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We asked 10 members of our Tiny Desk team to pick a favorite concert of the year.

The Canadian journalist peels back the curtain on his high-energy, yet deeply researched, interview style.

NPR Music's pop critic says her favorite albums of this tumultuous year demonstrated the value of embracing fragility and vulnerability.

When it comes to music, December is overflowing with gifts, but we aren't quite done with the presents. This time, the NPR Music team is giving ... to each other! On this episode of All Songs Considered, our hosts, writers and editors get into a sort ...

2024's breakout star reimagines her biggest hits from her Grammy-nominated album Short n' Sweet, while sharing stories of how the tracks came to life.

The singer/songwriter is one of the 2024 Kennedy Center honorees. In 1996, Raitt spoke to Fresh Air about about the musicians that inspired her, including Mississippi Fred McDowell.Interview ...

For NPR Music's hip-hop and R&B editor, no list could capture an accurate picture of the year, yet there's still value in calling out the albums that felt unignorable.

Saint Levant has been selling out U.S. and European venues with his album "Deira," an ode to his heritage and the Gaza hotel his father built, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in the war.

For their latest album, the Australian rock band took a looser and more collaborative approach to songwriting.

The Philadelphia bandleader didn't always connect with traditional jazz audiences, but he found a second home doing so in Baltimore. A new double album revisit a show he and his "Arkestra" gave there.