The Good Listener: Where Are All The Great Lullabies?
We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and alongside the shipment of cat sedatives that have us pondering just how often we order shipments of cat sedatives is a slew of smart questions about how music...
View ArticleThe Giant Foam Finger: If Serena Williams Loses, Is It Still The U.S. Open?
When Gene Demby and I were planning this week's sports discussion, we didn't say, "We should sit down Monday to discuss the U.S. Open." We'd planned to discuss Serena Williams, the most dominant player...
View ArticleFor 20 Minutes, The Grammys Transcend The Awards-Show Blahs
Sometime tomorrow, Linda Holmes and I will break down Monday night's Grammys telecast in a Small Batch edition of Pop Culture Happy Hour . And, for a variety of reasons, we're not likely to spend much...
View ArticleOscar Winner Glen Hansard Returns To Movie Music
Glen Hansard 's career includes a brilliant quarter-century with his rock band The Frames , a fruitful foray into statelier folk-pop with The Swell Season and, most recently, a pair of elegant,...
View ArticleKendrick Lamar Wins Big In The VMAs' Jarring Jumble Of Moments
MTV is the TV network most widely associated with short attention spans. So it makes sense that its Video Music Awards would function as a jarring and disjointed jumble of moments — a howl of protest...
View ArticleIt's Time To Say Thnks Fr Th Mmrs To Vans Warped Tour
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: And now a goodbye to the Warped Tour. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE ROCK SHOW") BLINK-182: (Singing) I couldn't wait for the summer and the Warped...
View ArticleTom Petty Showed Grace And Beauty In Songwriting
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Tom Petty wrote a lot of hits during his more than 40 years making music. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "AMERICAN GIRL") TOM PETTY: (Singing) Well, she...
View ArticleThe Austin 100
In the middle of every March, the SXSW Music Festival fills Austin, Texas, with thousands of musicians from around the world. It's a marathon so daunting — it's a marathon and a sprint, really — that...
View ArticleFrightened Rabbit Singer Scott Hutchison Found Dead At 36
Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchison, whose bleak but often triumphantly arranged rock songs tackled depression, anxiety and self-doubt, was found dead at Port Edgar near South Queensberry,...
View ArticleThe MTV VMAs Celebrate Camila Cabello And Cardi B, While Madonna Celebrates...
Childish Gambino's " This Is America " and The Carters' " APES*** " were the most talked-about videos of the last year, at least if the metric you use involves thinkpieces and social-media chatter. But...
View ArticleWeep With Saintseneca's 'Pillar Of Na' In 4/4 Time
Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Bandcamp playlist at the bottom of the page. The Ohio folk-rock band Saintseneca has carved...
View ArticleHear Chris Cornell's Wrenching Cover Of 'Nothing Compares 2 U'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INXPoVcpa1w When Chris Cornell died last year , he left behind a sweeping and complex recorded legacy: He'd lent his voice to one of the biggest bands in rock (...
View ArticleAll Songs Considered: The Year In Music 2018
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View ArticleThe Best Tiny Desk Concerts Of 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W23gEiUwne0 The NPR Music offices in Washington, D.C., published 127 Tiny Desk concerts this year — 128 if you count the time we thought you'd enjoy watching our piano...
View Article10 Takeaways From The 2019 Grammy Awards
We made it, everyone! This year's Grammy Awards telecast rolled past the three-and-a-half-hour mark with its share of controversies, but also served up a string of satisfying winners, memorable...
View ArticleSXSW Music Preview
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Let's talk music now because the annual South by Southwest music festival kicks off tomorrow. Thousands - and I mean thousands - of musicians...
View ArticleWatch BTS Further Its Quest For World Domination On The 'SNL' Stage
YouTube A multilingual K-pop juggernaut, BTS mashes up pop, hip-hop, rock and dance music with huge, infectious energy and kinetic choreography. It's one of the biggest bands in the world, and as of...
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