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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Doja Cat's Scarlet, Kylie Minogue's Tension, yeule's genre-hopping softscars and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Doja Cat — Scarlet
Featured Songs: "Demons," "97," "Go Off," "Often"
2. Mykki Blanco — Postcards From Italia
Featured Songs: "Tequila Casino Royale," "Holidays In The Sun," "Love Fell Down Around Me," "Magic On My Back"
3. yeule — softscars
Featured Songs: "4ui12," "software update," "x w x," "dazies," "fish in the pool"
4. Kylie Minogue — Tension
Featured Songs: "You Still Get Me High," "Padam Padam," "10 Out Of 10," "Story"
5. Loraine James — Gentle Confrontation
Featured Songs: "Let U Go (ft. keiyaA)," "Gentle Confrontation," "Glitch the System (Glitch Bitch 2)," "I DM U," "One Way Ticket To the Midwest (Emo) [feat. Corey Mastrangelo]"

Lightning Round:
Doechii — "Pacer" (single)
DUFFY x UHLMANN — Doubles
Moemaw Naedon and C. Scott — Yinztroducing...
The National — Laugh Track

Other notable releases for Sept. 22:
Bakar — Halo
Bibio — Sunbursting (EP)
The Breeders — Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition)
Brent Cobb — Southern Star
CHAI — CHAI
Chappell Roan — The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Devendra Banhart — Flying Wig
Grails — Anches En Maat
Grrrl Gang — Spunky!
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids — Afro Futuristic Dreams
KEN mode — VOID
Lydia Loveless — Nothing's Gonna Stand In My Way Again
Pkew Pkew Pkew — Siiick Days
Roosevelt — Embrace
Teenage Fanclub — Nothing Lasts Forever

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Anamaria Sayre, Felix Contreras and producer Isabella Gomez Sarmiento sit down to talk some real chisme this week — a special episode dedicated to the Latin Grammy nominations. Was there really a regional snub and what does it say about the way we choose to elevate our own art?

Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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Bob Boilen will retire from NPR on Oct. 2, and he decided to spend one of his final episodes hosting All Songs Considered with NPR Music's resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, for a mix of pop punk, meticulously cut-up banjo drone, worlds-collapsing free jazz and fingerstyle guitar.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. MxPx: "What I Tell Myself" from Find a Way Home
2. Slant: "Criminal" from Demo 2023
3. Daniel Bachman: "Summer's fingers sweetly linger (Everywhere on every side)" from When the Roses Come Again
4. Matana Roberts: "shake my bones" from Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden...
5. Svitlana Nianio: "Episode III" from Transilvania Smile, 1994
6. Liam Grant: "Androscogging River Ragg" from Amoskeag

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include Corinne Bailey Rae's Black Rainbows, Mitski's The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We, a stunning debut from Ralphie Choo and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Corinne Bailey Rae — Black Rainbows
Featured Songs: "Erasure," "Peach Velvet Sky," "A Spell, A Prayer," "New York Transit Queen"
2. Mitski — The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We
Featured Songs: "I Don't Like My Mind," "When Memories Snow," "The Frost," "The Deal," "I Love Me After You"
3. Ralphie Choo — SUPERNOVA
Featured Songs: "MÁQUINA CULONA (feat Mura Masa)," "BULERÍAS DE UN CABALLO MALO," "WHIPCREAM (feat. Paris Texas)," "TANGOS DE UNA MOTO TRUCADA"
4. Vagabon — Sorry I Haven't Called
Featured Songs: "Lexicon," "Do Your Worst," "Can I Talk My S***?," "Nothing to Lose"

Lightning Round:
The Beaches — Blame My Ex
Jóhann Jóhannsson — A Prayer to the Dynamo
Killer Mike — MICHAEL (Deluxe)
Madison Beer — Silence Between Songs
Pharoah Sanders — Pharoah

Other notable releases for Sept. 15:
Baroness — Stone
Bombino — Sahel
Carlos Niño & Friends — (I'm just) Chillin', on Fire
Cleo Sol — Heaven
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram — Live In London
Demi Lovato — Revamped
Dengue Fever — Ting Mong
Explosions in the Sky — End
K. Flay — MONO
Luluc — DiamondsShakey Graves — Movie of the Week
S. Carey & John Raymond — Shadowlands
Teddy Swims — I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Pt. 1)
Vic Mensa — Victor
Woods — Perennial
Worriers — Trust Your Gut

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This week, Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras preview the artists coming to play Tiny Desk performances for their 'El Tiny' takeover, including indie explosion Kali Uchis returning home to Colombian beats, pop star Becky G debuting some Mexican regional soul and "La Caballota" herself Ivy Queen boasting pure boricua pride.

Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Cher Vincent. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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Thirty years ago this month, Nirvana released what would be its third and final album, In Utero. To mark the milestone, we revisit our 2013 conversation with surviving members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic (for what was then In Utero's 20th anniversary) about how the album came to be.

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The best albums out this week include Olivia Rodrigo's GUTS, James Blake's Playing Robots Into Heaven, Yussef Dayes' Black Classical Music and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Olivia Rodrigo — GUTS
Featured Songs: "get him back!" "all-american bitch," "ballad of a homeschooled girl," "the grudge"
2. Jalen Ngonda — Come Around and Love Me
Featured Songs: "Come Around and Love Me," "It Takes a Fool," "Give Me Another Day"
3. Anjimile — The King
Featured Songs: "Mother," "Genesis," "Black Hole," "The King"
4. James Blake — Playing Robots Into Heaven
Featured Songs: "Big Hammer," "If You Can Hear Me," "Fall Back," "Fire The Editor," "I Want You to Know"
5. Yussef Dayes — Black Classical Music
Featured Songs: "Afro Cubanism," "Marching Band (feat. Masego)," "Birds of Paradise," "Black Classical Music (feat. Venna & Charlie Stacey)," "Early Dayes," "Cowrie Charms (feat. Leon Thomas & Barbara Hicks)"

Lightning Round:
Allison Russell — The Returner
Romy — Mid Air
Sparklehorse — Bird Machine
Sylvester — Private Recordings, August 1970

Other notable releases for Sept. 8:
Apollo Brown & Planet Asia — Sardines
Ashley McBryde — The Devil I Know
Blind Boys of Alabama — Echoes Of The South
The Chemical Brothers — For That Beautiful Feeling
Courtney Barnett — End of the Day
Gaika — Drift
Irreversible Entanglements — Protect Your Light
Laufey — Bewitched
Róisín Murphy — Hit Parade
Teezo Touchdown — How Do You Sleep At Night?
Tinashe — BB/ANG3L
Tyler Childers — Rustin' in the Rain
V — Layover
ZZ Ward — Dirty Shine

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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the jagged indie-rock of Rabbit Rabbit from Speedy Ortiz, hip-hop royalty Illa J's No Traffic and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Speedy Ortiz — Rabbit Rabbit
Featured Songs: "Ghostwriter," "Ballad of Y&S," "Scabs," "Kim Cattrall"
2. Illa J — No Traffic
Featured Songs: "Off the Tap," "Circus," "Get Down (feat. AmpFiddler)," "Snaps," "OG Funk"
3. Puma Blue — Holy Waters
Featured Songs: "Hounds," "O, The Blood!," "Falling Down," "Pretty"
4. Slowdive — everything is alive
Featured Songs: "alife," "prayer remembered," "shanty"

Lightning Round:
L'Rain — "Pet Rock" (Single)
Ama Lou — I Came Home Late
Kendra Morris — I Am What I'm Waiting For
Jeff Rosenstock — HELLMODE

Other notable releases for Sept. 1:
The 1975 — Live From Gorilla
Aesop Rock — Skelethon (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
dadá Joãozinho — tds bem Global
Dream — to whoever wants to hear EP
Field Music — light is gone 2
Ghost of Vroom — Ghost of Vroom 3
Icona Pop — Club Romantech
Larry Fleet — Earned It
Laya — Bet That EP
The Natvral — Summer of No Light
Neil Young — Odeon Budokan
Taake — Et Hav av Avstand


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As summer break comes to a close for many and students head back to school, we take a moment to celebrate one of the season's greatest joys: ice cream. It turns out there are a lot of songs about this delightful treat. So, for this week's episode, we're sharing a show from our archives all about ice cream and the (many) ways it's inspired bands and artists over the years.

Note: This episode originally ran on July 12, 2016


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NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include global sensation Burna Boy, rising R&B star Victoria Monét and more.

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