Music

Suitably recorded in the kitchen, this Tiny Desk Contest entry celebrates the romantic intimacy of sharing meals and underlies the mortifying vulnerability of courtship.

This Tiny Desk Contest entry is an intriguing meditation on betrayal.

Musically, 2015 was a heavyweight champion year: Tame Impala, Father John Misty, Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, Sufjan Stevens, Adele, Drake and Chris Stapleton all released exceptional new albums.

If this is any indication of what Old Crow Medicine Show still has in store so many recordings in its career, we should count ourselves lucky.

Artists who entered this year's Tiny Desk Contest impressed us with their outstanding performances — and their creative desks. Check out some of our favorites desks of the 2022 Tiny Desk Contest.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Orville Peck, the country musician whose identity is kept secret behind a fringed mask, about his second full-length album Bronco.

The 40-year-old pop star had her 13-year conservatorship terminated late last year. Spears is a mother to two teen boys from an earlier marriage.

Sylo's soft vibrato offers summery comfort on a cold spring day.

The Austin punk band's instantly replayable "Black Clouds" bounces with a coiffured (but no less reckless) joie de vivre.

Thomas Mayfield helped raise test scores and engagement in the classroom, and now he's helping teachers in Fort Worth learn what he did.

Throughout Warm Chris, New Zealand songwriter Aldous Harding is a chameleonic presence, pulling off one mask only to reveal another underneath.

This Tiny Desk Contest entry is filled with dark observations about navigating survival within various societal structures that seem to go against that very thing.