Alabama Shakes. Mike D. Interpol. Host Stephen Thompson chats with Sean Carolan of WBJB in New Jersey about their favorite ...

April 28, 2026 • Our latest picks for the week’s best new songs include Olivia Rodrigo’s head-over-heels earworm “drop dead,” ...

Roséwave is a feeling more than a singular sound or genre. It’s the kind of sweetness and sadness that underscores the long, ...

The popular music program set out this June on a mission to honor an entity that has been a constant in Black households for generations. Throughout Black Music Month, NPR opted to weave a love letter ...

Weird Al' Yankovic squeezed his 8-person band into NPR's Tiny Desk for an all-parody song set featuring four classic tracks: ...

In April, the NPR Music podcast celebrated the season for starting over by cobbling together a playlist of tunes to help you hit the reset button. These are songs that can reconfigure your outlook, ...

BTS. Alex Isley. Dubstep-infused hyperpop from underscores. NPR Music's Hazel Cills chats with Francesca Harding of member station KCRW in Los... New Music Friday: The best albums out March 20 Welcome ...

A new multimedia project led by NPR will allow fans of the Grateful Dead to explore the Bay Area jam band's legacy like never before. Launching Saturday, Aug. 1, which would have been Grateful Dead ...

Festivalgoers cheer for The Hip Abduction at All Good Now festival in June at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. (KT Kanazawich for NPR) During this year's Days Between — from August 1 and ...

Death Cab for Cutie is the latest artist to guest on NPR's Tiny Desk performance series.Ben Gibbard and company set up behind the titular tiny desk and began the set with "Pep Talk" and "Stone Over ...

As he finished his “Tiny Desk” set with “Like You,” Bow Wow beamed with pride. For much of his career, he was synonymous with BET. His music videos played constantly. As he grew from a child rapper to ...