Edition: 'Tidal,' 'Blacks' Magic,' Beyoncé's '4'
2022/03/09
New Mix: Regina Spektor, a Son Lux collaboration with David Byrne and Mitski, more
2022/03/08
New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on March 4
2022/03/04
Records That Changed Our Lives: How Kate Bush and Yoko Ono challenged us
2022/03/02
A Punjabi space epic and a laid-back throwback — NPR's favorite music of February
2022/03/01
New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Feb. 25
2022/02/25
New Mix: Sevdaliza, Porridge Radio, Fantastic Negrito, more
2022/02/22
New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Feb. 18
2022/02/18
New Mix: The Suffers, S. Carey, Lady Dan, more
2022/02/15
New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Feb. 11
2022/02/11
A conversation with Questlove on his 'Summer of Soul' soundtrack
2022/02/10
New Mix: Lucy Dacus, illuminati hotties, Madi Diaz with Waxahatchee, more
2022/02/08
New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Feb. 4
2022/02/04
A (deep) conversation with Elvis Costello
2022/02/01
New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Jan. 28
2022/01/28
New Mix: PUP, Kaina, Uwade, More
2022/01/25
New Music Friday: The top 6 albums out on Jan. 21
2022/01/21
New Mix: Shamir, Midlake, Anaïs Mitchell, Janis Ian, more
2022/01/19
New Music Friday: The Top 6 Albums Out Jan. 14
2022/01/14
New Mix: The Smile, Kae Tempest, Yard Act, More
2022/01/11
Presenting: Pop Culture Happy Hour, on Spotify's corporate ad game, 'Wrapped'
2021/12/30
How Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan created Merge Records
2021/12/29
The prophecies of Radiohead's 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac,' 20 years later
2021/12/28
Viking's Choice 2021: Cassettes rule everything around me
2021/12/27
Back to the cabin
2021/12/24
A holiday cruise
2021/12/23
Journey to the North Pole
2021/12/22
A holiday in space
2021/12/21
A holiday party for the ages
2021/12/20
How HBO's 'Insecure' changed the sound and scope of Black music
2021/12/17
The best songs and albums we missed in 2021
2021/12/15
Presenting: Alt.Latino's picks for the best singles of 2021
2021/12/12
Poll results: NPR listeners pick the top albums of 2021
2021/12/10
Presenting: Alt.Latino's look back at the best albums of 2021
2021/12/05
Lil Nas X on 'MONTERO,' NPR Music's song of the year
2021/12/03
Jazmine Sullivan unspools her 'Heaux Tales,' NPR Music's album of the year
2021/12/01
New Music Friday: The top 5 albums out on Nov. 26
2021/11/26
New Mix: Beach House, Jasmyn, Mckenna Grace, more
2021/11/23
New Music Friday: The top 7 albums out on Nov. 19
2021/11/19
New Mix: Big Thief, Pinegrove, FACESOUL, Maia Friedman, more
2021/11/16
New Music Friday: The top 6 albums out on Nov. 12
2021/11/12
New Mix: Jónsi, Julie Doiron, Rokia Koné, David Keenan, more
2021/11/09
New Music Friday: The top 8 albums out on Nov. 5
2021/11/05
The Best Music of October: NPR Staff Picks
2021/11/01
New Music Friday: The top 10 albums out on Oct. 29
2021/10/29
New Mix: Quinn Christopherson, mehro, Anjimile, IDLES, more
2021/10/26
New Music Friday: The top 8 albums out on Oct. 22
2021/10/22
Let It Be? No, Let's Remix The Beatles
2021/10/19
Presenting 'It's Been A Minute': Pop music's 'Latin Explosion' of 1999
2021/10/18
New Music Friday: The top 6 albums out on Oct. 15
2021/10/15
New Mix: Mitski, Cate Le Bon, Big Thief, Shamir, more
2021/10/13
Presenting 'It's Been A Minute': Reassessing Janet Jackson's 'Control' and legacy
2021/10/11
New Music Friday: The top 10 albums out on Oct. 8
2021/10/08
Presenting 'It's Been A Minute': The Lasting Legacy Of 'Soul Train'
2021/10/06
The Best Music of September: NPR Staff Picks
2021/10/04
New Music Friday: The top 7 albums out on Oct. 1
2021/10/01
New Mix: Le Ren, Wet Leg, Ustad Saami, NoSo, More
2021/09/29
New Music Friday: The Top 8 Albums Out On Sept. 24
2021/09/24
New Mix: alt-J, Loney Dear, Amythyst Kiah, Bnny, More
2021/09/22
Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf: Meet Our Winner
2021/09/20
New Music Friday: The Top 8 Albums Out On Sept. 17
2021/09/17
New Mix: Tiny Desk Contest Winner Neffy, Snail Mail, My Morning Jacket, More
2021/09/15
New Music Friday: The Top 11 Albums Out On Sept. 10
2021/09/10
All Songs Considered
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Hosts/nerds Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are your friendly music buddies with the week's best new music discoveries, including conversations with emerging artists, icons and more. Hear songs that can completely change your day, with humor, heart and (sometimes) a whole lot of noise. Directions for use: Morning commute, the gym, or alone time. (If rash persists, discontinue use.)
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