Entries We Love: Riley Parker, 'Wilted'
In this Tiny Desk Contest entry, the band reflects on a love that's wilted like plants in a neglected greenhouse.
Music
Near the Polish border, a musician plays music to welcome those fleeing Ukraine
Refugees streaming across the border at the Medyka border crossing into Poland leave behind the air raid sirens and the sounds of war and are welcomed by musician Davide Martello.
Los Lobos founding member Francisco González has died at 68
Francisco González, a founding member of Los Lobos, has died at 68. González left the band in 1976 to continue playing acoustic Mexican folk music, and became a master of Veracruz harp.
OHYUNG, 'yes my weeping frame!'
OHYUNG is better known as a producer of hyperactive hip-hop and pop music, but on a new double cassette plays with shapes of tender ambient sound.
Dreamville (with EARTHGANG), 'Everybody Ain't S***'
Hype instrumentals, with deeply perceptive lyrics that often straddle confidence and arrogance, have become synonymous with EARTHGANG.
'Wet Leg' hooks you with their prickly, raunchy way of looking at the world
Last year, a catchy song called "Chaise Longue" became a breakout hit for a duo of 20-something women from the Isle of Wight. Wet Leg's new self titled album is full of more clever entertainment.
Entries We Love: Figgy Baby, 'Mr. Baron'
This Tiny Desk Contest entry pairs unresolved resentment with childlike joy.
Sunburned Hand of the Man, 'Mental Egg'
A roiling group drone that builds and decays on a bed of whirling, gurgling guitars, languid percussion swells and fever-dream voices wailing.
Mystery recordings will now be heard for the first time in about 100 years
The New York Public Library recently received a machine that will read cracked and scratched wax cylinders — which include some of the earliest recorded audio.
Encore: Barlow & Bear bring musical theater into the TikTok era
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Grammy winners Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear of the group Barlow and Bear about breaking into musical theater via TikTok and their 'Bridgerton' musical.