AILSA CHANG, HOST: Close the work week on a good note. Our colleagues at NPR Music brought us a roundup of their favorite music out today. Here are NPR's Stephen Thompson and Sheldon Pearce.

NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers take you on a tour of the most exciting albums out Friday, Sept. 6, including a album-length collaboration (don't call it a comeback) between rapper LL ...

Our friends at NPR Music bring us their weekly roundup of new music from this week, including a song from Khalid’s new album, Sincere.

SUMMERS: All right, Ann, so NPR music has published its list of the best songs of 2023. And right away, there is something that stands out here.

Tyler Childers bares his fangs. Patty Griffin honors her mother. Indigo De Souza reaches the precipice. Read our list of the ...

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson welcomed Ayana Contreras of Denver public radio stations KUVO Jazz and The Drop to our New Music Friday podcast to discuss the latest from rising R&B star Coco Jones, ...

Here are their own 2023 playlist Have you ever listened to NPR and wondered who chooses those songs you hear between ... It's just that a lot of the music I listened to was in the realm of ...

The NPR Music team listened to almost 80 albums to prepare for this week's New Music Friday episode, and the two records that stood out the most both came from Nashville, so we had to have Celia ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with NPR music critic Ann Powers on the rise of interpolation in the increasingly litigious music industry and the line between nostalgia and theft.

NPR Music's amateur songwriter competition, Tiny Desk Contest, reveals another winner. Nearly 7,000 artists entered the contest for the 10th anniversary title.

Then came the second number — Carole King's "Music," accompanied by Laine's saxophonist husband John Dankworth and his band, ...

SHAPIRO: The staff of NPR Music talking about songs that didn't make it onto their end-of-year lists. You can hear more of their personal favorites on the All Songs Considered podcast.