First Listen: Alvvays, 'Antisocialites'
The Toronto indie-rock band's sophomore album builds on the promise of its celebrated debut.
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First Listen: Neil Young, 'Hitchhiker'
Neil Young's storied acoustic recordings from 1976 finally see release as an official album. Stream early versions of "Pocahontas," "Powderfinger," "Ride My Llama," and much more.
First Listen: Kip Moore, 'Slowheart'
The Nashville singer and songwriter filters elements of heartland rock, heroic rebellion and heart-on-sleeve emo through a soulful, solitary misfit persona.
First Listen: Gregg Allman, 'Southern Blood'
A rock 'n' roll lifer says goodbye on his own terms.
Love In A Time Of Urbanization: The Twofold Vulnerability Of An East African Pop Hit
"I Miss You" is a love song by Tanzanian superstar Diamond Platnumz. This song of the summer touches on a big social problem for a booming part of the African continent.
'What's Good': Bobbito Describes How Stevie Wonder 'Speaks To One's Soul'
Stevie Wonder brought his A game to the newest episode of NPR's "What's Good" podcast. Co-host Robert "Bobbito" Garcia talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro about what it was like talking with one of America's most creative and prolific musicians.
U2 Performs New Song 'The Blackout' From Its Upcoming Album 'Songs Of Experience'
U2 unveils the latest from Songs of Experience -- a characteristically buoyant, but worryingly saccharine, cut of shivering guitar, bass punch and end-times reckoning.
Forebears: The Teenage Wisdom Of 'Lesley Gore Sings Of Mixed-Up Hearts'
Gore's impenetrable confidence singing emotionally complex songs humanized the image of the teen girl, adding an authoritative female teenage perspective to the Top 40.
Courtney Barnett And Kurt Vile Are Just Two Peas In A Pod, Continents Apart
Watch a charming video for "Over Everything," the first single from Barnett and Vile's album-length collaboration, Lotta Sea Lice, due Oct. 13.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 'Undoing A Luciferian Towers' Brings A Reckoning
Godspeed You! Black Emperor makes wordless music that nevertheless shouts like a street-corner prophet. The band's new album, Luciferian Towers, comes out Sept. 22.