With the announcement of the 96th annual Oscar nominees, we're revisiting our conversation with Volker Bertelmann, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score last year for All Quiet On The Western Front.

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NPR Music's Sheldon Pearce, Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden dig into hip-hop superstar 21 Savage's new album, his notorious ICE arrest and what it means to capture the American dream.

Noteworthy albums out January 19:
- Sleater-Kinney, Little Rope
- Green Day, Saviors
- Eladio Carrión, Sol María
- Ana Tijoux, Vida
- Brittney Spencer, My Stupid Life
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward
- Ethan Iverson, Technically Acceptable
- glass beach, plastic death
- ericdoa, DOA
- Neck Deep, Neck Deep
- Fredo Bang, Yes, I'm Sad
- Keyon Harrold, Foreverland
- Jozef Van Wissem, The Night Dwells In The Day
- Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino, With pats on the head, just one too few evil one too many is good that's all it is
- Mali Obomsawin and Magdalena Abrego, Greatest Hits


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Host Robin Hilton hangs with NPR Music's Anamaria Sayre and Tom Huizenga to share their current musical obsessions, from the solo piano of Philip Glass to the garage punk of Sprints, Spain's super chill Club del Rio and more.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Lavinia Meijer: "The Departure" from Winter
2. Xavi: "La Diabla (Single)
3. Faye Webster and Lil Yachty: "Lego Ring" from Underdressed at the Symphony
4. Philip Glass: "Opening," from Philip Glass Solo
5. Club del Rio: "Una Vida" (Single)
6. Sprints: "Literary Mind" from Letter to Self

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To ring in the new year, NPR Music's critics take over the latest episode of New Music Friday to offer predictions about the artists, genres and stories that might dominate conversations about music in 2024.

Ann Powers, Rodney Carmichael and Nate Chinen join editor Jacob Ganz to discuss whether Usher's Super Bowl performance or Dua Lipa's new sound could launch these hardworking artists to new levels of ubiquity. Is it possible for either to one steal some of the spotlight that Beyoncé and Taylor Swift dominated last year?

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Hosts Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre share the latest new songs that live rent-free in their heads.

Featured songs:
Candeleros, "Le Quedan Dos"
Cuco, "When The Day Comes To An End (DJ Sliink Remix)"
Gaby Moreno, "Dance the Night Away"
Ed Maverick, "Lagunas"
Helado Negro, "I Just Want To Wake Up With You"
Ana Tijoux, "Tania"

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We take a spin through the albums we're most excited about for this year, including Sleater-Kinney, Brittany Howard, Hurray for the Riff Raff and more, plus a few rumored releases.

Featured Albums:
1. Sleater-Kinney — Little Rope
2. The Smile — Wall of Eyes
3. Brittany Howard — What Now
4. Mary Timony — Untame the Tiger
5. Lee Scratch Perry — King Perry
6. Grandaddy — Blu Wav
7. Hurray for the Riff Raff — The Past Is Still Alive
8. serpentwithfeet — GRIP
9. Chelsea Wolfe — She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
10. Erika de Casier — Still

Other notable releases for 2024:
Jan. 12: Kid Cudi — Insano
Jan. 12: Kali Uchis — Orquideas
Jan. 19: Green Day — Saviors
Jan. 26: Future Islands — People Who Aren't There Anymore
Jan. 26: Torres — What an enormous room
Jan. 26: Ty Segall — Three Bells
Feb. 9: Helado Negro — PHASOR
Feb. 16: Laura Jane Grace — Hole In My Head
Feb. 16: IDLES — TANGK
Feb. 29: Jacob Collier — Djesse Vol. 4
March 1: Sheer Mag — Playing Favorites
March 8: Bleachers — Bleachers
March 29: Chastity Belt — Live Love Laugh

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Our resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, connects epic Japanese storytelling, soul-sampling powerviolence, ambient rap and beautiful noise through thematic webs of history and memory.

Featured Artists and Albums:

• Matmos: "Music or Noise?" from Return to Archive
• PoiL Ueda: "Kokô part 2" from Yoshitsune
• Mayssa Jallad: "Baynana" from Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels
• Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood: "For Ruth" from T​ê​te​-​à​-​t​ê​te
• Zulu: "Lyfe Az a Shorty Shun B So Ruff" from A New Tomorrow
• Yungwebster: "Stay FOCUSSSS [fast+reg]" from Yungwebster
• Liis Ring: "after-image I: nothing stands still" from Homing
• Chuquimamani-Condori: "Breathing" from DJ E
• Sunwatchers: "World People" from Music Is Victory over Time

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We asked listeners to tell us about a song they ugly cried to or just couldn't stop playing in 2023. On this episode, we share some of their picks and the stories behind them.

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While 2022 may have been a year completely dominated by a certain sad summer reggaeton album, 2023 drew its power from a set of familiar sounds that took on new prominence: tubas, accordions and a whole lot of lively, sneakily danceable beats.

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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.

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