Eight New Artists To Watch In 2018, From 'Slingshot'
NPR Music partner stations talk with All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen about the new and emerging artists they're most excited about in 2018.
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A Room Of One's Own: How Household's 'Items' Confronts The Limits Of Domesticity
In life and in art, women are often confined to interior spaces. But the 2011 album subverts confinement with its distinctly feminine tale of disappointment, disillusionment and domestic life.
Slingshot: Sessions With The Class Of 2018
Get a look inside the studio for live performances from Phoebe Bridgers, Jade Bird and Bedouine — three artists in a new group of exceptional young talent.
Kendrick Lamar And President Trump Were Two Ships Passing In The Night
The political irony was mostly symbolic, as Trump left the National College Football Championship before Lamar's halftime show took place just outside the stadium.
Hear Stephin Merritt, Katie Crutchfield Sing On Superchunk's 'Erasure'
When you've got nearly 30 years of bombastic power-punk behind you, it's fairly easy to convince people to join you in a sing-along.
Songs We Love: Soccer Mommy, 'Your Dog'
The first single from Sophie Allison's forthcoming album Clean is both a post-breakup kiss-off and an anthem demanding respect and agency.
Hear 'All Nerve,' From The Breeders' First New Album In 10 Years
All Nerve, out March 2, brings together a Breeders lineup that hadn't recorded together since the band's 1993 classic Last Splash.
Car Seat Headrest's 'Twin Fantasy' Is A 'New' Album Viewed Through Rearview Mirrors
Car Seat Headrest remakes and reimagines the 2011 album 'Twin Fantasy' in ways not possible when it was recorded in 2011. Hear the maturation, and see Will Toledo's directorial debut.
In A Dystopic New Video, Son Lux Examines Truth And An Unsettling Future
"Slowly," the latest single from Son Lux's upcoming album Brighter Wounds, takes an unnerving look at life in the age of alternative facts and fake news.
Meet The 2017 Slingshot Artists
In 2017, public radio stations highlighted indie rock band Big Thief, singer and poet Jamila Woods and pop trio Lo Moon.