NPR’s latest on the music scene
This was destined to be a Christmas-y week on the Billboard Hot 100.
Posted: January 2, 2026, 5:25 pm
NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ana Gonzalez and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their new podcast Our Common Nature from WNYC, which connects music with nature and place.
Posted: January 1, 2026, 9:40 pm
Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and whose lifetime of creative work helped shape our world.
Posted: December 31, 2025, 10:00 am
From Sly Stone of the Family Stone to Ozzy Osbourne, we remember some of the musicians lost in 2025.
Posted: December 31, 2025, 9:47 am
Ring in the new year with celebratory sounds from around the world.
Posted: December 29, 2025, 12:00 pm
Which Tiny Desk made an audio engineer question everything? Which one made a producer want to cry? Touch grass? Look back on the year in Tiny Desk, with the people who make them.
Posted: December 29, 2025, 10:00 am
NPR Music critics reflect on the lyrics that captured the year's mood, sparked emotions and stayed with them long after the music stopped.
Posted: December 29, 2025, 9:43 am
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
Posted: December 27, 2025, 7:24 pm
Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died. He was 65. The band announced his death on their official website on Friday.
Posted: December 27, 2025, 9:26 am
Biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the making of Born to Run as an "existential moment" for Springsteen. Carlin's book is Tonight in Jungleland. Originally broadcast Aug. 7, 2025.
Posted: December 25, 2025, 10:00 am
