by Bob Boilen Courtesy of the artist When an old musical "friend" puts out a record, I secretly pray for greatness, as if rooting for a favorite team. These later records often pale in compar...
by Bob Boilen iStockphoto.com Bob Boilen had more than 25,000 songs stored on his laptops hard drive. Now there are none. I just deleted over 25,000 songs from my iTunes library. I am going to trust ...
by Robin Hilton Bob Boilen and I are taking our show on the road! Its time we busted out of this two-bit joint and mingled with the worlds great unwashed. So heres what were doing: This summer, well ...
by Robin Hilton A beautifully frenetic electronic-pop oddball — and we mean that in the greatest way — Dan Deacon has announced plans to release a new full-length album this summer. Its triumphantly ...
by Bob Boilen A still from Neil Youngs film, Americana. Neil Young and Crazy Horse have a new record coming out Tuesday. Americana is blistering guitar romp through the classic American songbook, fro...
by Robin Hilton When we began our search for the albums everyone can love a couple of weeks ago, we neglected to include the "havent heard" option in our first survey (hey, this music stuff i...
by Robin Hilton Robin Hilton The Hilton family all dressed up, possibly for the John Denver show at Kemper Arena. Robins the one in the light blue suit, with the lapels. How, for better or worse, has...
by Bob Boilen Courtesy of the artist Shortly after The Beatles broke up and the ugly personal and legal feuds began, Paul and Linda McCartney fled "to the heart of the country." They headed t...
by Robin Hilton Shantel Mitchell/For NPR Music Wild Flag (and former Sleater-Kinney) drummer Janet Weiss, performing live at the NPR Music day party, during the South by Southwest Music Festival in A...
by Otis Hart Courtesy of the artist Electronic music producer and DJ Monty Luke, who will perform at the Movement Electronic Music Festival in Detroit on Monday. Theres an awesome music festival taki...
by Robin Hilton Note: This weeks All Songs Considered offers a preview of the upcoming Maryland Deathfest. Courtesy of the artist As a small child in the 70s, metal bands absolutely horrified me. I d...
by Robin Hilton Is it possible to make a top ten list of albums everyone can agree on? With your help, were going to try! Each week, now through the summer, were asking you to give us a thumbs up or ...
by Dan Raby Warning: This post, about a song by Balthrop, Alabama (a 10-piece Brooklyn band, not a extremely musical township), includes numerous instances of coordinated jazz hands and chorus line k...
by Dan Raby Maybe YACHT wouldnt be that sad if the complete and total annihilation of the human race happened tomorrow. The video for their song "Beam Me Up," off their recent album Shangri-L...
by Sami Yenigun Courtesy of the artist The concept behind Ghettos and Gardens is simple: pretty strings over gritty basslines; dainty vocals atop punchy percussion; beautiful and foul servings of 4/4...
by Robin Hilton On May 31, well live webcast and broadcast a concert by Regina Spektor from New Yorks Le Poisson Rouge. Youll be able to watch the whole thing live on NPR Music and via our apps as it...
by Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton What record could you put on that would make everyone happy? What are the albums you think we can all agree on? Thats our summer project, to find the 10 albums everyone...
by Dan Raby Can a song thats about the fragility of life and the struggle to survive make you want to bounce around merrily? Somehow the Spinto Bands new song, "The Living Things," does just ...
by Robin Hilton I havent kept an official ticker, but if government agents kicked in my door and forced me to pick the one album Ive listened to more than any other, Id have to say Neil Youngs Everyb...
by Dan Raby Take a humongous group of excitable jokers who have too much free time on their hands, mix in enough instruments to satisfy an entire marching band variety, toss a few gigantic pom poms a...
by Jenna Strucko Note: This is a recurring series in which we ask our unimaginably young interns to review classic albums theyve never heard before. Until very recently, Jenna Strucko was an intern f...
by Bob Boilen Courtesy of the artist Americanas cover art. Youve never heard "Shell Be Coming Round the Mountain" quite like this. For their first album together in nine years, Neil Young and...
by Bob Boilen Larry Marano/Getty Images The Beach Boys on their 50th Anniversary tour. (L-R) Brian Wilson, David Marks, Mike Love and Al Jardine. On Wednesday night in New York, I saw The Beach Boys ...
by Bob Boilen Justin Jones is a local D.C. talent. Ive seen him a number of times often as an opening act. Ive enjoyed his music but it wasnt until this new record that I went "WOW!" Jones ha...
by Sami Yenigun Courtesy of the artist Not every title fits its song, but Painting On A Canvas, the fourth track from the Iranian-Canadian producer Amiralis debut LP, which comes out next week, makes...
by Bob Boilen I remember so clearly when Paul Simon headed to South Africa. His trip there was controversial in the midst of growing boycotts surrounding apartheid. I imagined with odd certainty that...
by Jacob Ganz Alysse Gafkjen Dr. John (right) with Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach, who produced Locked Down. In April, the pair played songs from the album at the Brooklyn Academy of Music....
by Lars Gotrich Christy Parry As a kid, Mlny Parsonz found her voice by growling a Whitney Houston song in the back of a van. Royal Thunder is at a crucial point in its young career. The Atlanta hard...
by Bob Boilen Magnetic Fields The Magnetic Fields video Quick! The second video from The Magnetic Fields 2012 album Love at the Bottom of the Sea is called Quick! Its, of course, about love — in this...
by Bob Boilen Michael Ochs Archives Freddie Merucury, performing live with Queen, circa 1970. Few flamboyant men fill the stages at shows I go to these days. One exception: fun. We webcast that bands...
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