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New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 18
NPR Music's Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to this week's most compelling new musical offerings. For October 18, their selections incl…
1 year, 5 months ago
Celebrating the legacy of Celia Cruz
To celebrate the release of a new book from NPR Music, How Women Made Music, as well as the 50th anniversary this year of the album Celia & Johnny, F…
1 year, 5 months ago
The most terrifying film scores of all time
We celebrate spooky season with an unnerving mix of songs from our favorite horror movie scores, including The Shining, Under The Skin, Hereditary an…
1 year, 5 months ago
New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 11
The rapper-turned-country star Jelly Roll, who has had a major breakthrough in Nashville in the last couple of years, leads the pack of the most exci…
1 year, 5 months ago
Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Rosalía, Twanguero and Wyatt Flores
Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre are back with a new music show, featuring Rosalía, Helado Negro, Wyatt Flores and more.
Songs featured in this epis…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Contenders, Vol. 18: The songs we can't stop playing this week
Reflections on regret from beabadoobee and Bon Iver, deep sonic meditations from Nala Sinephro and Jill Fraser, and more updates to our running list …
1 year, 6 months ago
New Music Friday: The best albums out Oct. 4
NPR Music's Lars Gotrich and Sheldon Pearce round up the most exciting albums out this Friday, and reflect on the history of instrumental music as pr…
1 year, 6 months ago
The songs we can't stop playing on repeat
Alt.Latino is usually all about sharing new music across Latin America, but what about the older cuts Ana and Felix are obsessed with?
On this episode…
1 year, 6 months ago
'How Women Made Music'
How Women Made Music, a new book out now from NPR, considers what the canon of popular music would look like without men.
On this episode, we dig into…
1 year, 6 months ago
New Music Friday: The best albums out Sept. 27
As NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers discuss on this week's episode, there's a thread of loss running through some of the most notable, th…
1 year, 6 months ago