Aretha Franklin: The Deep Cuts
Staff members of NPR remember the Queen of Soul beyond her No. 1 hits. These are Aretha Franklin's most essential deep cuts.
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Aretha Franklin: In Memoriam Playlist
It's clear why Franklin was the undisputed Queen of Soul. Enjoy a playlist of the singer's biggest hits in a career that spanned decades and defied genre rules.
Aretha Franklin Was America's Truest Voice
Her music has been sung at marches and political rallies, heard in churches and on chain restaurant jukeboxes. Everything popular music can be is there in the songs of Aretha Franklin.
Curtis McMurtry On Mountain Stage
Hear McMurtry's take on the overall improvements in Top 40 music and how Beyonce's ground-breaking album Lemonade gave him partial inspiration to write a song on his latest album.
Kurt Vile Parks For Free In 'Loading Zones'
In the video for his first solo song in three years, Kurt Vile avoids payment while running errands by hopping from loading zone to zone.
First Listen: Lucie Silvas, 'E.G.O.'
The British-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter depicts the collision of self-importance and insecurity from an earthier, more conversational angle.
First Listen: Nothing, 'Dance On The Blacktop'
Domenic Palermo channels a lifetime of tragedy into Nothing's blustery distortion, scorching riffs and stirring melodies.
Wattstax: The Benefit Concert From The Past That Echoes Into The Present
In a summer full of anniversaries, the 1972 Wattstax concert in Los Angeles probably doesn't stick out. But Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia, of NPR's What's Good With Stretch and Bobbito podcast, have good reason to talk about it.
Erykah Badu On Stand-Up, Meeting Prince And 'Unpopular Opinions'
Badu joins Stretch & Bobbito for a conversation about her daily visit to "the five doctors," how she became a certified doula, her desire to try stand-up comedy and getting critiqued by Prince.
In Few Words, The 1975's 'TooTimeTooTimeTooTime' Asks Us To Slow Down
The quiet synth-pop song illuminates a delicate to-and-fro with a crush who maybe has eyes elsewhere.