Robin Hilton

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…

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Watch Liz Phair perform songs from her new album, Soberish, as well as a classic from Exile In Guyville.

This lovely and deeply affecting single from Samia’s upcoming Scout EP so perfectly reflects the loss and loneliness of the past year as she considers small moments.

Rostam and his band perform acoustic-driven versions of two songs from Changephobia, plus “In a River.”

It’s another super-packed release week, with stellar new albums from Pearl Jam, Sufjan Stevens, the producer Knxwledge, Little Dragon and more.Featured Albums:1. Pearl Jam — GigatonFeatured Song: “Quick Escape”2. Clem Snide — Forever Just BeyondFeatured Song: “Roger Ebert”3. Little Dragon — New Me,…

Finally, some good news! J Balvin’s Colores is here, along with The Weeknd’s mysterious After Hours, dance therapy from TOKiMONSTA and more, all on our shortlist of the week’s best new albums.Featured Albums:1. J Balvin — ColoresFeatured Song: “Amarillo”2. The Weeknd — After HoursFeatured Song: “Aft…

All Songs Considered’s Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton count down the top 20 albums of the year as selected by NPR listeners in our annual poll. The clear message in 2019? Love rules.

Our shortlist of the best albums out this week includes Brittany Howard’s masterpiece, Jaime, sad bangers from Tove Lo, a profoundly beautiful, debut solo LP from Mountain Man’s Molly Sarlé and more.

This week’s best new albums includes Lil Peep’s posthumous follow-up to Come Over When You’re Sober, 50th-anniversary editions of Electric Ladyland and The Beatles “White Album,” Hanson and more.

Michael Stipe and Mike Mills share some of the stories behind the band’s landmark album and how it became an unlikely hit.

A bonkers new song from Shugo Tokumaru helps wash away an unwelcome earworm, Lana Del Rey lauds (her?) youth, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy weirds out over love and Bob revisits an old favorite.

Aliens are bent on abducting a drunk man in the middle of the night. But, with a six-pack of beer tucked under his arm, he doesn’t go quietly.