The Contenders, Vol. 10: The songs we can't stop playing this week
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our biweekly update of the year's best tracks is a mix full of "the hurries and the worries" from Al...
New Music Friday: The best albums out May 24
24 May 2024
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On our survey of the week's most exciting new albums, WRTI's Nate Chinen and NPR Music's Sheldon Pea...
Songs that hit you hard (2023)
21 May 2024
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We asked listeners to tell us about a song they ugly cried to or just couldn't stop playing. On this...
New Music Friday: The best albums out May 17
17 May 2024
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NPR Music's Stephen Thompson and Hazel Cills discuss new releases by Billie Eilish, Portishead's Bet...
Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Wyatt Flores, Danny Ocean and Grupo Frontera
15 May 2024
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Ana and Felix collect their favorite recent releases from the past few months, including new materia...
The Contenders, Vol. 9: The songs we can't stop playing this week
14 May 2024
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We update our running list of the year's best songs with new ones from Dominic Fike, WILLOW, Kamasi ...
New Music Friday: The best albums out May 10
10 May 2024
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This week's episode of New Music Friday from All Songs Considered showcases artists stretching limit...
Mother's Day Special: Celebrating moms and the music they loved
07 May 2024
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Get your hanky out. With Mother's Day nearing, listeners share the songs that remind them of their m...
New Music Friday: The best albums out May 3
03 May 2024
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On the May 3 episode of New Music Friday, NPR Music's Hazel Cills and WRTI's Nate Chinen discuss the...
Alt.Latino's favorite Tiny Desk Contest entries
01 May 2024
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It's the 10th annual Tiny Desk contest and there's been a strong showing of Latin artists behind des...
The Contenders, Vol. 8: The songs we can't stop playing this week
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brittany Luse, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, joins All Songs Considered's Robin Hilton to update...
New Music Friday: The best albums out April 26
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Sheldon Pearce discuss new albums from St. Vincent, Charley Crocke...
Cruel songs for the cruelest month
23 Apr 2024
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Is April, as T.S. Eliot put it, the cruelest month? We reflect on the question with a mix that's bot...
New Music Friday: Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets' and the best albums out April 19
19 Apr 2024
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NPR Music's Ann Powers and Hazel Cills dig into Taylor Swift's 'The Tortured Poets Department,' whic...
Alt.Latino's New Music Roundup: Young Miko, The Mavericks and more
17 Apr 2024
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Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite new music, from Puerto Rican rapper Young...
The Contenders, Vol. 7: The songs we can't stop playing this week
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's update to our list of the year's best songs includes thunderous shoegaze from Wisp, a cl...
New Music Friday: The best albums out April 12
12 Apr 2024
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NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce and WRTI's Nate Chinen take you through the biggest new releases of the w...
Songs to make you laugh, with 'Weird Al' Yankovic
09 Apr 2024
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"Weird Al" Yankovic helps curate a mix of some of the funniest songs of all time, from classics like...
New Music Friday: The best albums out April 5
05 Apr 2024
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It's a big week for fans of early aughts rock bands, with new releases from The Black Keys and Vampi...
Tracing the history of Latino artists making country music
04 Apr 2024
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The release of Beyoncés Cowboy Carter has sparked a national conversation about who gets to sing co...
Everything you need to know about Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter'
03 Apr 2024
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Our friends at Pop Culture Happy Hour dig into the highly anticipated Cowboy Carter and consider whe...
The Contenders Vol. 6: The songs we can't stop playing this week
02 Apr 2024
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We update our running list of the year's best songs with Charlotte Day Wilson's beguiling "Canopy," ...
What do we really want from Shakira?
30 Mar 2024
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Shakira just released her first album in seven years, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, and most listeners a...
New Music Friday: The best albums out March 29
29 Mar 2024
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Beyoncé's breathlessly-anticipated Act II: Cowboy Carter is finally here, and NPR Music's Sheldon P...
Relax: Songs to calm the nerves
26 Mar 2024
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It's music to the rescue on this week's All Songs Considered, with a mix of songs to slow the blood,...
In conversation: Tierra Whack opens up
23 Mar 2024
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NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael interviews the rap visionary about her new album, faking it until you ...
New Music Friday: The best albums out March 22
22 Mar 2024
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Though it isn't quite as packed with huge names as last week, we're digging through another robust a...
Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Elsa y Elmar, Julieta Eugenio, Esteman and more
21 Mar 2024
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The weather's heating up and so are the music releases. The hosts of Alt.Latino share their most qui...
The Contenders, Vol. 5: Our running list of the year's best songs
19 Mar 2024
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We update our tally of the year's best contenders with the effervescent Bombay Bicycle Club, Residen...
New Music Friday: The best albums out March 15
15 Mar 2024
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It feels like the first major springtime release week of 2024. Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen disc...
Spring preview 2024
12 Mar 2024
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World Cafe's Raina Douris joins NPR's Sheldon Pearce and host Robin Hilton to talk about the most an...
New Music Friday: The best albums out March 8
08 Mar 2024
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A wave of springtime releases might be just around the corner, but the biggest albums out this week ...
Sounds from Havana: A brief history of Cuban music
06 Mar 2024
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Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras visited Cuba and give us an audio-rich tour of Havan...
The Contenders, Vol. 4: Our running list of the year's best songs
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brittany Luse, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, joins NPR's Stephen Thompson and host Robin Hilton ...
New Music Friday: The best albums out March 1
01 Mar 2024
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Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce discuss Faye Webster's Underdressed at the Symphony and a handful of t...
Beck's 'Loser' at 30 and the golden age of slacker rock
27 Feb 2024
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Nothing on mainstream radio sounded like Beck's "Loser" when it dropped in 1994. Thirty years later,...
New Music Friday: The best albums out Feb. 23
23 Feb 2024
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Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen discuss Hurray for the Riff Raff's career-defining new album The Pa...
Alt.Latino's best new music round-up: Residente, La Yegros and El Cuarteto de Nos
21 Feb 2024
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Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre round up their favorite new music, including Southern Cone rock a...
The Contenders, Vol. 3: Our running list of the year's best songs
20 Feb 2024
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Host Robin Hilton hangs with composer and artist Julia Holter and NPR's Lars Gotrich to gab about th...
New Music Friday: 5 albums out Feb. 16, plus 'Rhapsody in Blue' still thrills at 100
16 Feb 2024
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NPR Music's Felix Contreras and WRTI's Nate Chinen run down new albums by Gaby Mareno, Les Amazones ...
Mix messages: Listeners share the songs that say 'I've got a crush on you'
13 Feb 2024
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We asked listeners to tell us about a time they put a song on a mixtape or playlist to woo a crush. ...
New Music Friday: Brittany Howard and a new era of musical masters
09 Feb 2024
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Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce listen to the new albums out on Feb. 9 — including Brittany Howard's...
The greatest Boleros of all-time
08 Feb 2024
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Nothing captures the agony of love, loss, hope and redemption like the song form known across all of...
The Contenders, Vol. 2: Our running list of the year's best songs
06 Feb 2024
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Host Robin Hilton hangs with NPR's Hazel Cills and Sheldon Pearce to geek out about the new Billy Jo...
A recap of the 2024 Grammys
05 Feb 2024
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Our friends at NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour break down the major winners and highlights from the 202...
New Music Friday: What Were The Grammys Made For?
02 Feb 2024
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Ann Powers, Sidney Madden and Stephen Thompson make predictions ahead of Sunday night's 66th annual ...
Why we still love Green Day
30 Jan 2024
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With Green Day's stellar new album, Saviors, the 20th anniversary of American Idiot and 30th anniver...
New Music Friday: The best albums out Jan. 26 (and why they deserve reviews)
26 Jan 2024
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There's plenty about Wall of Eyes, the new album by the British rock trio The Smile, to remind you o...
In Conversation: Ana Tijoux returns after a 10-year break
24 Jan 2024
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In this week's Alt.Latino episode, Chilean rapper and singer Ana Tijoux talks to hosts Felix Contrer...
Why the Oscar-winning score for 'All Quiet On The Western Front' still gives chills
23 Jan 2024
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With the announcement of the 96th annual Oscar nominees, we're revisiting our conversation with Volk...
New Music Friday: 21 Savage's 'American Dream'
19 Jan 2024
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NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce, Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden dig into hip-hop superstar 21 Savage...
The Contenders, Vol. 1: Our running list of the year's best songs
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Host Robin Hilton hangs with NPR Music's Anamaria Sayre and Tom Huizenga to share their current musi...
Setting our sights on the biggest music stories of the 2024
12 Jan 2024
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To ring in the new year, NPR Music's critics take over the latest episode of New Music Friday to off...
New Music From Alt.Latino
10 Jan 2024
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Hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre share the latest new songs that live rent-free in their hea...
2024 Preview: The year's most anticipated albums
09 Jan 2024
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We take a spin through the albums we're most excited about for this year, including Sleater-Kinney, ...
Viking's Choice goes back to the future
02 Jan 2024
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Our resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, connects epic Japanese storytelling, soul-sampling powerviolence,...
Listeners share the songs that moved them the most in 2023
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We asked listeners to tell us about a song they ugly cried to or just couldn't stop playing in 2023....
Alt.Latino's favorite music of 2023
20 Dec 2023
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While 2022 may have been a year completely dominated by a certain sad summer reggaeton album, 2023 d...
The 2023 'All Songs Considered' holiday extravaganza
19 Dec 2023
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Our annual celebration of the season returns with a trip back to the snowy cabin in the woods where ...
Regional Goes Global, Part 3: How a magical Mexican town keeps banda tradition alive
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You know all those tubas and brass instruments you hear behind your favorite regional Mexican hits? ...
The best songs of 2023
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Sheldon Pearce join Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and host Robin Hilton to...
Talking about the best albums of 2023
05 Dec 2023
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It's that time of year again. Over the next few weeks at NPR.org and here on the All Songs Considere...
Regional Goes Global, Part 2: A band finds its voice amid a storm of controversy
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For the second episode of Alt.Latino's regional Mexican music series, hosts Anamaria Sayre and Felix...
Guest DJ: Peter Gabriel
28 Nov 2023
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Peter Gabriel is back with I/O, his first studio album of all-new songs in more than 20 years. To ma...
Thanksgiving edition: Songs about your family
21 Nov 2023
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Sure, there are lots of songs for Christmas and other holidays, but what about Thanksgiving? On this...
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 17
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the pairing of 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne, d...
Regional Goes Global, Part 1: Finding Peso Pluma's music revolution in Nashville
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, Peso Pluma — a 24-year-old who grew up in between Guadalajara, Jalisco and San ...
Exclusive: André 3000 reveals why his new solo album has no bars — and no boundaries
14 Nov 2023
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For the first time in nearly two decades, André 3000 is releasing an album of new music. New Blue S...
What we learned from our parents' record collections
13 Nov 2023
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The holiday season is a time for reflection — so, we're reflecting on music, with stories and memo...
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 10
10 Nov 2023
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The week's best albums include the gothic Heaven Knows from PinkPantheress, a meticulously recreated...
How AI helped The Beatles do the impossible
07 Nov 2023
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Mind-blowing AI tools made it possible for The Beatles to release what they're calling their last s...
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Nov. 3
03 Nov 2023
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The week's best albums include rapper and singer Tkay Maidza's menacing yet beautiful Sweet Justice,...
Tunes that got you through your teens
31 Oct 2023
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We asked listeners to send us stories about a time when music came to the rescue, particularly when ...
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Oct. 27
27 Oct 2023
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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the long-awaited sophomore full-length f...
Tunes that terrify
24 Oct 2023
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With Halloween coming up we thought we'd revisit an episode featuring songs that rattle the nerves, ...
In conversation: Maluma on becoming a dad, hustling across genres and reggaeton's rise
21 Oct 2023
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The Colombian singer Maluma has a lot to be excited about these days — a world tour, a new album a...
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Oct. 20
20 Oct 2023
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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include U.K. singer-songwriter Sampha, a Rolling...
Songs we should retire
17 Oct 2023
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With the retirement of longtime All Songs host Bob Boilen, we're looking back and sharing some of ou...
New Music Friday: The best releases out Oct. 13
13 Oct 2023
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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Australian pop star Troye Sivan, singer-...
Songs that make you cry
10 Oct 2023
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With Bob Boilen retiring, we're taking time to remember some of our favorite episodes from over the ...
New Music Friday: The best releases out Oct. 6
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the rapper Earl Sweatshirt, the return o...
Bob Boilen's farewell show: Songs that say 'goodbye'
02 Oct 2023
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Twenty three years after creating and hosting All Songs Considered, Bob Boilen is retiring. But befo...
New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 29
29 Sep 2023
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The best albums out now include singer Jorja Smith's soaring but solitary full-length Falling or Fly...
Why the Mexican American pop star Becky G always identifies as '200%'
27 Sep 2023
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Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras sit down with Becky G, right after her forthcoming T...
New Mix: Olivia Rodrigo, Sufjan Stevens, Katie Von Schleicher, more
26 Sep 2023
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NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Marissa Lorusso join host Bob Boilen to share their favorite new tracks....
New Music Friday: The best releases out Sept. 22
22 Sep 2023
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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Doja Cat's Scarlet, Kylie Minogue's Tens...
AltLatino dissects the Latin Grammy noms, from snubs to love
20 Sep 2023
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Anamaria Sayre, Felix Contreras and producer Isabella Gomez Sarmiento sit down to talk some real chi...
Viking's Choice: MxPx, Daniel Bachman, Matana Roberts, more
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Boilen will retire from NPR on Oct. 2, and he decided to spend one of his final episodes hosting...
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Sept. 15
15 Sep 2023
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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Corinne Bailey Rae's Black Rainbows, Mit...
A preview of this year's 'El Tiny' lineup
13 Sep 2023
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This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras preview the artists coming to play Tiny Desk performan...
Nirvana's 'In Utero' at 30
12 Sep 2023
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Thirty years ago this month, Nirvana released what would be its third and final album, In Utero. To ...
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Sept. 8
08 Sep 2023
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The best albums out this week include Olivia Rodrigo's GUTS, James Blake's Playing Robots Into Heave...
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Sept. 1
01 Sep 2023
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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the jagged indie-rock of Rabbit Rabbit f...
A lot of songs about ice cream
29 Aug 2023
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As summer break comes to a close for many and students head back to school, we take a moment to cele...
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 25
25 Aug 2023
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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include global sensation Burna Boy, rising R&B s...
The hip-hop verse that changed my life
23 Aug 2023
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From our friends at Pop Culture Happy Hour: What makes for an unshakable rap verse — the kind that...
A conversation with Paul Simon
22 Aug 2023
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Singer Paul Simon surprised fans earlier this year by releasing Seven Psalms, his first album since ...
New Music Friday: The best releases out on Aug. 18
18 Aug 2023
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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include new releases from Jon Batiste, Hozier, R...
Alt.Latino's Best New Music Round-Up: DannyLux, Kali Uchis and Dario Acosta Teich
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite music from the last few months...
A conversation with Robbie Robertson
15 Aug 2023
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Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter for The Band, died Aug. 9 at the age of 80. For this...