First Listen: The Echocentrics, 'Echo Hotel'
Listening to Adrian Quesada's latest project is like stepping into an alternate reality — an unhurried place with time to contemplate love, loss and longtime friends.
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Rokia Traore On World Cafe
The Malian singer explores the meaning of home in her new album, Né So. Hear the live session.
Songs We Love: James Blake, 'I Need A Forest Fire (Feat. Bon Iver)'
On a quietly violent new collaboration, the duo confronts their own debt to the soul of gospel music while acknowledging their inevitable distance from it.
The Thistle & Shamrock: Tales Of The Riverbank
Rivers run through many of our well-loved and best-known landscapes. Music, old and new, celebrates our rivers as sources of life and of timeless inspirations to song-makers.
What's Your Favorite Song This Week?
There's been no shortage of new music to listen to these past couple of weeks. Have you fallen in love with a new song that you can't stop listening to?
Recommended Dose: Our Favorite Dance Tracks Right Now
This month's mix features disco-house, '80s throwbacks, some acidic Afrobeat, a mix of mbira and 808s, and a great soulful cover of Prince.
First Listen: Mudcrutch, '2'
Tom Petty's old band returns with a cleansing wash of classic rock, crafted with just the right touch of sweet-natured sentimentality.
Viking's Choice: Dust Moth, 'Lift'
Featuring members of These Arms Are Snakes and Giza, the Seattle band injects some soul into world-weary doom.
'Morning Edition' Listeners Get Creative With Show's Theme
David Greene and Renee Montagne share more covers and remixes of the Morning Edition theme produced by listeners. We'll hear bluegrass, reggae and electronic versions of the theme.
'There Was More I Wanted To Say': Kate Tempest Turns Hit Album Into A Novel
The rapper's debut album, Everybody Down, followed Becky and Harry, two Londoners struggling with love, work and drugs. Now her new book, The Bricks That Built The Houses, takes a look at their pasts.