The Thistle & Shamrock: New Fall Sounds
This episode features new music from The Lost Songs of St. Kilda.
Music & Culture
Viking's Choice: Vagabon, 'Fear & Force'
Lætitia Tamko's music exists in the seam of our own history and memory. For Vagabon's debut album, she reworks a fuzzy rocker into something more delicate and subdued.
Songs We Love: Topaz Jones, 'Motion Sickness / Grass'
The singer and rapper chooses funk music and love as means of self-care. In this video, Jones' locs are the symbolic star: a connection to his love interest and to post-relationship baggage.
Here Are The Songs The NPR Politics Podcast Team Never Wants To Hear Again
And it's not just "Fight Song." Sam Sanders, Asma Khalid and Susan Davis run down the music they heard most often on the campaign trail this year.
The Stray Birds On World Cafe
Taking chances made a big difference for the Pennsylvania folk trio on its third album, Magic Fire. Hear the session and watch a performance of "Shining In The Distance."
Songs We Love: Lorenzo Senni, 'Rave Voyeur'
The Italian producer evokes the spiritual elation of '90s rave music along the edge of his Roland JP-8000 Supersaw synth.
18 Albums Just Old Enough To Vote
This election's youngest voters were born in 1998. So were these records, which all turn 18 this year. (Feeling old yet?)
Encore: Renee Montagne Remembers A Legendary Hawaiian Voice
To mark Renee Montagne's last week with Morning Edition, the show is revisiting some of her favorite pieces - including her profile of "the voice of Hawaii," singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.
Jim James On World Cafe
"If one person voted that wouldn't have voted before, then my mission would have been accomplished," the My Morning Jacket frontman says of his new, politically charged album, Eternally Even.
What Was It Like To See Pink Floyd In 1966? Joe Boyd Knows
What was it like to see Pink Floyd at the UFO Club in 1966, or to produce the band's first song? Legendary record producer Joe Boyd explains on this edition of All Songs Considered.