Music

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with NPR music critic Ann Powers and music scholar Shana Redmond about how old and new protest music reflects political moments, following the Supreme Court overturning Roe.

Ayupuka's turnt-up praise music feels equally at home in church aisles and on dance floors.

Composer Deborah Wicks La Puma has written music for Mo Willems' famous Pigeon, Elephant and Piggie - and now for Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed on HBO Max.

Jazz Night hangs with trumpeter Theo Croker in Jacksonville, Fla., where he spent his teenage years, to revisit old mentors and hear a set by his band from the Jacksonville Jazz Festival.

Among piano chords, murmurs and a single wail, Alex G gives us an unlikely summer anthem that reveals the seedy underbelly of the idyllic season.

Here at World Cafe, we're celebrating music that's been around for a quarter-century, including a landmark release from Radiohead, a seminal song from The Verve and a comeback from Bob Dylan.

The R&B goliath caps off our Black Music Month celebration, highlighting a catalog chock-full of hits spanning 25 years.

Beach House and Mitski and Spoon, oh my! Here are the tracks public radio is spinning over and over this year.

The R&B star was convicted in New York last year of sexual exploitation of a child, bribery, sex trafficking and racketeering.

There is a passionate defiance to "What I Want," the sound of a young, queer woman seizing and holding fast to her desires.

It's hard not to get caught up in the energy on either side of this song, which ultimately ends up reminding us: we're not alone.

On this week's episode of The Thistle & Shamrock, Host Fiona Ritchie features some unique music set to William Butler Yeats' poetry.