New Music

The women of Dominican electronic trio Mula make synth music that synthesizes their acoustic Caribbean musical heritage.

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Getting 'Triste' With Bryant Myers & Bad Bunny: Our Favorite Latin Songs This Week

7:01am August 01, 2018

This week, Bryant Myers and Bad Bunny dropped a sadboy jam, Dominican trio Mula made female Caribbean electro-pop, and Gilberto Rodriguez y Los Intocables premiere a new track for NPR Music.

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Tim Hecker's 'This Life' Maps Japanese Classical Music Onto Digital Emotions

10:43am July 31, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

The ambient composer's new album, Konoyo, was largely recorded in Japan with an ensemble of gagaku performers, adapting the country's most ancient form of music through digital processing.

"It's really a part of the healing process and the coming-to-terms-with-it-all process," Boz Scaggs says of writing an album after losing his home to wildfires.

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Boz Scaggs Processes The Past And Rebuilds For The Future

8:02am July 29, 2018

Boz Scaggs lost his home and a trove of lyrics scribbled on legal pads and cocktail napkins in wildfires last year. Writing his new album, Out of the Blues, helped him process the loss.

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Heavy Rotation: 10 Hot Summer Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

6:00am July 28, 2018

For this month's playlist, Rebel Diaz and Ana Tijoux reverberate a powerful message to black and brown communities and jazz duo Adam & Kizzie capture the sounds of falling in love.

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No Boys Allowed: In Charli XCX's Latest Single, It's a 'Girls Night Out'

10:30am July 27, 2018

by Catherine Zhang

Charli XCX may be busy thinking about boys, but she isn't inviting them to the party.

Milwaukee rapper WebsterX shares three new songs.

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WebsterX's New Trio Of Songs Denotes His Restless Summer

10:06am July 27, 2018

by Justin Barney

Leading the the hip-hop Renaissance in Milwaukee, 26-year-old rapper Webster X punctuates his three new singles with unbridled charisma and a "who asked you?" mentality.

Phantastic Ferniture's self-titled debut is on our shortlist for the best albums out on July 27.

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New Music Friday For July 27: Six Albums You Should Hear Now

5:00am July 27, 2018

by Robin Hilton

This week's New Music Friday features jangly guitar pop from Tony Molina, a celebration of queerness and the company we keep from Thin Lips, whimsical children's sing-a-longs from Raffi and more.

Queue Listen Now

Amanda Shires' To the Sunset comes out Aug. 3.

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First Listen: Amanda Shires, 'To The Sunset'

3:43pm July 26, 2018

by Jewly Hight

Shires' bright, electric voice and reality-filled lyrics illustrate the power of women pursuing their own impulses, desires and ambitions with abandon.

Loretta Lynn appears on King of the Road: A Tribute.

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Loretta Lynn Celebrates Roger Miller With The Weary Grace Of 'Half A Mind'

10:00am July 26, 2018

by Stephen Thompson

On a new tribute album, Lynn taps into the central tension of Miller's lament, radiating resignation over an arrangement straight out of an antique jukebox.

Lucero's new album, Among the Ghosts, is out August 3.

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First Listen: Lucero, 'Among The Ghosts'

6:50am July 26, 2018

by Brittney McKenna

Lucero, now 20 years strong, captures some of its raw live energy in a way the band hasn't done since its first handful of albums.