New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 23
Anderson .Paak and Cordae. Michael Kiwanuka. Fenne Lily. Host Stephen Thompson breaks down the best albums out Friday, Oct. 23 with DJs from...
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Hosts/nerds Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are your friendly music buddies with the week's best new music discoveries, including conversations with emerging artists, icons and more. Hear songs...
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Over and Over: "Crimson and Clover" by Tommy James and the Shondells (NPR+)
More than any song we’ve covered yet in this series about songs that persist in culture, "Crimson and Clover" is a stealth classic. Maybe yo...
Alt.Latino: Los Tigres' Tiny Desk, explained
Last week we published a Tiny Desk Concert that ended up being unusual for a few reasons. First of all, it was the final production of our s...
Elephant 6's rapturous, heartbreaking story
With the arrival of the first new Olivia Tremor Control album in nearly 30 years, we attempt to make sense of the sprawling, enigmatic colle...
New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 16
Fontaines D.C. Sophia Stel. The Avalanches. Host Stephen Thompson breaks down the best albums out Friday, Oct. 16 with DJs from around the N...
Alt.Latino: Every El Tiny song has a secret
The Tiny Desk’s magnetism is its intimacy. We strip back lights and a big stage and get to see artists speak honestly about who they are dir...
A new canon of Halloween music
Who’s the Mariah Carey of Halloween? Labels and artists are trying to capitalize on spooky season, but these are the songs that belong in th...
Interview: Fontaines D.C.'s decadent, dystopian 'Dopamine Chamber'
At almost exactly the midpoint of our conversation about the fifth album made by his band, Fontaines D.C., Grian Chatten told me, “It's an i...
Interview: Troye Sivan is leaning into loneliness
Troye Sivan’s 2023 album, 'Something to Give Each Other,' marked a turning point in the Australian singer-songwriter’s career. Its choreo-dr...
New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 9
Cameron Winter. Troye Sivan. Remi Wolf. Host Stephen Thompson breaks down the best albums out Friday, Oct. 9 with DJs from around the NPR Mu...
Alt.Latino: Tim, The Beatles and all of Brazil
The music of Tim Bernardes fits as easily in the poetry of the cosmos as it does in the songwriting canon of his country. Brazil has a legac...
How The Beatles made ‘Rubber Soul’ and broke up with their past
A super deluxe box set of The Beatles' legendary 1965 album Rubber Soul has just been released with brand new mixes, demos and outtakes that...
New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 2
Victoria Monét. Meshell Ndegeocello. Sons of Sevilla. Host Stephen Thompson breaks down the best albums out Friday, Oct. 2, with DJs from ar...
Alt.Latino: Melissa Aldana and Gonzalo Rubalcaba talk jazz
Jazz has often been called America's musical gift to the world. This week's guests remind us not only of the well-documented ways that Cuba...
Phoebe Bridgers, Gilla Band, Wednesday, and more of the week’s best songs
We get big and loud this week with a surprise drop from Phoebe Bridgers and her song “On Video,” from the Primetime soundtrack; the monstrou...
New Music Friday: The best albums out Sept. 25
Leon Bridges. Blondshell. Joy Oladokun. Host Stephen Thompson breaks down the best albums out Friday, Sept. 18 with DJs from around the NPR...
Alt.Latino: YEИDRY's life in six songs
YEИDRY's music is almost as diverse she is. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Italy, the singer’s repertoire of genre and sound p...
Lizzy McAlpine, Víkingur Ólafsson plays Bach, and more of the week's best songs
Our latest mix of the week’s best new songs swings from the shoegaze rock of rising LA band untitled (halo) to Bach’s “Air on the G String”...
Sylvan Esso: The NPR Music Interview
In September 2025, the electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso made headlines with the announcement that it was removing its catalog from Spotify. The w...
New Music Friday: The best albums out Sept. 18
Beck. Carly Rae Jepsen. Beabadoobee. Host Stephen Thompson breaks down the best albums out Friday, Sept. 18 with DJs from around the NPR Mus...