Robin Hilton

In another unpredictable year of ups and downs, music once again came to the rescue. As we near the end of 2021, we want to know what albums (or EPs) resonated the most with you.

For Glass Onion, composer Nathan Johnson had to navigate and illuminate the film’s conflicting range of emotions. He found endless possibilities within an orchestra.

The English singer-songwriter and her band give a cathartic, playful performance at the Tiny Desk.

Composer Nathan Johnson speaks with NPR’s All Songs Considered podcast about his score for the film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

Tell us about a song that hit you particularly hard in 2023 — maybe one you listened to on repeat, ugly cried to, or one that just made you connected with you more than any other song this year.

It’s time once again to look back at all the incredible new music we got in 2023. So, we want to know: What were <em>your</em> favorite albums (or EPs) released this past year?

There was one overwhelming favorite album that topped this year’s <em>All Songs Considered </em>listener poll, and it wasn’t even close.

Our annual celebration of the season returns with a trip back to the snowy cabin in the woods where it all began, as we attempt once again to throw a holiday party for the ages.

The <em>Pop Culture Happy Hour</em> team is off today. So we’re bringing you a very special holiday extravaganza from NPR Music’s <a href=“https://www.npr.org/2023/12/19/1197956749/all-songs-considered-holiday-extravaganza-2023”><em>All Songs Considered</em> podcast</a>. In this festive episode, <em>All Songs</em>′ annual celebration of the season returns with a trip to a snowy cabin in the woods – as they attempt to throw a party for the ages. Eggnog will be had, plenty of delightful holiday mu…

Have you ever used a mixtape or playlist to let someone know you’ve got a crush on them? Tell us about it. We may use your song and story in an upcoming episode of <em>All Songs Considered.</em>

“Weird Al” Yankovic helps curate a mix of some of the funniest songs of all time, from classics like Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements,” to more fringe discoveries from The Hazzards, Tonio K. and more.<br><br><strong>Featured artists and songs</strong>:<br>1. Tonio K: “H-A-T-R-E-D”<br>2. Robbie Fulks: “Fountains of Wayne Hotline”<br>3. Tenacious D: “Tribute”<br>4. Spike Jones: “Der Fuehrer’s Face”<br>5. Bill Oddie: “BLIMPHT”<br>6. The Hazzards: “Just A Temp”<br>7. Garfunkel and Oates: “Google”<br>8. To…

It’s hard to spot everything Hauschka deployed for this mostly improvised set, from pink putty to strings stuffed with tin foil.

Record and email us a voice memo telling us about a song that reminds you of Mom. We’ll share select stories and songs on an upcoming episode of <em>All Songs Considered.</em>

With graduation season here, we’re wondering what song takes you back to the time you left school, said goodbye to old friends and headed out on your own. Send us a voice memo or email about it.

With the Fourth of July week here, we look at an album all about the messy, complicated and wonderful culture of America: Bruce Springsteen’s <em>Born in the U.S.A.</em>, which recently turned 40 years old.

The latest update to our running list of the year’s best songs includes new ones from Wilco and Omar Apollo, an ode to friendship from Charli XCX and Lorde and more.<br><br><strong>Featured songs and artists:</strong><br><br>1. Wilco: “Hot Sun,” from ‘Hot Sun Cool Shroud’<br>2. Charli XCX and Lorde: “The girl, so confusing version with lorde” (single)<br>3. Sondre Lerche: “You Are Impossible,” from ‘Two Way Monologue (20th Anniversary Edition)’<br>4. Omar Apollo: “Plane Trees” (feat. Mustafa), f…

Springsteen showed up ready to make it count, with a carefully arranged setlist and an incredible band.

The group brings its playfully subversive style to the Tiny Desk.

Wolfe strips down her colossal sound to its barest, most intimate elements, revealing the profound beauty within.

In our second installment of blood-slowing songs we take a deep breath and let it out with the music of Max Richter, Hania Rani, Fleet Foxes, Yasmin Williams and more.Featured artists and songs:1. Joan Shelley: "Easy Now," from Over and Even2. Fleet Foxes: "Helplessness Blues," from Helplessness Blues3. Theo Alexander: "re; Waiting," from Animadversions4. Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher: "There Will Be Hope," from Inner Symphonies5. Nicholas Britell: "Eden (Harlem)," from If Beale Street Could Talk6. Max Richter: "Dream 3 (in the midst of my life)," from From Sleep7. Stars of the Lid: "Even If You're Never Awake," from And Their Refinement of the Decline8. Iron & Wine: "Passing Afternoon," from Our Endless Numbered Days9. Yasmin Williams: "Juvenescence," from Urban Driftwood10. Gidon Kremer & Keith Jarrett: "Fratres (for violin and piano)," from Arvo Párt: Tabula Rasa Enjoy the show? Tell a friend and leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Question, comments, suggestions and feedback of any kind alw