Brent Cobb's 'King Of Alabama' Choogles For A Fallen Road Dog
The country-rock troubadour pays tribute to a friend and mentor. Providence Canyon is out May 11.
Music & Culture
Michael Tilson Thomas: Why Is Music So Good At Conveying Emotion?
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas traces the history of classical music, revealing its power to present a variety of complex human emotions.
Eddie Kramer Completes Posthumous Jimi Hendrix Trilogy With 'Both Sides Of The Sky'
Producer and engineer Eddie Kramer brings continuity and freshness to Hendrix's posthumous canon with a new album.
Flasher's Stylish 'Skim Milk' Escapes To The Unknown
The D.C. post-punk trio's first single as a newly-signed Domino Records group sounds like an ecstatic hall of mirrors.
Wax Idols Fight Against The Dying Of The Light In 'Scream'
As the first single off the band's upcoming album, Happy Ending, "Scream" is an empowered thesis statement on mortality writ in thundering dream-pop.
BØRNS On World Cafe
The avant-garde electro-pop artist talks about getting praise from Prince and working with Lana Del Rey.
The Early-Bird Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Love
You can still enter the Tiny Desk Contest for a few more weeks, but here are some entries that have caught the eyes — and ears — of NPR Music already.
Beach House Ventures Beyond The Velvet With 'Dive'
On "Dive," the conception of Beach House — golden and celestial — gets torn up and rearranged into another, messier composition. It's a glorious evolution.
First Listen: Hot Snakes, 'Jericho Sirens'
On its first new album in 14 years, Hot Snakes delivers a collection of 10 bent and bruised punk songs alive with the sound of an itch impossible to scratch.
First Listen: PRhyme, 'PRhyme 2'
Royce 5'9" and DJ Premier bridge the ageist divide with a sophomore release worthy of definitive hip-hop statesmen.