This Tiny Desk Contest entrant own the dancefloor she creates, jumping around her space while expertly navigating her tech and singing with crystal clarity.
The Seattle musician and their hard-hitting band fuse rock, soul, hip-hop, pop and R&B for songs that teem with insights about identity, injustice and power.
The Library of Congress adds 25 new recordings to a national registry every year to be preserved for posterity. The 2022 list includes an album by Alicia Keys and historical broadcasts from WNYC.
After a decade of research, a couple from Maine has published a book of seafaring folk songs rarely heard in the last 80 years. (This story originally aired on All Things Considered on Feb. 16, 2022.)
A single from Allen's 1980 album, soon to be reissued, finds the singer on the road from his home state of Texas, pointed to California, poised between country music tradition and something wilder.
Suitably recorded in the kitchen, this Tiny Desk Contest entry celebrates the romantic intimacy of sharing meals and underlies the mortifying vulnerability of courtship.