NPR's Daniel Estrin asks Nora Felder, the music supervisor for the series "Stranger Things," how she went about scoring the series over its decade-long run which ended this week.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ana Gonzalez and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their new podcast Our Common Nature from WNYC, which connects music with nature and place.

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On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an ...

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Which song lyrics from 2025 most moved our NPR Music critics?

It's Friday, it's mid-November, and the weekly deluge of new albums felt like it was finally starting to slow down as we approach the holidays — until we looked at our Nov. 14 list of LPs, EPs, ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

From a song by a certified superstar that came out in the very first week of January to breakthroughs from lesser-known indie acts, here are selections from NPR Music's list of the best songs of 2025.

As we look back at our international reporters' most memorable stories of the last year we revisit a story about a Ukrainian ...

When the dust settles on 2025, what songs will remain in heavy rotation? We look back at a dizzying amount of music and share some of our picks for the best tracks of the year. What you'll hear in ...

It's Friday, and there's a new De La Soul album in the world. Cabin In The Sky is the pioneering hip-hop group's first full-length release since founding member Trugoy the Dove died in 2023. The ...