1+ hour, 47+ min ago  (293+ words) Mitski is back with her eighth studio album, Nothing's About To Happen To Me. This is Mitski doing what she does best, which is turning the smallest human moments into something mythic. Take the track "Charon's Obal," which is about…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (596+ words) I bet that you look good on the dance floor / Dancing to electro-pop like a robot from 1984" With these lines, Arctic Monkeys burst onto the scene of the mid-2000s garage rock revival. Their debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (187+ words) I'm going to give you some eight-letter words. For each one insert two letters in a row to make a familiar 10-letter word. Ex. INTIMATE "--> "INTIMIDATE Last week's challenge comes from listener Ward Harten."Think of a well-known couple whose…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (77+ words) Adrian Quesada's newest album is a love affair with balada music'Iowa Public Radio Adrian Quesada's newest album is a love affair with balada music We revisit Peter O'Dowd's June 2025 conversation with Oscar and Grammy-nominated musician Adrian Quesada about his album…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (240+ words) John Fogerty: Tiny Desk Concert'Iowa Public Radio John Fogerty: Tiny Desk Concert For his Tiny Desk, John Fogerty brought what means the most to him. Family was accounted for: his sons, Tyler and Shane, played in the band, while his…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (376+ words) In 2025, we crammed rap and rock legends, instrumental virtuosos, Broadway musicals and, well, puppets and robots behind a desk in the NPR Music office. Never forget: Tiny Desk has the range. We published 115 (!) concerts this year. There's no way to…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (385+ words) So much of the holiday season is about finding a balance between bright lights and dark nights. Sixpence None the Richer's music finds depth in the in-between. Sixpence None the Richer: Tiny Desk Concert The Tiny Desk hasn't seen string…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (310+ words) Metroid Prime 4 stumbled multiple times before being completely scrapped and restarted over the decade it took to make. Although it found its way back to Retro Studios, the team behind the original trilogy, the scars of this protracted and troubled…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (279+ words) De La Soul's 1989 album 3 Feet High and Rising is one of the greatest hip-hop records of all time. It was released at an important time in the rise of the genre, and along with their contemporaries A Tribe Called Quest,…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (246+ words) Banjo, harp and drums are not exactly your typical jazz trio. But B'la Fleck, Edmar Casta'eda and Antonio S'nchez make that combination come alive in a project they call the BEATrio. S'nchez jokes that it might be "the world's most…...