Darlingside On Mountain Stage
Hear from the Massachusetts folk-pop band, which made host Larry Groce's favorite song of 2015.
Music & Culture
Ring In The New Year, 'Screwmbia' Style
Pump up your New Year's Eve dance party with help from Alt.Latino and Texas "screwmbia" DJ Luis Espada, better known as King Louie of the Peligrosa collective.
KCRW Presents: Foals
Watch the U.K. rock band perform the stadium-ready "What Went Down" live at L.A.'s Apogee Studio.
First Listen: Hinds, 'Leave Me Alone'
Debut album from Spanish all-girl, garage-pop quartet is the sound of youthful energy, beginners' confidence and a band settling into exactly what it wanted to be all along.
First Listen: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto & Bryce Dessner, 'The Revenant'
The score gives Alejandro González Iñárritu's film its emotional baseline, summoning the profound disquiet of a forbidding winter in the American West.
With No Museum, Thousands Of Mexican Instruments Pile Into This Apartment
One man in Mexico City has amassed a collection that spans the country's history, from precolonial times to the present. Guillermo Contreras says they are the "most precious creations of humanity."
In Memoriam 2015
NPR Music remembers musicians — singers, songwriters, instrumentalists — and other visionaries we lost in 2015. Explore and celebrate their musical legacies.
2015: Looking Back On A Year At The Tiny Desk
This year, NPR Music published 84 sessions from behind Bob Boilen's desk. From a 23-piece band to a lone guitarist to a massive dance party, here are 15 highlights.
A Rational Conversation: Rembert Browne On Music In 2015, Even During The Hard Times
The writer-at-large for New York magazine discusses the year that saw the rise of Fetty Wap and Young Thug, Snapchat vs. Twitter and Meek Mill vs. Drake. Plus: continuous devastation.
In The Podcast World, Some Music Students Seek A Career Gateway
One of the nation's most prestigious music schools is filling classes with students whose work will likely never make them famous.