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All Songs Considered NPR
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Hosts/nerds Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are your friendly music buddies with the week's best new music discoveries, including conversations with emerging artists, icons and more. Hear songs that can completely change your day, with humor, heart and (sometimes) a whole lot of noise. Directions for use: Morning commute, the gym, or alone time. (If rash persists, discontinue use.)
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New Music Friday: Run The Jewels
We break format on this week's show for a deeper discussion of RTJ4, an album that speaks directly to both current and historic racism in America, police violence and systemic oppression.
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NPR Music's No. 1 Albums And Songs Of May
From the Atlanta rapper Deante' Hitchcock to the Australian ambient artist Madeleine Cocolas, hear the music closest to our staff right now.
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New Music Friday: May 29
If there's a common theme to the best new albums out this week, it's joy, from the relentlessly jubilant rock of the band Vistas, to singer Nicole Atkins' love letter to the Jersey Shore.
Featured Albums:
1. Vistas — Everything Changes in the End
Featured Song: "Sucker"
2. Nicole Atkins — Italian Ice
Featured Song: "Captain"
3. Ondara — Folk N Roll Vol. 1 - Tales of Isolation
Featured Song: "Mr. Landlord"
4. Jaime Wyatt — Neon Cross
Featured Song: "Neon Cross"
5. 2nd Grade — Hit to Hit
Featured Songs: "Baby's First Words" and "Something I'll Have To Remember"
6. Christian Lee Hutson — Beginners
Featured Song: "Atheist"
7. Teddy Thompson — Heartbreaker Please
Featured Song: "Why Wait"
8. Jake Blount — Spider Tales
Featured Song: "Move, Daniel"
Other notable releases for May 29: David Grubbs & Taku Unami — Comet Meta; Deerhoof — Future Teenage Cave Artists; Diana Ross — Supertonic; Diplo — Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Chapter 1: Snake Oil; Flying Lotus — Flamagra Instrumentals; Hania Rani — Home; Inventions — Continuous Portrait; Kip Moore — Wild World; Lady Gaga — Chromatica; Prince — Up All Nite With Prince. -
Artists We Love Cover Songs They Love
This week's new mix from All Songs Considered is all cover tunes, featuring musicians we love paying tribute to artists they love.
1. Jay Som "Lucy" from Soccer Mommy & Friends Singles Series
2. Soccer Mommy "I Think You're Alright" from Soccer Mommy & Friends Singles Series
3. Margaret Glaspy "Mythological Beauty"
4. Lucy Dacus "Tom Courtenay"
5. Sharon Van Etten "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? [feat. Josh Homme]"
6 Caroline Spence "The Middle"
7. Palehound "Something On Your Mind"
8. Joseph Shabason "Gymnopedia No. 1"
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New Music Friday: May 22
The best albums out this week include The 1975's sprawling masterpiece, Notes On A Conditional Form, the return of Indigo Girls, The Airborne Toxic Event, the rapper Gunna and more.
Featured Albums:
1. The 1975 — Notes On A Conditional Form
Featured Songs: "Me & You Together Song," "The 1975," "People," "The End (Music For Cars)" and "Frail State of Mind"
2. Indigo Girls — Look Long
Featured Song: "Country Radio"
3. Owen Pallett — Island
Featured Song: "A Bloody Morning"
4. The Airborne Toxic Event — Hollywood Park
Featured Song: "Hollywood Park"
5. Gunna — Wunna
Featured Song: "Dollaz On My Head"
6. Katie Von Schleicher — Consummation
Featured Song: "Nowhere"
Other notable releases for May 22: Badly Drawn Boy — Banana Skin Shoes; Kota the Friend — Everything; Neil Innes — How Sweet to Be An Idiot; The Philip Glass Ensemble — Music In 8 Parts; Steve Earle and the Dukes — Ghosts of West Virginia; Various — I Still Play; Woods — Strange to Explain. -
New Mix: Memorable Musical Discoveries, From Muzz To Lou Canon
At a time when every day can feel the same, on this week's All Songs Considered you can meet someone new, with a mix of memorable music discoveries.
1. Muzz: "Red Western Sky" from Muzz
2. Liza Anne: "Bad Vacation" from Bad Vacation
3. Katie Von Schleicher "Brutality" from Consummation
4. Lou Canon "M.O.T.R." from Audomatic Body
5. Trespassers William "Winterstorms"
6. Asher Gamedze "Siyabulela" from Dialectic Soul
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Customer Reviews
New discoveries, not all for me
I appreciate the variety of new music I’ve discovered listening to this show. Tends to skew calm and atmospheric which is not my jam, but also mixing in some metal and pop that gets me moving, stuff I might not have learned about otherwise. I especially love Ann Power’s unique takes and suggestions for new rock and Americana.
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What happened‽
This used to be such a great show now it's just Bob and a bunch of mopey music for the most part. In these trying times is it not possible to listen to happy music to tune out the despair of the world. I know it's still being made because I'm finding it. Change the show description ffs or bring back Robin! It's kind of sad like when someone has a break up but they leave their profile picture with the ex up for way too long.
