Songs We Love: Windy & Carl, 'Christmas Song'
The shoegazing tune feels a little like a lost Christmas carol: faded with time, but still echoing lightly through the winter air.
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Bon Iver, Live In Concert
Watch Bon Iver play a full concert, including songs from 22, A Million, at Pioneer Works, a cavernous warehouse in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Return To Daddy
Aphex Twin's first U.S. performance in eight years brought out the elements and cosmic comedy.
The 2016 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll
Critic Francis Davis surveyed the jazz community to determine the best albums of the year. The winner has had a very good 2016.
Gucci Mane Is Happy, Healthy — And Productive As Ever
The prolific rapper and mentor recorded a song the day he got out of federal prison this May — and he's put out 10 projects this year. His secret? "Don't never drop your head," he says.
Alt.Latino Listeners Pick The Best Of 2016
There was so much great Latin music this year that we had to ask listeners to add their own choices and voices to our list.
The Thistle & Shamrock: Midwinter Music
Travel into the magical traditions of midwinter through some spellbinding music of the season.
Nashville Sessions: Gillian Welch And David Rawlings
"It was always difficult for us to find the time to stop writing new songs and look at old songs," Welch says. The 20th anniversary of her debut gave them that opportunity this year.
Viking's Choice: So Stressed, 'The King's Wig'
More love songs should sound like a vintage Dodge Charger slamming into a brick wall. In "The King's Wig," the Sacramento noise-punk band channels the chaotic scuzz of Spazz with ramming speed.
Songs We Love: Big Freedia, 'Rudy, The Big Booty Reindeer'
New Orleans' Queen of Bounce teaches us that your oddest qualities might be the things that make you the most fabulous