Music & Culture
NPR Music's Best Live Sessions of 2021
The best Live Sessions of 2021 feature performances from Japanese Breakfast, Samm Henshaw, Yola and many more.
Issa Rae's favorite Tiny Desk concerts
Insecure creator and actor Issa Rae picks her favorite Tiny Desks by artists whose music has been featured on the hit TV show.
'Throughline': 2 decades later have we caught up to Radiohead's prophetic vision?
The team of the NPR history podcast Throughline talks to singer Thom Yorke and art designer Stanley Donwood about two Radiohead albums that captured the anxieties and dread of the early 2000s.
Mitra I. Arthur
The Jazz Night In America producer shares her favorite albums and songs of 2021.
Nikki Birch
The Jazz Night In America producer shares her favorite albums and songs of 2021.
Rodney Carmichael
The co-host of Louder Than a Riot shares his favorite hip-hop albums and podcasts of 2021.
Lars Gotrich
NPR Music's resident viking shares his favorite albums and songs of 2021.