All Songs Considered

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Hosts/nerds Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are your friendly music buddies with the week's best new music discoveries, including conversations with emerging artists, icons and more. Hear songs that can completely change your day, with humor, heart and (sometimes) a whole lot of noise. Directions for use: Morning commute, the gym, or alone time. (If rash persists, discontinue use.)

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01.24.2020

Our sprint through the best new albums out this week includes a debut from the rapper Hook, the sinister storytelling of Andy Shauf, a solo release from Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker and more. Featured Albums: 1. Black Lips — Sing ...

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01.24.2020 New Music Friday: Our Top 8 Albums Out On Jan. 24 Our sprint through the best new albums out this week includes a debut from the rapper Hook, the sinister storytelling of Andy Shauf, a solo release from Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker and more. Featured Albums: 1. Black Lips — Sing ...
01.23.2020 Pinegrove, Pinenuts And Pinetabs: A Conversation with Evan Stephens Hall The Pinegrove singer talks about the band's latest album and how fans have interpreted the new songs, using chord tablature the band provided for fans online.
01.22.2020 New Mix: Dan Deacon, Soccer Mommy, M. Ward, Khruangbin And Leon Bridges, More This week's mix of essential new songs includes a surprising collaboration between Khruangbin and Leon Bridges, Dan Deacon without the vocal effects, M. Ward and more.
01.17.2020 New Music Friday: Jan. 17 A posthumous release from Mac Miller, Halsey's Manic and Little Big Town's Nightfall top our shortlist for the best new albums out this week. Featured Releases: 1. Bombay Bicycle Club — Everything Else Has Gone Wrong Featured Song: "Is It ...
01.14.2020 Our Top Discoveries From globalFEST 2020 The annual festival in New York gathers a dozen bands from around the world to shake up your listening habits. On this edition of All Songs Considered you'll hear extraordinary music from South Korea's Ak Dan Gwang Chil, the sweet ...
01.10.2020 New Music Friday: Jan. 10 Our sprint through the week's best new albums returns with music from the genre-bending artist known as Poppy, Irish singer-songwriter David Keenan, Echosmith, Field Music and more. Featured Albums: 1. Poppy - I Disagree Featured Song: "Fill the Crown" 2. ...
01.07.2020 What 'All Songs Considered' Sounded Like 20 Years Ago Hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton look back at the first year of the program, which turns 20 years old this month. On January 3, 2000, All Songs Considered became National Public Radio's first online-only program. The show's origins came ...
12.31.2019 Viking's Choice: The Year In The Loud And The Weird NPR Music's Lars Gotrich recounts 2019 with psychedelic noise-rock from Brazil, icy minimalism from Sweden, bonkers punk from Boston and anthemic heavy metal from Fresno.
12.23.2019 The All Songs Considered Holiday Extravaganza, 2019 Taylor Swift, Jenny Lewis, Tarriona "Tank" Ball, Lucy Dacus and more special guests join hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton for their annual holiday party. What could possibly go wrong?
12.17.2019 Poll Results: NPR Listeners Pick The Top Albums Of 2019 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.
12.09.2019 All Songs Considered: The Year In Music 2019 Lizzo, Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X dominated the headlines this year, but 2019 was much more than that. We look back at the music we'll remember most and the marks it left on our cultural landscape. As we listened ...
12.05.2019 Interview: Raphael Saadiq The soul musician behind one of the year's best albums, the heartwrenching Jimmy Lee, spoke with NPR music critic Rodney Carmichael as part of NPR's Tiny Desk Fest, a special four-night series of Tiny Desk concerts at NPR's headquarters in ...
12.04.2019 Interview: Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow had a lot to say in this Tiny Desk Fest interview with NPR pop critic Ann Powers. Every day, Sheryl Crow said at NPR's Tiny Desk Fest, she thinks about compassion. "In 2005, I got to hear the ...
12.03.2019 A Conversation With Jeff Lynne Of ELO The longtime leader of ELO talks with All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen about his creative process, working with his heroes, like Roy Orbison, and his latest album, From Out of Nowhere. Jeff Lynne has been crafting classic rock songs ...
11.27.2019 The 2010s: NPR Listeners Pick Their Top Songs Of The Decade All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton countdown NPR listeners' favorite songs of the 2010s. The Top 25 Listener Picks: 1. Bon Iver: "Holocene" from Bon Iver 2. Robyn: "Dancing On My Own" from Body Talk Pt. 1 ...
11.25.2019 The 2010s: A Music-Making Evolution And Revolution Our review of the past decade in music continues with a look at the ways music production has changed and how technology has revolutionized sound both onstage and in the studio. We begin with the role of computers in live ...
11.22.2019 New Music Friday: Nov. 22 Our final New Music Friday of 2019 ends with some heavy hitters, from Beck's moody-groovy Hyperspace and Coldplay's most ambitious album yet, to a batch of all-new songs from the late Leonard Cohen. Featured Albums And Songs: 1. Beck — ...
11.19.2019 New Mix: Jesca Hoop, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Esmé Patterson, More This week's essential mix of new songs includes a Brian Eno remix of a Lee "Scratch" Perry tune, Red Baraat percussionist Sunny Jain, singer Jesca Hoop and more. Featured Artists And Songs: 1. Lee "Scratch" Perry: "Here Come the Warm ...
11.15.2019 New Music Friday: Nov. 15 Our sprint through the best new albums out this week includes a posthumous release from rapper Lil Peep, gorgeous reflections from Bonnie "Prince" Billy, singer Mary Lambert and more. Featured Albums And Songs: 1. Milky Chance - Mind the Moon ...
11.14.2019 The 2010s: Latinx Music Before And After 'Despacito' "Despacito" was more than a popular song. It was the culmination of a decade-long rise of sociological and musical forces that eventually birthed and cemented a style now called "Latin Urban." The song went on to practically break the Internet, ...
11.12.2019 Serenity Now: Music And A Conversation With Joan Shelley In this All Songs Considered guest DJ session, Joan Shelley talks about her latest album, Like the River Loves the Sea and shares songs by some of the other artists who've inspired her over the years.
11.08.2019 New Music Friday: Nov. 8 This week's best new albums include a solo release from Leslie Odom Jr., aka Aaron Burr from Hamilton, the woozy world of FKA Twigs, country singer Luke Combs and more. Featured Albums: 1. Leslie Odom Jr. — Mr. 2. Bishop ...
11.06.2019 Interview: Angel Olsen And John Congleton On How They Made 'All Mirrors' Angel Olsen has reimagined her sound. On this edition of All Songs Considered, she and her co-producer, John Congleton reveal how they did it, with the help of a 14-piece string section. "What making this record was about," says Angel ...
11.04.2019 The 2010s: A Jazz Revival In Black Music Pianist and producer Robert Glasper is on a mission to reconnect jazz with black music. In the past decade he's helped transform the work of artists like Kendrick Lamar, Brittany Howard and more. Glasper ended the the 2000s with an ...
11.01.2019 New Music Friday: Nov. 1 Our picks for the best albums out this week include Gang Starr's first new release in 16 years, humor and heart from country singer Miranda Lambert, the latest in Bob Dylan's Bootleg series and more. 1. Jeff Lynne's ELO — ...
10.31.2019 The 2010s: The Globalization Of Music Our look back at the past decade in music continues as we examine the ways musical borders have fallen and why global sounds are more prevalent and popular than ever. Over the past decade, the borders between different musical worlds ...
10.30.2019 Interview: Megan Thee Stallion After her Tiny Desk performance, the rapper joined NPR's Sidney Madden for a live conversation on playing with a band for the first time, hanging onto her Texas roots and plans for her debut album.
10.29.2019 New Mix: Torres, Julien Baker, Illuminati Hotties, More This week's mix from All Songs Considered somehow took on a dog theme, beginning with a board game from the band PUP, where every move leads to failure and disappointment. But the music's still good! Artists and Songs on This ...
10.28.2019 The 2010s: Queer Goes Mainstream In the past decade, LGBTQ issues hit the mainstream in unprecedented ways, and music played a big part, with songs about queer love on the radio and anthems of allyship coming from all major genres. On this episode of All ...
10.25.2019 New Music Friday: Oct. 25 The fourth-quarter deluge continues this week with new releases from Rex Orange County, King Princess, Gallant and more, including the first new album in seven years from Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Featured Albums: 1. Mikal Cronin — Seeker 2. ...
10.24.2019 The 2010s: The Rise Of Bandcamp Since its founding in 2008, Bandcamp has become a buzzing, artist-friendly hub for music lovers, with pay-what-you-want pricing and lots of rabbit holes leading to music you won't find anywhere else. In this episode of All Songs Considered, CEO and ...
10.22.2019 Lankum And The Strange New Sounds Of Ireland In this Guest DJ session with All Songs Considered, Radie Peat and Ian Lynch of the band Lankum talk about their new album, The Livelong Day, the evolving sounds of their native Ireland, and share their favorite Irish, off-the-radar artists. ...
10.21.2019 The 2010s: Classical Music's Decade Of Reckoning Is classical music dying? No. But its institutions, artists and promoters took some hits in the past decade, from bankruptcies to sexual harassment. Still, along the way, we heard a lot of terrific music. On this episode of All Songs ...
10.18.2019 New Music Friday: Oct. 18 It's a packed release week, with new albums from Chairlift's Caroline Polachek, the rapper Gucci Mane, warped hip-hop from clipping., the electronic artist Floating Points and more. 1. Foals - 'Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2' 2. Patrick ...
10.17.2019 The 2010s: Social Media And The Birth Of Stan Culture Our series looking back at the past decade in music continues with a conversation about social media and how it's allowed (for better or worse) the rise of super fans, otherwise known as stans. NPR Music's Sidney Madden talks with ...
10.15.2019 The 2010s: 5 Ways Beyoncé Defined The Decade In Music In the first of a series of conversations about the past decade in music, we examine some of the ways the singer, songwriter, producer and businesswoman helped steer the 2010s in new directions.
10.14.2019 Billie Eilish: 'All I Can Say Is, Be Patient' The 17-year-old pop star talks NPR Music's Stephen Thompson about getting through her teenaged years, directing her own videos, experiencing art with synesthesia and more in this interview, recorded live on stage at Austin's ACL Music Festival.
10.11.2019 New Music Friday: Our Top 6 Albums Out Oct. 11 Our shortlist of the best new albums out this week incudes Big Thief's Two Hands, rapper Lil' Kim's first new studio project in 14 years, a solo album from Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and more. FEATURED ALBUMS: 1. Elbow - ...
10.08.2019 Wilco's Jeff Tweedy On Finding Joy In A Complicated World In this guest DJ session from All Songs Considered, Tweedy talks about Wilco's new album, Ode to Joy, and the importance of appreciating life's smallest moments.
10.04.2019 New Music Friday: Our Top 7 Albums Out On Oct. 4 It's a packed release week, with new albums from R&B; singer Summer Walker, The Avett Brothers, Angel Olsen, Wilco, Danny Brown and more. Host Robin Hilton is joined by NPR Music's Lyndsey McKenna, Rodney Carmichael, Sidney Madden and Stephen Thompson ...
10.03.2019 Reasons To Be Cheerful: A Conversation With David Byrne The Talking Head, author, cyclist and creative soul talks about "Reasons to be Cheerful," a story-based project to lift your spirits. He also talks about his "American Utopia" tour, now on Broadway.
10.01.2019 'Abbey Road' Remixed: A Conversation With Giles Martin The son of the late Beatles producer George Martin reveals how he remixed the final album all four members of the band made together.
09.27.2019 New Music Friday: Sept. 27 The best new albums out this week include Sturgill Simpson's scuzzy rock record Sound & Fury, reliably infectious pop from The New Pornographers, new Tegan & Sara, a lost John Coltrane album and more. 1. The New Pornographers — In ...
09.24.2019 New Mix: Soccer Mommy, Chastity Belt, Leonard Cohen, (Sandy) Alex G, More Warning: The opening cut on this week's show, by Fran got stuck in my head and kept me wide awake at four in the morning. But a song from Soccer Mommy about dealing with temptation and the devil, Chastity Belt's ...
09.20.2019 New Music Friday: Sep. 20 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.
09.17.2019 Hobo Johnson's Journey From Homelessness To A Major Label Contract On the day before his album came out, Hobo Johnson joined me to play DJ. We discussed the making of his album and played some of the music that has inspired him over the years. I think you'll be surprised ...
09.13.2019 New Music Friday: Sep. 13 The week's best new album drops includes the genre-bending pop of Charli XCX, an ambitious concept record by The Lumineers, the euphoric songs of Emeli Sandé, new Chelsea Wolfe, Sampa The Great, more. FEATURED ALBUMS: 1. The Lumineers - 'III,' ...
09.10.2019 New Mix: Thom Yorke, Wynton Marsalis, Ride, Overcoats, More There's a cinematic theme in the songs on this edition of All Songs Considered, including a new track from Thom Yorke called "Daily Battles" and an instrumental version of it from trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. These two songs were created for ...
09.06.2019 New Music Friday: Sep. 6 Our list of the best albums out this week includes The Highwomen's self-titled release, R&B; singer Mahalia's remarkable Love and Compromise, new Frankie Cosmos, MUNA, Lower Dens and more. FEATURED ALBUMS: 1. Muna – 'Saves the World,' 2. Tinariwen – ...
09.03.2019 New Mix: Pinegrove, Anna Meredith, Sudan Archives, 4 Mellotrons This edition of All Songs Considered has songs of gratitude from Pinegrove, a take on intimacy from Norway's Jenny Hval, a song of quietude from Anna Meredith and the magic of the Mellotron. 1. Sudan Archives: "Confessions," 2. Jenny Hval: ...

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