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Alt.Latino's New Music Roundup: Young Miko, The Mavericks and more
2024/04/17
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Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite new music, from Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko's boundary-pushing new music, to Alejandro Escovedo's genre-bending rock and Angelica Garcia's electro-cumbia.
Songs featured in this episode:
• Young Miko, "Tamagotchi"
• The Mavericks, "Moon & Stars (with Sierra Ferrell)"
• Angelica Garcia, "Juanita"
• Alejandro Escovedo, "Castañuelas"
• Nella, Yendry, "Veinte Años"
• Sheila E., "Bemba Colorá (ft. Gloria Estefan and Mimy Succar)"
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The Contenders, Vol. 7: The songs we can't stop playing this week
2024/04/16
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This week's update to our list of the year's best songs includes thunderous shoegaze from Wisp, a classic Cuban piano piece from Dánae Olano, a deeply moving story from Pedro The Lion and more.
Featured artists and songs :
1. Pedro The Lion: "Modesto," from 'Santa Cruz'
2. Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly: "Destejer," from 'Mestizx'
3. Sheila E.: "Bemba Colorá (feat. Gloria Estefan)," from 'Bailar'
4. Lizzy McAlpine: "I Guess," from 'Older'
5. Dánae Olano: "Danzón para la abuela" from 'Children's Corner'
6. Wisp: "Pandora" from 'Pandora' EP
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New Music Friday: The best albums out April 12
2024/04/12
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NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce and WRTI's Nate Chinen take you through the biggest new releases of the week, including Maggie Rogers, Shabaka Hutchings and more.
Featured albums:
- Shabaka, 'Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace'
- Maggie Rogers, 'Don't Forget Me'
- Lizz Wright, 'Shadow'
- Leyla McCalla, 'Sun Without the Heat'
Other notable albums out April 5:
- METZ, 'Up On Gravity Hill'
- Caroline Davis & Wendy Eisenberg, 'Accept When'
- girl in red, 'I'M DOING IT AGAIN BABY!'
- Future & Metro Boomin, 'We Still Don't Trust You'
- Nia Archives, 'Silence is Loud'
- V/A, 'My Black Country - The Songs of Alice Randall'
- Still House Plants, 'If I don't make it, I love u'
- Clarissa Connelly, 'World of Work'
- Meshell Ndegeocello, 'Red Hot and Ra: The Magic City'
- Bad Bad Hats, 'Bad Bad Hats'
- Dave Douglas, 'GIFTS'
- BODEGA, 'Our Brand Could Be Yr Life'
- English Teacher, 'This Could Be Texas'
- James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg, 'All Gist'
- Mark Knopfler, 'One Deep River'
- The Ophelias, 'Ribbon' EP
- Tusks, 'Gold'
- Raphael Schön, 'Heart Times'
- Sunburned Hand of the Man, 'Nimbus'
- Rejoicer, 'This Is Reasonable'
- Aaron Lee Tasjan, 'Stellar Evolution'
- Dolo Percussion, 'DOLO 6'
- Baby Blue, 'Of My Window'
- The Reds, Pinks & Purples, 'Unwishing Well'
- Water Damage, 'In E'
- Will Hoge, 'Tenderhearted Boys'
- Jess Ribeiro, 'Summer of Love'
- Sunbeam Sound Machine, 'Soft Signal' EP
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Songs to make you laugh, with 'Weird Al' Yankovic
2024/04/09
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"Weird Al" Yankovic helps curate a mix of some of the funniest songs of all time, from classics like Tom Lehrer's "The Elements," to more fringe discoveries from The Hazzards, Tonio K. and more.
Featured artists and songs :
1. Tonio K: "H-A-T-R-E-D"
2. Robbie Fulks: "Fountains of Wayne Hotline"
3. Tenacious D: "Tribute"
4. Spike Jones: "Der Fuehrer's Face"
5. Bill Oddie: "BLIMPHT"
6. The Hazzards: "Just A Temp"
7. Garfunkel and Oates: "Google"
8. Tom Lehrer: "The Elements"
9. Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Erika Henningsen, Ashley Park & Busy Philipps: "Famous 5eva"
10. Flight of the Conchords: "Hiphopopotamus Vs. Rhymenocerous (featuring Rhymenocerous And The Hiphopapoatumus)"
11. Shel Silverstein: "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out"
12. Weird Al: "One More Minute"
13. Weird Al: "The Saga Continues"
14. Bad Lip Reading: "Seagulls! (Stop It Now)"
15. Fun With Animals: "Goin' To Pasadena"
16. Spinal Tap: "Big Bottom"
17. The Lonely Island: "Lazy Sunday"
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New Music Friday: The best albums out April 5
2024/04/05
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It's a big week for fans of early aughts rock bands, with new releases from The Black Keys and Vampire Weekend hitting streaming services. Kick back with NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and World Cafe host Raina Douris as they run through the new albums you need to know about.
Featured albums:
1. The Black Keys, 'Ohio Players'
2. Vampire Weekend, 'Only God Was Above Us'
3. Katie Pruitt, 'Mantras'
4. Khruangbin, 'A La Sala'
Other notable releases for April 5, 2024:
• Phosphorescent, 'Revelator'
• Grace Cummings, ' Ramona'
• Young Miko, 'att.'
• Adam Wiltzie, 'Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal'
• Fabiana Palladino, s/t
• Vegyn, 'The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions'
• Benson Boone, 'Fireworks and Rollerblades'
• Jane Weaver, 'Love in Constant Spectacle'
• José James, '1978'
• Lizzy McAlpine, 'Older'
• Melissa Aldana, 'Echoes of the Inner Prophet'
• Mount Kimbie, 'The Sunset Violent'
• Pernice Brothers, 'Who Will You Believe'
• Sheila E., 'Bailar'
• Sinkane, 'We Belong'
• TisaKorean, 'MUMU 8818'
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Tracing the history of Latino artists making country music
2024/04/04
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The release of Beyoncés Cowboy Carter has sparked a national conversation about who gets to sing country music and the complex roots of the genre. Which got Alt.Latino thinking — what about the Latinos in country?
This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras travel to Austin, Texas to speak with AmeriChicana musician Carrie Rodriguez about the difference between violin and fiddle, strings and "strangs," and who gets to play country music.
Songs featured:
•Carin Leon, Leon Bridges: "It Was Always You (Siempre Fuiste Tu)"
•Cuco Sanchez: "La Cama de Piedra"
•Merle Haggard: "Big City"
•Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: "San Antonio Rose"
•Robert Earl Keen: "Feelin' Good Again"
•Chip Taylor, Carrie Rodriguez: "Dirty Little Texas Story"
•Eva Garza: "Quiero Verte Una Vez Mas"
•Rick Trevino: "Doctor Time"
•Ruben Ramos: "Crying Time"
•Sammy Arriaga: "Tennessee Whiskey - Spanglish"
•The Mavericks: "There Goes My Heart"
•Louie TheSinger: "Come and Take It"
•Carrie Rodriguez: "I Dreamed I Was Lola Beltran"
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Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino, and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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Everything you need to know about Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter'
2024/04/03
Our friends at Pop Culture Happy Hour dig into the highly anticipated Cowboy Carter and consider whether Beyoncé is knocking down the doors of the country establishment, or looking for validation.
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The Contenders Vol. 6: The songs we can't stop playing this week
2024/04/02
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We update our running list of the year's best songs with Charlotte Day Wilson's beguiling "Canopy," wry punk from Gustaf, a breathtaking new solo work from Adrianne Lenker and more.
Featured artists and songs :
1. Gustaf: "Starting and Staring," from 'Package, Pt. 2'
2. Mustafa: "Imaan" (Single)
3. Adrianne Lenker: "No Machine," from 'Bright Future'
4. Charlotte Day Wilson: "Canopy," from 'Cyan Blue'
5. Gary Clark Jr.: "Maktub," from 'JPEG RAW'
6. Nourished by Time: "Hell of a Ride," from 'Catching Chickens'
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What do we really want from Shakira?
2024/03/30
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Shakira just released her first album in seven years, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran , and most listeners and critics have high praise. But this episode of Alt.Latino puts the record to the test.
Felix Contreras, Anamaria Sayre and NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento talk about what makes a Shakira record a Shakira record , how pop artists reinvent themselves and loving your favorite artists even if you don't always love their music.
Songs featured in this episode:
•Shakira: "Puntería"
•Shakira: "La Fuerte"
•Shakira: "Obtener un Si"
•Shakira: "El Jefe"
•Paul Simon: "You Can Call me Al"
•Shakira: "Cómo Dónde y Cuándo"
•Santana: "Smooth"
•Shakira: "Cohete"
•Karol G, Shakira: "TQG"
•Miles Davis: "Bitches Brew"
•Shakira: "Monotonía"
•Shakira: "Escondite Ingles"
Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino, and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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New Music Friday: The best albums out March 29
2024/03/29
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Beyoncé's breathlessly-anticipated Act II: Cowboy Carter is finally here, and NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce shares his initial reactions after staying up late to listen to the album as soon as it hit streaming services.
But Queen Bey isn't the only artist with a new album worthy of discovery and dissection this week, and Sheldon is joined by Ann Powers to talk about a handful of other albums that deserve celebration. Those include a pair of albums — by Reyna Tropical and Kelly Moran — shaped by tragedy and its aftermath.
Featured albums:
1. Beyoncé, Act II: Cowboy Carter
2. Reyna Tropical: Malegría
3. Kelly Moran: Moves in the Field
4. Chastity Belt: Live, Laugh, Love
Other notable releases for March 29, 2024:
• Alejandro Escovedo, Echo Dancing
• Chicano Batman, Notebook Fantasy
• Dawn Landes, The Liberated Woman's Songbook
• Jim White, All Hits: Memories
• Kenny Chesney, BORN
• Rico Nasty & Boys Noize, HVRDC0RE DR3MZ EP
• Ride, Interplay
• Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Revelations
• Shabazz Palaces, Exotic Birds of Prey
• Sheryl Crow, Evolution
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Relax: Songs to calm the nerves
2024/03/26
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It's music to the rescue on this week's All Songs Considered , with a mix of songs to slow the blood, including the one track scientists believe can reduce anxiety by up to 65%.
Featured songs and artists:
• Marconi Union: "Weightless"
• Mary Lattimore: "Wawa by the Ocean" from 'Collected Pieces'
• Van-Anh Nguyen and Noshika Masuda: "Spiegel im Spiegel" by Arvo Pärt
• Brian McBride: "Girl Nap" from 'The Effective Disconnect'
• Laraaji: "Meditation No. 1" from 'Day of Radiance'
• Arooj Aftab: "Saans Lo" from 'Vulture Prince'
• Eluvium: "One" from 'Talk Amongst The Trees'
• Enya: "Watermark" from 'Watermark'
• Adele: "Somoene Like You" from '21'
• Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, John Pritchard & London • Philharmonic Orchestra: "O Mio babbino caro" from 'Kiri Te Kanawa Sings Puccini and Verdi'
• Yo La Tengo: "Our Way To Fall" from 'And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out'
• Cassandra Jenkins: "Hard Drive" from 'An Overview of Phenomenal Nature'
• Ruth Laredo: "Clair de Lune" from 'My First Recital'
• Rachika Nayar: "Our Wretched Fantasy" from 'Heaven Come Crashing'
• Radiohead: "Everything in its Right Place" from 'Kid A'
• Clem Snide: "Nick Drake Tape" from 'A Beautiful EP'
Visit our site to see the Top 10 songs scientists say are the most relaxing.
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In conversation: Tierra Whack opens up
2024/03/23
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NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael interviews the rap visionary about her new album, faking it until you make it and why success can breed suicidal thoughts.
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New Music Friday: The best albums out March 22
2024/03/22
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Though it isn't quite as packed with huge names as last week, we're digging through another robust assortment of terrific albums. Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Stephen Thompson open by hailing Tigers Blood , the latest album from a singer-songwriter — Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee — who sounds more assured and potent than ever.
Plus: inescapably catchy global pop from South African singer Tyla, genre-straddling roots music from Sierra Ferrell, indescribable electronic compositions from Jlin and more.
Featured albums:
1. Waxahatchee, Tigers Blood
2. Tyla, Tyla
3. Sierra Ferrell, Trail of Flowers
4. Jlin, Akoma
Other notable releases for March 22:
• Rosie Tucker, 'Utopia Now!'
• Empress Of, 'For Your Consideration'
• Adrianne Lenker, 'Bright Future'
• The Jesus and Mary Chain, 'Glasgow Eyes'
• Future & Metro Boomin, 'We Don't Trust You'
• SiR, 'HEAVY'
• Good Morning, 'Seven'
• Tatyana, 'It's Over'
• Aoife O'Donovan, 'All My Friends'
• Brothers Osborne, 'Break Mine'
• Cakes da Killa, 'Black Sheep'
• Matt Champion (of Brockhampton), 'Mika's Laundry'
• Gary Clark Jr., 'JPEG RAW'
• Glass Beams, 'Mahal'
• Gossip, 'Real Power'
• Julia Holter, 'Something in the Room She Moves'
• Nourished by Time, 'Catching Chickens' EP
• Rosali, 'Bite Down'
• Shakira, 'Las Mujeres La No Lloran'
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Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Elsa y Elmar, Julieta Eugenio, Esteman and more
2024/03/21
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The weather's heating up and so are the music releases. The hosts of Alt.Latino share their most quintessentially them picks, with Latin jazz across the board from Felix and indie pop-rock bops from Ana.
The two sit down to ping-pong favorite picks back and forth from different parts of the country — plus, Felix puts Ana's picks to an impromptu test.
Featured tracks:
Lara Project, "Extraños"
Julieta Eugenio, "Breath I"
Esteman, Villano Antillano, "Noches de Verano"
Rodrigo Recabarren, Pablo Menares, Yago Vazquez, "Santiago"
Elsa y Elmar, "Entre Las Piernas"
Hurray For The Riff Raff, "Hawkmoon"
Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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The Contenders, Vol. 5: Our running list of the year's best songs
2024/03/19
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We update our tally of the year's best contenders with the effervescent Bombay Bicycle Club, Residente's epic and profound "313," cellist Maya Beiser's take on Terry Riley's In C and more.
Alt.Latino 's Anamaria Sayre and NPR Music's Tom Huizenga join host Robin Hilton
Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Bombay Bicycle Club: "Willow (feat. Lucy Rose)," from 'Fantasies'
2. Ela Taubert: "Como Paso" (single)
3. Jlin: "Sodalite (feat. Kronos Quartet)," from 'Akoma'
4. Maya Hawke: "Missing Out," from 'Chaos Angel'
5. Residente: "313" from 'LAS LETRAS YA NO IMPORTAN'
6. Maya Beiser: "In C," from 'Maya Beiser x Terry Riley: In C'
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New Music Friday: The best albums out March 15
2024/03/15
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It feels like the first major springtime release week of 2024. Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen discuss the hotly awaited album by Kacey Musgraves and the full-length debut by Tierra Whack, plus more.
Featured albums:
1. Kacey Musgraves, Deeper Well
2. Tierra Whack, World Wide Whack
3. Justin Timberlake, Everything I Thought It Was
4. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
Other notable releases for March 15
• Four Tet, Three
• The Black Crowes, Happiness Bastards
• Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
• The Dandy Warhols, Rockmaker
• Holly Humberstone, work in progress EP
• Flo Milli, Fine Ho, Stay
• Elcamino, The Game Is The Game
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Spring preview 2024
2024/03/12
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World Cafe 's Raina Douris joins NPR's Sheldon Pearce and host Robin Hilton to talk about the most anticipated albums out this spring, including new ones from Vampire Weekend, Waxahatchee, Portishead's Beth Gibbons and more.
Featured artists, albums and songs:
Reyna Tropical: "Conexión Ancestral" from 'Malegría,' out March 29
Yaya Bey: "Chasing the Bus" from 'Ten Fold,' out May 10
METZ: "Entwined (Street Light Buzz)" from 'Up On Gravity Hill,' out April 12
Vampire Weekend: "Gen X Cops" from 'Only God Was Above Us,' out April 5
Shabaka: "End of Innocence" from 'Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace,' out April 12
Beth Gibbons: "Floating on a Moment" from 'Lives Outgrown,' out May 17
Waxahatchee: "365" from 'Tigers Blood,' out March 22
Amen Dunes: "Boys" from 'Death Jokes,' out May 10
girl in red: "Doing It Again" from 'I'm Doing It Again Baby!' out April 12
See a list of more of NPR Music's most anticipated albums for spring 2024 .
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New Music Friday: The best albums out March 8
2024/03/08
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A wave of springtime releases might be just around the corner, but the biggest albums out this week are keeping things cool in an enticing variety of ways. Ann Powers and Hazel Cills discuss what Jack Antonoff, Norah Jones, Moor Mother's Camae Ayewa and Kim Gordon have in common, besides a common release date.
Featured albums:
1. Kim Gordon, The Collective
2. Bleachers, Bleachers
3. Norah Jones, Visions
4. Moor Mother, The Great Bailout
Other notable releases for March 8:
• Ariana Grande, Eternal Sunshine
• Bolis Pupul, Letter to Yu
• Judas Priest, Invincible Shield
• YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Compliments of Gravedigger Mountain
• Oisin Leech, Cold Sea
• Cyrille Aimée, à Fleur de Peau
• Dion, Girl Friends
• Chris Potter, Eagle's Point
• Torrey, Torrey
• Daniel Carter and Stefan Christoff, In the wind now
• homeshake, CD Wallet
• Pixies, At the BBC
• Meatbodies, Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom
• Ronnie Lion, Spanish Town
• Vanessa Bedoret, Eyes
• Charles Moothart, Black Holes Don't Choke
• Anja Huwe, Codes
• Erika Angell, The Obsession With Her Voice
• The Rhythm Method, Peachy
• The Hanging Stars, On A Golden Shore
• astrel k, The Foreign Department
• Observers, The Age of the Machine Entities
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Sounds from Havana: A brief history of Cuban music
2024/03/06
Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras visited Cuba and give us an audio-rich tour of Havana.
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The Contenders, Vol. 4: Our running list of the year's best songs
2024/03/05
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Brittany Luse, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute , joins NPR's Stephen Thompson and host Robin Hilton to update our running tally of songs that could end up on NPR Music's best-of-the-year lists.
Featured Tracks :
1. Empress Of: "Feminine," from For Your Consideration
2. Rosie Tucker: "All My Exes Live In Vortexes," from UTOPIA NOW!
3. Patrick Watson: "Perfect Day" (Single)
4. Summer Banton: "Boyfriend" (Single)
5. Madi Diaz: "God Person," from Weird Faith
6. Friko: "Get Numb To It," from Where we've been, Where we go from here
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New Music Friday: The best albums out March 1
2024/03/01
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Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce discuss Faye Webster's Underdressed at the Symphony and a handful of the week's other brand new albums on which a musician's personality seems to be embodied by their voice — even when the music is completely instrumental.
Featured albums:
1. Faye Webster, Underdressed at the Symphony
2. ScHoolboy Q, Blue Lips
3. Julian Lage, Speak To Me
4. Sheer Mag, Playing Favorites
Other notable releases for March 1:
Paula Cole, Lo
Jacob Collier, Djesse Vol. 4
Everything Everything, Mountainhead
Nils Frahm, Day
Hannah Frances, Keeper of the Shepherd
Ben Frost, Scope Neglect
Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Liam Gallagher & John Squire
Albert Hammond, Body of Work
Jahari Massamba Unit, Karriem Riggins & Madlib, YHWH is LOVE
Kaiser Chiefs, Kaiser Chiefs' Easy Eighth Album
Lang Lang, Saint-Saëns
Mannequin Pussy, I Got Heaven
Ministry, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES
Pissed Jeans, Half Divorced
That Mexican OT, Texas Technician
Uranium Club, Infants Under the Bulb
Yard Act, Where's My Utopia?
De La Soul, 3 Feet High and Rising (35th Anniversary Edition)
Linda Smith, Nothing Else Matters and So I Liked Spring (reissues)
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Beck's 'Loser' at 30 and the golden age of slacker rock
2024/02/27
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Nothing on mainstream radio sounded like Beck's "Loser" when it dropped in 1994. Thirty years later, we explain why, look at its impact on the rise of slacker rock and how we still hear it today.
With KEXP 's Cheryl Waters, NPR's Stephen Thompson and host Robin Hilton.
Beck tracks featured in this episode:
From 'Mellow Gold':
"Loser"
"Truck Driving Neighbor Downstairs (Yellow Sweat)"
"Beercan"
"Black Hole"
From 'Stereopathetic Soulmanure':
"Satan Gave Me A Taco"
"Rowboat"
From 'One Foot in the Grave':
"One Foot in the Grave"
Also featured:
Basehead: "Brand New Day" from 'Play with Toys'
Ween: "Push Th' Little Daisies" from 'Pure Guava'
King Missile: "Detachable Penis" from 'Happy Hour'
Pussy Galore: "Brick" from 'Sugars*** Sharp'
The Lemonheads: "Half The Time" from 'Lovey'
Guided By Voices: "#2 in the Model Home Series" from 'Vampire on Titus'
Sebadoh: "Soul and Fire" from 'Bubble & Scrape'
Pavement: "Cut Your Hair" from 'Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain'
Alex G: "Runner" from 'God Save the Animals'
Courtney Barnett: "History Eraser" from 'The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas'
Frankie Cosmos: "Apathy" from 'Vessel'
Beck: "F**** With My Head (Mountain Dew Rock)" from 'Mellow Gold'
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New Music Friday: The best albums out Feb. 23
2024/02/23
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Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen discuss Hurray for the Riff Raff's career-defining new album The Past Is Still Alive , along with a trio of other thrilling new releases that reveal the distinct strengths of the musicians behind them.
Featured albums:
1. Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Past Is Still Alive
2. Erika de Casier, Still (released Wednesday, Feb. 21)
3. Real Estate, Daniel
4. Mary Timony, Untame The Tiger
Other notable releases out Feb. 23:
• Daymé Arocena, Alkemi
• glaive, a bit of a mad one
• Glitterer, Rationale
• Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Souvenirs
• Corb Lund, El Viejo
• Mama Zu, Quilt Floor
• MGMT, Loss of Life
• Laetitia Sadier, Rooting for Love
• Nadine Shah, Filthy Underneath
• Rafael Toral, Spectral Evolution
• TWICE, With YOU-th
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Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Residente, La Yegros and El Cuarteto de Nos
2024/02/21
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Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre round up their favorite new music, including Southern Cone rock and cumbia, atmospheric vocals from the U.S. and even some delicate yet emotionally powerful music from the Catalan region of Spain.
Featured songs:
El Cuarteto de Nos: "Chivo Expiatorio (En Vivo)"
Helado Negro: "Best For You and Me"
La Yegros: "Bodas de Plumas"
Lau Noah: "If a tree falls in love with a river"
Daymé Arocena: "A Fuego Lento" (feat. Vicente García)
Residente: "Ron En El Piso"
Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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The Contenders, Vol. 3: Our running list of the year's best songs
2024/02/20
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Host Robin Hilton hangs with composer and artist Julia Holter and NPR's Lars Gotrich to gab about their favorite new music, including the calming sounds of Helado Negro, Daisy Rickman and more.
Featured artists and songs:
1. Jessica Pratt: "Life Is" from 'Here In The Pitch'
2. Deerlady: "Masterpieces" from 'Greatest Hits'
3. Helado Negro: "Colores Del Mar" from 'Phasor'
4. Julia Holter: "Spinning" from 'Something in the Room She Moves'
5. Daisy Rickman: "Signpost to the Stars" from 'Howl'
6. Frances Chang: "Spiral in Houston" from 'Psychedelic Anxiety'
7. Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang: "Ocean" from 'Azure'
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New Music Friday: 5 albums out Feb. 16, plus 'Rhapsody in Blue' still thrills at 100
2024/02/16
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NPR Music's Felix Contreras and WRTI's Nate Chinen run down new albums by Gaby Mareno, Les Amazones d'Afrique and more. Then, Nate Chinen is joined by NPR Music's Tom Huizenga to discuss the legacy and controversy around George Gershwin's masterpiece, "Rhapsody in Blue," which celebrated its centennial this week.
Featured albums out Feb. 16:
• Gaby Moreno, 'Dusk'
• Mike McGinnis +9, 'Outing: Road Trip II'
• Mike LeDonne and the Groover Quartet, 'Wonderful!'
• Nathalie Joachim, 'Ki moun ou ye'
• Les Amazones d'Afrique, 'Musow Danse'
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Mix messages: Listeners share the songs that say 'I've got a crush on you'
2024/02/13
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We asked listeners to tell us about a time they put a song on a mixtape or playlist to woo a crush. On this week's show, we share some of those songs ... and find out if they worked.
Featured Songs:
1. Peter Gabriel: "In Your Eyes"
2. Depeche Mode: "Somebody"
3. Erykah Badu: "Kiss Me On My Neck"
4. Madness: "It Must Be Love"
5. Mirah: "Dreamboat"
6. Q-Tip: "Vivrant Thing"
7. The Kinks: "Tired of Waiting for You"
8. The Magnetic Fields: "I Don't Want To Get Over You"
9. The Modern Lovers: "I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms"
10. Mazzy Star: "Fade Into You"
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New Music Friday: Brittany Howard and a new era of musical masters
2024/02/09
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Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce listen to the new albums out on Feb. 9 — including Brittany Howard's What Now — and find themselves wondering about the cultural value of virtuosity in 2024.
Featured albums:
1. Brittany Howard, What Now
2. Joel Ross, nublues
3. Boldy James & Nicholas Craven, Penalty of Leadership (released Jan. 12)
4. Kali Malone, All Life Long
5. Sonic Youth, Walls Have Ears
6. Usher, Coming Home
Other notable albums out Feb. 9:
• Helado Negro, PHASOR
• Chelsea Wolfe, She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
• Madi Diaz, Weird Faith
• Declan McKenna, What Happened To The Beach?
• Little Simz, Drop 7 EP
• Shygirl, Club Shy EP
• Kelela, RAVE:N, The Remixes
• Mk.gee, Two Star & The Dream Police
• Ducks Ltd., Harm's Way
• David Nance & Mowed Sound, David Nance & Mowed Sound
• Split System, Vol. 2
• The Telescopes, Growing Eyes Become String
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The greatest Boleros of all-time
2024/02/08
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Nothing captures the agony of love, loss, hope and redemption like the song form known across all of Latin America: the bolero.
Last December, UNESCO declared the bolero "an intangible cultural heritage of humanity" and "an indispensable part of the Latin American sentimental song." And given that Valentine's Day is coming up, Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre did something special this week, in honor of this news: they asked some of their favorite artists and show listeners to share their most-loved boleros, and break down exactly what makes them so special. Join Felix and Ana as they laugh, cry and sing a little to the love songs of the ages.
And be sure to check out the playlists we made for this episode, feature Ana and Felix's picks, as well as the selections from featured artists and listeners, on Spotify and Apple Music .
Audio for this episode of Alt.Latino was edited and mixed by Joaquin Cotler. Hazel Cills is the podcast editor and digital editor for Alt.Latino and our project manager is Grace Chung. NPR Music's executive producer is Suraya Mohamed. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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The Contenders, Vol. 2: Our running list of the year's best songs
2024/02/06
Host Robin Hilton hangs with NPR's Hazel Cills and Sheldon Pearce to geek out about the new Billy Joel, Kim Gordon, Shygirl, Nia Archives and more.
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A recap of the 2024 Grammys
2024/02/05
Our friends at NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour break down the major winners and highlights from the 2024 Grammy Awards.
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New Music Friday: What Were The Grammys Made For?
2024/02/02
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Ann Powers, Sidney Madden and Stephen Thompson make predictions ahead of Sunday night's 66th annual Grammy Awards.
Notable albums out Feb. 2:
• The Last Dinner Party, Prelude to Ecstasy
• J Mascis, What Do We Do Now
• Kirin J Callinan, If I Could Sing
• Lee Scratch Perry, King Perry
• Paul McCartney & Wings, Band on the Run (Underdubbed Mixes)
• The Paranoid Style, The Interrogator
• Liquid Mike, Paul Bunyan's Slingshot
• Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey, Compassion
• Jenny Sturgeon & Boo Hewerdine, Outliers
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Why we still love Green Day
2024/01/30
With Green Day's stellar new album, Saviors , the 20th anniversary of American Idiot and 30th anniversary of Dookie , NPR's Daoud Tyler-Ameen, Stephen Thompson and Robin Hilton look at the band's legacy.
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New Music Friday: The best albums out Jan. 26 (and why they deserve reviews)
2024/01/26
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There's plenty about Wall of Eyes , the new album by the British rock trio The Smile, to remind you of Radiohead, the band with which The Smile shares Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. But there's something about The Smile that resists feeling like Radiohead redux, and on this week's episode Ann Powers, Tom Huizenga and Sheldon Pearce get to the bottom of what makes Wall of Eyes so satisfying on its own terms.
Plus: Discussion of a week's worth of great albums leads to a conversation about the state of music criticism, which took a blow last week when the long-standing, much-beloved, occasionally-hated website Pitchfork was folded into the men's magazine GQ and much of its staff laid off.
Featured Albums for January 26, 2024:
1. Patricia Kopatchinksaja, Reto Bieri, Polina Leschenko — Take 3
2. Benny the Butcher — Everybody Can't Go
3. Katy Kirby — Blue Raspberry
4. The Smile — Wall of Eyes
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In Conversation: Ana Tijoux returns after a 10-year break
2024/01/24
In this week's Alt.Latino episode, Chilean rapper and singer Ana Tijoux talks to hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre about her new album, Vida , and why it took so long to return to the studio.
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Why the Oscar-winning score for 'All Quiet On The Western Front' still gives chills
2024/01/23
With the announcement of the 96th annual Oscar nominees, we're revisiting our conversation with Volker Bertelmann, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score last year for All Quiet On The Western Front .
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New Music Friday: 21 Savage's 'American Dream'
2024/01/19
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NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce, Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden dig into hip-hop superstar 21 Savage's new album, his notorious ICE arrest and what it means to capture the American dream.
Noteworthy albums out January 19:
- Sleater-Kinney, Little Rope
- Green Day, Saviors
- Eladio Carrión, Sol María
- Ana Tijoux, Vida
- Brittney Spencer, My Stupid Life
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward
- Ethan Iverson, Technically Acceptable
- glass beach, plastic death
- ericdoa, DOA
- Neck Deep, Neck Deep
- Fredo Bang, Yes, I'm Sad
- Keyon Harrold, Foreverland
- Jozef Van Wissem, The Night Dwells In The Day
- Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino, With pats on the head, just one too few evil one too many is good that's all it is
- Mali Obomsawin and Magdalena Abrego, Greatest Hits
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The Contenders, Vol. 1: Our running list of the year's best songs
2024/01/16
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Host Robin Hilton hangs with NPR Music's Anamaria Sayre and Tom Huizenga to share their current musical obsessions, from the solo piano of Philip Glass to the garage punk of Sprints, Spain's super chill Club del Rio and more.
Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Lavinia Meijer: "The Departure" from Winter
2. Xavi: "La Diabla (Single)
3. Faye Webster and Lil Yachty: "Lego Ring" from Underdressed at the Symphony
4. Philip Glass: "Opening," from Philip Glass Solo
5. Club del Rio: "Una Vida" (Single)
6. Sprints: "Literary Mind" from Letter to Self
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Setting our sights on the biggest music stories of the 2024
2024/01/12
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To ring in the new year, NPR Music's critics take over the latest episode of New Music Friday to offer predictions about the artists, genres and stories that might dominate conversations about music in 2024.
Ann Powers, Rodney Carmichael and Nate Chinen join editor Jacob Ganz to discuss whether Usher's Super Bowl performance or Dua Lipa's new sound could launch these hardworking artists to new levels of ubiquity. Is it possible for either to one steal some of the spotlight that Beyoncé and Taylor Swift dominated last year?
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New Music From Alt.Latino
2024/01/10
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Hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre share the latest new songs that live rent-free in their heads.
Featured songs:
Candeleros, "Le Quedan Dos"
Cuco, "When The Day Comes To An End (DJ Sliink Remix)"
Gaby Moreno, "Dance the Night Away"
Ed Maverick, "Lagunas"
Helado Negro, "I Just Want To Wake Up With You"
Ana Tijoux, "Tania"
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2024 Preview: The year's most anticipated albums
2024/01/09
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We take a spin through the albums we're most excited about for this year, including Sleater-Kinney, Brittany Howard, Hurray for the Riff Raff and more, plus a few rumored releases.
Featured Albums:
1. Sleater-Kinney — Little Rope
2. The Smile — Wall of Eyes
3. Brittany Howard — What Now
4. Mary Timony — Untame the Tiger
5. Lee Scratch Perry — King Perry
6. Grandaddy — Blu Wav
7. Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Past Is Still Alive
8. serpentwithfeet — GRIP
9. Chelsea Wolfe — She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
10. Erika de Casier — Still
Other notable releases for 2024:
Jan. 12: Kid Cudi — Insano
Jan. 12: Kali Uchis — Orquideas
Jan. 19: Green Day — Saviors
Jan. 26: Future Islands — People Who Aren't There Anymore
Jan. 26: Torres — What an enormous room
Jan. 26: Ty Segall — Three Bells
Feb. 9: Helado Negro — PHASOR
Feb. 16: Laura Jane Grace — Hole In My Head
Feb. 16: IDLES — TANGK
Feb. 29: Jacob Collier — Djesse Vol. 4
March 1: Sheer Mag — Playing Favorites
March 8: Bleachers — Bleachers
March 29: Chastity Belt — Live Love Laugh
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Viking's Choice goes back to the future
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 .
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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New Music Friday: The best releases out Oct. 6
2023/10/06
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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the rapper Earl Sweatshirt, the return of Sufjan Stevens and more.
1. Earl Sweatshirt & The Alchemist — Voir Dire
Featured Song: "27 Braids"
2. Sufjan Stevens — Javelin
Featured Song: "Goodbye Evergreen"
3. Jolie Holland — Haunted Mountain
Featured Song: "Highway 72"
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Bob Boilen's farewell show: Songs that say 'goodbye'
2023/10/02
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Twenty three years after creating and hosting All Songs Considered , Bob Boilen is retiring. But before he goes, we've got a special send-off, featuring a surprise guest list of his favorite artists.
You'll hear from Brian Eno, Sharon Van Etten, Jeff Tweedy, Mitski and a whole lot more.
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New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 29
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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The hip-hop verse that changed my life
2023/08/23
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From our friends at Pop Culture Happy Hour : What makes for an unshakable rap verse — the kind that shifts your world view and sticks around years after the first time you encountered it? This month marks 50 years since the birth of hip-hop, so we reached out to some NPR colleagues and a few hip-hop luminaries and asked them what hip-hop verse changed their lives.
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A conversation with Paul Simon
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."
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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
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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.
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A conversation with Robbie Robertson
2023/08/15
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Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter for The Band, died Aug. 9 at the age of 80. For this remembrance, we're sharing an encore presentation of a conversation Robertson had with All Songs Considered 's Bob Boilen in 2018, on the 50th anniversary of The Band's seminal album Music From Big Pink.
Note: This interview originally published Aug. 8, 2018.
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New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 11
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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In conversation: How YEИDRY uses music to bridge worlds
2023/07/19
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Alt.Latino' s Anamaria Sayre speaks with YEИDRY, the Dominican-born, Italian-raised singer about using music as a tool to marry her two worlds.
Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Isabella Gomez Sarmiento. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.
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New Mix: Courtney Barnett, Grandaddy, Lowland Hum, more
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)
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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
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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
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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
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PJ Harvey on how she turned her epic poem 'Orlam' into a potent new album
2023/07/06
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The singer talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers about Harvey's album I Inside the Old Year Dying, a ragged, highly crafted adaptation of her epic poem Orlam. It's a work that runs on the rhythm of the seasons and captures the beauty, fantastical rawness and occasional horror of English rural life.
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Alt.Latino picks the best music of 2023 (so far)
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.
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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'
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Viking's Choice: Anjimile, High Rise, Fatoumata Diawara, more
2023/06/06
New Music Friday: The best releases out on June 2
2023/06/02
How the 'scarcity mindset' enforces the unwritten rules of rap
2023/06/01
Remembering Tina Turner
2023/05/30
New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 26
2023/05/26
Like poppa, like son: Rodney Carmichael
2023/05/25
In conversation: Cellist Mabe Fratti on embracing imperfections and going to extremes
2023/05/24
New Mix: Tiny Desk Contest winner Little Moon, ANOHNI, yeule and more
2023/05/23
New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 19
2023/05/19
Rico Nasty, the 'strong Black woman' trope and how you get your power back
2023/05/18
In conversation: Karol G on her life as a 'happy heartbreak girl'
2023/05/17
New Mix: Fred again.. and Brian Eno, Youth Lagoon, dodie, more
2023/05/16
New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 12
2023/05/12
How Saucy Santana pushes back against stale standards in hip-hop
2023/05/11
New Mix: Rufus Wainwright, PJ Harvey, Rhiannon Giddens, more
2023/05/09
New Music Friday: The best releases out on May 5
2023/05/05
iLoveMakonnen and hip-hop's troubled relationship with masculinity
2023/05/04
New Mix: Balmorhea, Hayden Pedigo, Julie Christmas, more
2023/05/02
New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 28
2023/04/28
Kim Osorio, 'The Source' and hip-hop's overdue reckoning with misogynoir
2023/04/27
Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: Bad Bunny, Grupo Frontera, Becky G and more
2023/04/26
New Mix: Cowboy Junkies, Michael Stipe, Wallice, more
2023/04/25
New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 21
2023/04/21
In conversation: Girl Ultra on Mexico City's 'haunted' energy
2023/04/19
New Mix: Indigo De Souza, Speedy Ortiz, more
2023/04/18
New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 14
2023/04/14
New Music Friday: The best releases out on April 7
2023/04/07
How Trina flipped the script on stereotypes of Black women in rap
2023/04/06
New Mix: Zoon, Shirley Collins, Orchestra Gold, Pry, more
2023/04/04
New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 31
2023/03/31
Beauty is in the eye of the male gaze: DreamDoll, Baby Tate and Doechii
2023/03/30
In conversation: How Camilo Lara is Mexico's musical 'double agent'
2023/03/29
New Mix: Ólafur Arnalds and Ella McRobb, Protomartyr, The Antlers, more
2023/03/28
How Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily conjured Love In Exile
2023/03/27
New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 24
2023/03/24
The overlooked legacy of Sha-Rock, hip-hop's first female MC
2023/03/23
New Mix: Kara Jackson, Sofia Kourtesis, Ratboys and more
2023/03/21
New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 17
2023/03/17
Megan Thee Stallion, Tory Lanez and the impact of misogynoir on rap
2023/03/16
In conversation: Why Mexican pop icon Julieta Venegas doesn't call herself a pioneer
2023/03/15
How does De La Soul sound in the streaming era?
2023/03/14
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
All Songs Considered
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Since launching in 2000, All Songs Considered has been NPR's flagship program for music discovery, artist interviews and conversations with friends and fellow music lovers about the really big questions, like what was the best decade for music, are there albums everyone can agree on, and what do you put on when you need a good cry? Weekly, with host Robin Hilton and the NPR Music family.
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