Recommended Dose: Our Favorite Dance Tracks Right Now
Hear new tunes from heavy-hitters Leon Vynehall and LCD Soundsystem's Gavin Russom, hyped youngsters Mikael Seifu and LNS, and more.
Music & Culture
Remembering Nikolaus Harnoncourt
The incisive conductor and early-music expert died Saturday at age 86. His recordings of such composers as Bach and Mozart made him a legend.
Songs We Love: Underworld, 'Ova Nova'
One of electronic music's iconic bands returns with a gorgeous, melodic reminder of how far they've come.
Julien Baker: Tiny Desk Concert
The young Tennessee singer-songwriter performs three of her spare, sad, simple songs at the NPR Music offices.
Song Premiere: Weaves, 'One More'
An in-your-face song about extremes from an intense, quirky and loud new band that will put out its debut album in June.
Folk Alley Presents: The Cactus Blossoms
Minneapolis' Jack Torrey and Page Burkum perform a lazy love song at the 30A Songwriters Festival.
Mississippi Debuts Grammy Museum
A new Grammy Museum is opening in the Mississippi Delta. It pays tribute to the region considered to be the birthplace of American music. NPR's Debbie Elliott has a preview.
Listening To Kendrick's Past In The Present
Out of nowhere, Kendrick Lamar dropped a new record this week, called untitled unmastered. Reviewer Kiana Fitzgerald says that listening to these demos "feels like we're playing catch-up."
Esperanza Spalding Brings A Real Inner Child Into The Studio
"My job is working for her," Spalding says of the namesake character on her new album, Emily's D+Evolution. The jazz bassist and singer wrote her latest music with her childhood self in mind.
Barbershop: Chris Rock, Nina And Kendrick
Ravi Patel, Kara Brown and Alex Gale join the Barbershop to talk about Chris Rock's Oscars performance, a polarizing casting decision for a Nina Simone biopic and the surprise Kendrick Lamar album.