Encore: Maren Morris Makes Transition From Country Songwriter To Artist
NPR's Audie Cornish spoke to country artist Maren Morris at the annual South by Southwest music conference about her journey and success.
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Songs We Love: RL Grime, What So Not And Skrillex, 'Waiting'
Two years in the making, the track nods to each producer's signature sound, with lush textures, droning horns, and, of course, Skrillex's thunderous bass drop.
Latin Roots: Carla Morrison
Hear the Mexican performer's dramatic indie-pop love songs in this session.
Songs We Love: DIANA, 'What You Get'
The Toronto electro-pop trio is right in your ear and right by your side in a dreamy song that confronts the trickiness of expectations.
Watch Ludovico Einaudi Perform 'Petricor' Live
Watch the pianist and composer, joined by a full band, in a stunning live performance for KCRW.
The Lush Life Of Billy Strayhorn
The composer was remarkable not only for his harmonically rich collaborations with Duke Ellington, but for living as an openly gay black man in the 1940s.
First Listen: Sad13, 'Slugger'
Sadie Dupuis' new solo songs are brimming with taut hooks, layers of flittering keyboards and electronic beats that'll get everyone bobbing and moving on the dance floor instead of in the mosh pit.
First Listen: Bob Dylan, 'The 1966 Live Recordings'
During the months he spent on the road in 1966, Dylan refined a way of inhabiting and transforming his own songs that was different from anything he'd done before.
All Songs +1: Our Most Memorable Tiny Desk Jazz Sets
Patrick Jarenwattananon, former writer for NPR Music's A Blog Supreme, joins us to talk about the most memorable jazz artists to appear at the Tiny Desk.
First Listen: Sleigh Bells, 'Jessica Rabbit'
The duo's fourth album is a testament to the power of a celebration gone weird, with chopped-up and resequenced hooks working as the raw material for a scathing, fragmentary kind of pop.