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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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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.)

    In conversation: How Camilo Lara is Mexico's musical 'double agent'

    In conversation: How Camilo Lara is Mexico's musical 'double agent'

    Anamaria Sayre, host of NPR's Alt.Latino, sits down with world-building producer and Mexican Institute of Sound frontman Camilo Lara to talk about using his fearless intuition to help artists find their voice in the burgeoning hub of Latin music.

    • 29 min
    New Mix: Ólafur Arnalds and Ella McRobb, Protomartyr, The Antlers, more

    New Mix: Ólafur Arnalds and Ella McRobb, Protomartyr, The Antlers, more

    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including two surprising and wonderful collaborations.

    Featured Songs And Artists:
    1. Ólafur Arnalds (feat. Ella McRobb): "and we'll leave it there..." (Single)
    2. The Antlers: "I Was Not There" (Single)
    3. Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani: "Ta Nyé," from Les Égar​é​s
    4. Lauren Early: "Good Girl Bad Boy," from Don't Take My Dream Away
    5. Protomartyr: "Make Way," from Formal Growth In The Desert
    6. Faten Kanaan: "Ebla," from Afterpoem

    • 44 min
    How Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily conjured Love In Exile

    How Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily conjured Love In Exile

    Contributor Nate Chinen interviews the three musicians behind the new improvisational supergroup Love In Exile about their new album, the mysteries of how songs emerge from improvisation and most crucially, how the music they create is an expression of how they listen to each other.

    • 39 min
    New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 24

    New Music Friday: The best releases out on March 24

    The Atlanta rapper and singer 6LACK, Lana Del Rey, R&B singer Yaya Bey, the veteran rock group Depeche Mode and more are among the artists dropping our picks for the best new albums out this week.

    Featured Albums:
    1. 6LACK — Since I Have A Lover
    Featured Songs: "Inwood Hill Park," "Cold Feet," "Talkback," "Chasing Feeling"
    2. Lana Del Rey — Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
    Featured Songs: "Peppers (feat. Tommy Genesis)," "Jon Batiste Interlude," "Margaret (feat. Bleachers)," "Judah Smith Interlude," "A&W"
    3. Yaya Bey — Exodus the North Star
    Featured Songs: "when saturn returns," "exodus the north star"
    4. Lankum — False Lankum
    Featured Songs: "Clear Away in the Morning," "Fugue III," "Lord Abore and Mary Flynn"
    5. Depeche Mode — Memento Mori
    Featured Songs: "My Cosmos Is Mine," "Always You," "People Are Good," "My Favourite Stranger"

    Lightning Round:
    Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily — Love in Exile
    Benny Sings — Young Hearts
    Caroline Rose — The Art of Forgetting
    Fall Out Boy — So Much (For) Stardust
    Kele — The Flames, Pt. 2
    Lemar — Page In My Heart
    Pink Floyd — The Dark Side of the Moon (50th Anniversary)
    Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro — RR
    Sophie B Hawkins — Free Myself

    Other notable releases for March 24:
    03 Greedo — Halfway There
    Babymetal — The Other One
    The HIRS Collective — We're Still Here
    Jimin — FACE
    Kate Davis — Fish Bowl
    Meg Myers — TZIA
    Nickel Creek — Celebrants
    Purling Hiss — Drag on Girard
    Spectacular Diagnostics — Raw Lessons

    • 37 min
    The overlooked legacy of Sha-Rock, hip-hop's first female MC

    The overlooked legacy of Sha-Rock, hip-hop's first female MC

    In our latest episode of Louder Than A Riot we break down legacy: who gets to leave one in hip-hop and who gets left out. Decades before hip-hop's current renaissance of women rappers, there was MC Sha-Rock. Despite her influence on future generations, her contribution to the craft of hip-hop is not widely known.

    • 47 min
    New Mix: Kara Jackson, Sofia Kourtesis, Ratboys and more

    New Mix: Kara Jackson, Sofia Kourtesis, Ratboys and more

    All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen is joined by NPR Music's Hazel Cills and Marissa Lorusso to share their favorite new tracks of the week.

    Featured Songs And Artists:
    1. Kara Jackson: "pawnshop," from Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    2. feeble little horse: "Tin Man," from Girl with Fish
    3. MIIRRORS: "Sinistry," from Motion And Picture
    4. Savannah Conley: "More Than Fine," from Playing the Part of You Is Me
    5. Sofia Kourtesis: "Madres," (Single)
    6. Ratboys: "Black Earth, WI," (Single)

    • 42 min

Customer Reviews

4.3 out of 5
2.8K Ratings

2.8K Ratings

royroddey ,

Great place to hear new artists and their music

I’ve found that I enjoy Bob’s selections over Robin’s but but throw me a curveball every so often. Been listening for many years and almost always enjoy the podcast and likely hear something new and that I really enjoy.

Jay_Megs ,

considering all the songs

I appreciate all their insight, light banter and all around positivity. They have helped me discover so much of my favorite music. Thank you for providing this space. I spend all week listening to all the music recommendations from New Music Friday. I’ve tried a lot of music review podcasts and NPR’s ASC is the best!

TheGoldenBuffalo ,

What about the music?

Used to love listening to this show regularly. They always found great artists that were outside of the mainstream. Listened to a few episodes and it’s all about progressive ideology and messaging now. How the music sounds appears irrelevant. Not coming back. They’ve lost another listening with this strong shift to the progressive extreme left.

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