NPR's Daniel Estrin asks Nora Felder, the music supervisor for the series "Stranger Things," how she went about scoring the series over its decade-long run which ended this week.

Producer Mark Ronson and singer Bruno Mars started their careers on opposite sides of the country and took different paths to ...

Welcome to the sound of public radio in 2025. Our list of the best 125 songs of the year was curated by more than 60 writers and DJs across the NPR Music Network, and runs the gamut of sounds, scenes ...

Bon Iver returns. Valerie June branches out. Gerald Clayton channels The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomes Erin Wolf of Radio Milwaukee's 88Nine to the show for a quick run ...

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...

Kesha. Kae Tempest. Nilüfer Yanya. It's an abbreviated Independence Day edition of New Music Friday. Stephen Thompson gives you a quick rundown of the new albums that caught his ear. If you enjoyed ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

March 31st, 2025 – Washington, D.C. – NPR Music and New York's globalFEST are excited to announce the return of the fifth edition of NPR Music's Tiny Desk x globalFEST, taking place Monday, March 31st ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ana Gonzalez and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their new podcast Our Common Nature from WNYC, which connects music with nature and place.

Which song lyrics from 2025 most moved our NPR Music critics?

As we look back at our international reporters' most memorable stories of the last year we revisit a story about a Ukrainian ...

September 16, 2025 Washington, D.C. — NPR announced today that Sonali Mehta has been named Executive Director of NPR Music. She will start September 22, and will be based in New York. Mehta is a music ...