10 Years Considered
All Songs Considered looks back at each year in music from the past decade, from the birth of the iPhone and Radiohead's In Rainbows, to Beyoncé's Lemonade and the loss of David Bowie.
Music & Culture
Beloved Singer And Songwriter Mel Tillis Dies At 85
Fans and fellow musicians are mourning the death of entertainer Mel Tillis. Tillis died yesterday after a long illness at the age of 85. He had three dozen Top Ten country hits of his own and wrote dozens more for others, including a monster hit for Kenny Rogers and the First Edition: "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town."
NPR Music 10: 2013
In 2013, we lost George Jones and Lou Reed but witnessed the return of a pair of disco-loving robots and a surprise from Queen Bey herself, just weeks before the year's end.
NPR Music 10: 2015
In 2015, Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly spawned a protest anthem, Hamilton rewrote history and Sufjan Stevens dug into his own past.
NPR Music 10: 2014
2014 began with a Frozen streak, included some stumbles (U2 and Apple, we're looking at you) and closed with an R&B revelation.
NPR Music 10: 2007
Go back to the year 2007, when NPR Music was born, along with classmates like Radiohead's pay-what-you-wish album In Rainbows and the very first iPhone.
Bela Fleck And Abigail Washburn On World Cafe
Two styles of banjo not normally heard together are fused in this live session of songs from their new album, Echo In The Valley.
NPR Music 10
Celebrate NPR Music's 10th anniversary with a highly personal, not-at-all comprehensive list of the songs, albums, trends and moments from the last 10 years that we can't forget.
NPR Music 10: 2008
2008 brought the first Tiny Desk Concert, the arrival (finally) of perhaps the most notoriously delayed album ever and one of the best videos of all time.
NPR Music 10: 2010
In 2010, the emo revival began to crest, Instagram launched, The Beatles released its catalog to iTunes and Kanye West released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.