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New Music Friday: The best albums out July 31
The Durutti Column. Arca. MOLIY. Host Stephen Thompson chats with Olive Kimoto of member station KCRW in Los Angeles about their favorite al...
Alt.Latino: Is Bill Evans techno?
Bill Evans might not be techno. But in this week's episode, the slow-building angst and tension of electronic producer Debit's new music rem...
How to love the Grateful Dead
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest places, if you look at it right. And if you get confused, just listen to the music...
New Music Friday: The best albums out July 24
Charli xcx. Tyla. Shania Twain. Guest host Ann Powers chats with Nastia Voynovskaya of member station KQED in San Francisco about their favo...
Alt.Latino: Spain wins (at music, too)
We'll take any excuse to talk about the insane quality of music coming out of Spain these days. This week, we got one: Spain defeated Argent...
Sylvan Esso, Phoebe Bridgers, feeble little horse, more
We share our picks for the best new tracks out now, including the laid-back dystopia of Sylvan Esso’s “Concrete Glen,” an acoustic take on P...
New Music Friday: The best albums out July 17
Gracie Abrams. Nia Archives. Steve Lacy. On a release day full of catchy earworms, host Stephen Thompson chats with Tshego Letsoalo of KALW...
Alt.Latino: Country twang, Brazilian flow
With last week's best-of show behind us, we've got a clean slate to dive into our favorite new music kicking off the second half of the year...
beabadoobee, The Rolling Stones, Four Tet, more
On her stellar new single, “Switchblade,” beabadoobee shreds ‘90s style. The Rolling Stones have still got it on their latest album, Foreign...
New Music Friday: The best albums out July 10
Jack White. Baby Rose. Suki Waterhouse. Host Stephen Thompson chats with Maggie Brennan of WCBE in Ohio about their favorite albums out Frid...
Alt.Latino: The best Latin music of 2026 (so far)
It’s that time of the year again: a mix between Christmas and Halloween for me and Felix. We gift you our best album picks of the year so fa...
Summer’s simple pleasures: Roséwave
Roséwave is a feeling more than a singular sound or genre. It’s the kind of sweetness and sadness that underscores the long, languid days of...
The best albums of 2026 (so far)
On a special mid-year episode of New Music Friday, host Stephen Thompson and a lineup of NPR Music writers and critics reflect on their favo...
NPR Music+: “Such Great Heights” by The Postal Service
The origin story of The Postal Service is as simple (and twee) as they come: An electronic music producer (Jimmy Tamborello) and an indie ro...
Alt.Latino: Mon Laferte's captivating coda
On this week’s Alt.Latino, Anamaria and I both gush about 'Femme Fatale Vol. 2,' the new album from Chilean-Mexican singer Mon Laferte, who...
The year’s best songs (so far)
It's the midway point of 2026, and it's safe to say that when it comes to the best songs of the year, there's not really any consensus to be...
New Music Friday: The best albums out June 26
Beth Orton. Chanel Beads. Cécile McLorin Salvant. Host Stephen Thompson chats with Ayana Contreras from KUVO in Denver about their favorite...
Alt.Latino: They opened for Miles Davis and Sly Stone, then disappeared
This week's episode is a musical time machine. In the late 1960s, the band Zapata sprang out of a street gang in northwest Washington, D.C.,...
Beck’s ‘Odelay’ at 30, Mitski covers One Direction, more
We share our picks for the best new tracks of the week, including Mitski’s surprising cover of One Direction’s “Fireproof.” But first, we re...