All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite tracks of the week, including Charlie Hickey's collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers, José González's first song in Spanish and more.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. Charile Hickey: "Ten Feet Tall," from Count The Stairs
2. Francis of Delirium: "Let It All Go," from Wading
3. Floatie: "Catch a Good Worm," from Voyage Out
4. Matt Sweeney and Bonnie "Prince" Billy w/ Mdou Moctar: "Hall of Death," from Superwolves
5. José González: "El Invento" (Single)
6. Ethel Cain: "Michelle Pfeiffer," from Inbred
7. Mint Julep: "Pulse," from In A Deep And Dreamless Sleep

NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out on Feb. 19 include the disco euphoria of SG Lewis, soaring, instrumental rock from Mogwai, the Somali supergroup 4 Mars, Tash Sultana and more.

Featured Artists And Albums:
1. SG Lewis ? times
Featured Song: "Back to Earth"
2. Pauline Anna Strom: Angel Tears In Sunlight
Featured Song: "Temple Gardens At Midnight"
3. Mogwai ? As The Love Continues
Featured Song: "F*** Off Money"
4. Tash Sultana ? Terra Firma
Featured Song: "Crop Circles"
5. Lava La Rue ? Butter-Fly
Featured Song: "Magpie"
6. 4 Mars ? Super Somali Sounds From The Gulf Of Tadjoura
Featured Song: "Dhulka Hooyo"
7. Cassandra Jenkins ? An Overview On Phenomenal Nature
Featured Song: "Crosshairs"
8. The Hold Steady ? Open Door Policy
Featured Song: "Unpleasant Breakfast"

Other notable releases for Feb. 19: Animal Collective ? Crestone; Another Michael ? New Music And Big Pop; David Gray ? Skellig; Hand Habits ? Dirt; Indigo Sparke ? Echo; Katy Kirby ? Cool, Dry Place; Wild Pink ? A Billion Little Lights.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares thrilling new music from Tune-Yards, T?th's tale of playing the trumpet ? and fainting ? during a funeral, the stunning voice of a singer named mehro and more.

Featured Songs:
1. mehro: "Chance With You," from SKY ON FIRE
2. T?th: "Turnaround (Cocaine Song)," from You And Me And Everything
3. Buzzy Lee: "Strange Town," from Spoiled Love
4. Johanna Samuels: "Nature's Way," from Excelsior!
5. Moontype: "About You," from Bodies of Water
6. Tune-Yards: "hold yourself," from sketchy.

NPR Music's shortlist for the best albums out this week includes new ones from the English rapper slowthai, R&B singer Pink Sweat$, the jazz super group R+R=Now, His Name Is Alive and more.

Featured Albums:
1. slowthai ? Tyron
Featured Songs: "45 Smoke," "Push" and "ADHD"
2. Pink Sweat$ ? Pink Planet
Featured Song: tbd
3. R+R=Now ? R+R=Now Live
Featured Song: tbd
4. Jakbo Bro ? Uma Elmo
Featured Song: tbd
5. Various ? Cuba: Music And Revolution
Featured Song: tbd
6. Dominique Fils-Aimé ? Three Little Words
Featured Song: "While We Wait"
7. Anika Pyle ? Wild River
Featured Songs: "Failure II" and "June"
8. His Name Is Alive ? Hope Is A Candle
Featured Songs: "Still" and "Halo"

Other notable releases for Feb. 12: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ? New Fragility; Claud ? Super Monster; Death by Unga Bunga ? Heavy Male Insecurity; Django Django ? Glowing in the Dark; Jillette Johnson ? It's A Beautiful Day And I Love You; Pale Waves ? Who Am I?; Sports ? Get A Good Look Pt. 1; Various ? Judas and the Black Messiah OST

On this week's show, All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares a mix of old favorites and new discoveries, including Julien Baker, the return of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, BONZIE and more.

1. Julien Baker: "Favor," from Little Oblivions
2. BONZIE: "Caves," from Reincarnation
3. The Sea The Sea "Stumbling Home" from Stumbling Home
4. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: "CYHSY 2005," from New Fragility
5. Eve Adams: "Blues Look The Same," from Metal Bird
6. Suss: "Drift," from Promise

NPR Music's roundup of the week's best new albums includes a surprise solo release from Paramore's Hayley Williams, the 20th anniversary edition of J Dilla's Welcome 2 Detroit, Foo Fighters and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Foo Fighters ? Medicine at Midnight
Featured Song: "Shame Shame"
2. Odette ? Herald
Featured Song: "Trial By Fire"
3. Black Coffee ? Subconsciously
Song: "Wish You Were Here"
4. John Carpenter ? Lost Themes III
Featured song: "Alive After Death"
5. The Staves ? Good Woman
Featured Song: "Careful Kid"
6. Editrix ? Tell Me I'm Bad
Featured Song: "Tell Me I'm Bad"
7. Hayley Williams ? Flowers for Vases - descanos
Featured Songs: "Just A Lover" and "How You Doin?"
8. J Dilla ? Welcome 2 Detroit (20th Anniversary Edition)
Featured Song: "Think Twice" and "Give it Up (acapella version)"
9. Femi and Made Kuti ? Legacy +
Featured Songs: "As We Struggle Every Day" and "Hymn"
10. Archie Shepp & Jason Moran ? Let My People Go
Featured Song: "Wise One"

Other notable releases for Feb. 5: Aaron Lee Tasjan ? Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!; Black Country, New Road ? For the First Time; Jane Birkin ? Oh! Pardo Tu Dormais; Miss Grit ? Impostor; Psychedelic Porn Crumpets ? Shyga! The Sunlight Mound; Puma Blu ? In Praise of Shadows; Sun June ? Somewhere; The Weather Station ? Ignorance.

In January, we saw ourselves in FKA twigs and Jazmine Sullivan, drank from Ian Sweet's astral pop, shuffled Cassandra Jenkins' Tarot deck and got lost in William Parker's tone worlds.

Songs featured on this episode:
? FKA twigs (feat. Headie One, Fred again..), "Don't Judge Me"
? Jazmine Sullivan: "Girl Like Me (feat. H.E.R.)" from Heaux Tales
? Ian Sweet: "Drink the Lake" from Show Me How You Disappear
? Cassandra Jenkins: "Hard Drive" from An Overview on Phenomenal Nature
? William Parker: "The Golden Light (Hymn)" and "A Great Day to be Dead" from Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World

Follow the Press Pause playlist for the NPR Music staff's favorite new songs.

NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week include a Madlib-Four Tet collaboration, stunning debuts from Celeste and Arlo Parks, the Malian artist Nahawa Doumbia and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Madlib & Four Tet ? Sound Ancestors
Featured Song: "Hoprock"
2. Celeste ? Not Your Muse
Featured Song: "Tonight Tonight"
3. Weezer ? OK Human
Featured Song: "All My Favorite Songs"
4. Nahawa Doumbia ? Kanawa
Featured Song: "Didadi"
5. Arlo Parks ? Collapsed in Sunbeams
Featured Song: "Hope"
6. Ani DiFranco ? Revolutionary Love
Featured Song: "Crocus"
7. Shai Maestro ? Human
Featured Song: "Time"
8. Yasmin Williams ? Urban Driftwood
Featured Song: "Juvenessence" and "Urban Driftwood"

Other notable releases for Jan. 29: Anna B Savage ? A Common Turn; The Besnard Lakes ? The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings; The Body ? I've Seen All I Need To See; Buke & Gase With So Percussion ? A Record Of...; Goat Girl ? On All Fours; The Notwist ? Vertigo Days; PJ Harvey ? Is This Desire - Demos; Steven Wilson ? The Future Bites; Tribulation ? Where The Gloom Becomes Sound.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tunes and discoveries of the week, including a powerful song on addiction from Margo Price, a stirring violin concerto, and more surprises.

1. Hand Habits: "4th of July," from dirt - EP
2. Miss Grit: "Impostor," from Impostor - EP
3. Margo Price: "Hey Child," from That's How Rumors Get Started
4. Anna Fox Rochinski: "Cherry," from Cherry
5. Anna B Savage: "Baby Grand," from A Common Turn
6. Iceland Symphony Orchestra: "Violin Concerto by Daníel Bjarnason," from Occurrence

NPR Music's shortlist of the best albums out on Jan. 22 includes the country hip-hop of Willie Jones, electronic artist Yu Su, Atlanta rapper BRS Kash, Rhye and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Th1rt3en ? A Magnificent Day For An Exorcism
Featured Song: "The Magician"
2. Yu Su ? Yellow River Blue
Featured Song: "Klein"
3. BRS Kash ? Kash Only
Featured Song: "Do It"
4. Remy Banks ? The Phantom Of Paradise
Featured Song: "Tomorrow"
5. Rhye ? Home
Featured Song: "Black Rain"
6. Typhoon ? Sympathetic Magic
Featured Song: "Empire Builder"
7. Palberta ? Palberta 5000
Featured Song: "Fragile Place"
8. Willie Jones ? Right Now
Featured Song: "American Dream"

Other notable releases for Jan. 22: Alina Kalancea ? Impedance; Bicep ? Isles; CARM ? CARM; Elio ? Can You Hear Me Now; Elori Saxl ? The Blue of Distance; Erik the Architect ? Future Proof; Groupie ? Ephemeral; James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra ? The Wide River; Jeremiah Fraites ? Piano Piano; Lande Hekt ? Going to Hell; Logic1000 ? You've Got The Whole Night To Go; Thee Conductor ? Spirit of a Ghost; Widowspeak ? Honeychurch.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new musical discoveries, with messages of love, understanding and acceptance.

1. Bernice: "It's Me, Robin" from Eau de Bonjourno
2. Nana Yamato: "Do You Wanna" from Before Sunrise
3. Darkside: "Liberty Bell" from Spiral
4. Nora Brown: "East Virginia" from Cinnamon Tree
5. Steady Holiday: "Love Me When I Go To Sleep" from Take The Corners Gently
6. Steven Wilson: "King Ghost" from The Future Bites

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out this week include the latest solo release from Zayn, the "bratty feminist" pop of Ashnikko, the Israeli jazz quartet Apifera and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Ashnikko ? Demidevil
Featured Song: "Toxic"
2. Zayn ? Nobody's Listening
Featured Song: "Outside"
3. Sexual Harrassment ? I Need A Freak
Featured Song: "I Need A Freak"
4. Kate Davis ? Strange Boy
Featured Song: "I'll Do Anything But Break Dance For Ya, Darling"
5. Pom Poko ? Cheater
Featured Song: "Like A Lady"
6. Apifera ? Overstand
Featured Song: "Overstand"
7. Midnight Sister ? Painting the Roses
Featured Song: "Dearly Departed"
8. Pearl Charles ? Magic Mirror
Featured Song: "Take Your Time"

Other notable releases for Jan. 15: Azure Ray ? Azure Ray; Beach Bunny ? Blame Game; Buck Meek ? Two Saviors; Danielle Durack ? No Place; Frank Iero and the Future Violents ? Heaven is a Place, This is a Place; Jody Lo ? I Will Not Break the Scale; Matthew Sweet ? Catspaw; Samia ? The Baby Reimagined; Shame ? Drunk Tank Pink; You Me At Six ? Suckapunch.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares surprising collaborations between Vagabon and Courtney Barnett, Buke and Gase with So Percussion and more great discoveries.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Vagabon Feat. Courtney Barnett: "Reason to Believe"
2. Gia Margaret: "Solid Heart"
3. Shame: "Nigel Hitter" from Drunk Tank Pink
4. Buke and Gase / So Percussion: "Hold It In" from A Record Of...
5. awakebutstillinbed: "beauty" from stay who you are
6. Another Sky: "It Keeps Coming" from Music For Winter Vol. 1

Spanish punk, metal-sampling rap, Kenyan grindcore, Russian synth pop ? this is how NPR Music's resident Viking coped, raged and soothed himself in 2020.

Songs featured on this episode:
? Accidente: "Lo que importa" from Canibal
? Backxwash: "Spells" from God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It
? Aisha Orazbayeva: "Oliver Leith: Blurry Wake Song" from Music for Violin Alone
? Maral: "Bushehr" from Push
? Moor Mother: "Circuit Break" from Circuit City
? ????????????: "????????? ????????" from ???????? ???????? ? ??????
? Claire Rousay: "Two Things" from Both
? Meurtrieres: "Alienor" from Meurtrières

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In 2012, All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton rented a small cabin in the woods and invited some of their closest friends for what they were sure would be the party of the century.

In 2018, Steve Martin, John Legend, William Shatner and more joined Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton for All Songs Considered's annual holiday extravaganza, which unfolded like a bad high school play.

Kacey Musgraves, Conor Oberst and more special guests join All Songs hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton on a steam engine to the North Pole.

Every year, All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton go on a musical holiday adventure. This year, they take a rocket ride to outer space and are joined by a few special guests.

Join hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton as they set out on a snowy road trip in search of the true spirit of the holiday season.

Ann Powers joins All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen to discuss your favorite albums of the year.

On this edition of All Songs Considered, we celebrate the life of Beethoven and the lasting powers of his music in the 250 years since his birth.

Originally recorded live on NPR Music's YouTube channel, host Robin Hilton is joined by NPR's Ann Powers and Sidney Madden, along with contributor Christina Lee to count down NPR Music's top five songs of the year.

Radio Milwaukee's Tarik Moody leads a discussion on NPR Music's number one album pick and why it's one of 2020's most important and potent releases.

In just over a year, Sault has released three albums with little warning and scant member information. If the group's previous albums, '5' and '7' brought the funk-soul party, then 'Untitled (Black Is)' "funnels rage and sorrow into contemplative streams of thought, over equally brooding music meant to slow your heart rate," Marcus J. Moore wrote in his review for NPR Music. He further called the album "a robust collection of funk, soul, meditative spoken-word and protest chants meant to score the full spectrum of Blackness."

This conversation about the Sault album originally ran live on NPR Music's YouTube channel shortly after the record was released in June.

In this bonus feed drop we share an episode of NPR Music's new podcast Louder Than A Riot. Hosts Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden spent a year investigating the link between the rise of hip-hop and mass incarceration. In this episode they look at the story of Mac Phipps, a rapper whose own lyrics were used against him in court.

We pick our favorite music released in November 2020, featuring Kali Uchis' heart-struck devotionals, Tierra Whack's playful pop, metal duo Jucifer's tribute to Arabic music and Salaam Remi's star-studded soundtrack of the Black experience.

Songs featured:
? Salaam Remi: "Live from Soul in the Horn" from Black on Purpose
? Shameika, "Shameika Said (feat. Fiona Apple)"
? Tierra Whack, "Peppers and Onions"
? Ólafur Arnalds: "Spiral" from Some Kind of Peace
? Kali Uchis: "la luna enamorada" from Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios) ?
? Jucifer: "Mitochondria" from ??? (Nazm)

NPR Music's pick for the best new albums out this holiday week include an epic return for The Smashing Pumpkins, Three 6 Mafia rapper Juicy J, a previously unreleased Bill Evans concert and more.

Featured Albums:
1. The Smashing Pumpkins ? Cyr
Featured Song: "Save Your Tears"
2. Juicy J ? The Hustle Continues
Featured Song: "1995"
3. Ane Brun ? How Beauty Holds The Hand Of Sorrow
Featured Song: "Trust"
4. Sundae Crush ? A Real Sensation
Featured Song: "Good Boy"
5. Bill Evans ? Bill Evans Live At Ronnie Scott's
Featured Song: "A Sleeping Bee"
6. Various ? Pop Ambient 2021
Featured Song: "Mittsommer"

Other notable albums out Nov. 27: Bad Bunny ? El Último Tour del Mundo; Bille Joe Armstrong ? No Fun Mondays; Bombino ? Live in Amsterdam; JFDR ? Dream On; Miley Cyrus ? Plastic Hearts.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite songs of the week including Steve Earle performing the work of his late son, Justin Townes Earle who died of an apparent drug overdose in August.

Featured Tracks:
1. Steve Earle: "Harlem River Blues" from J.T.
2. Buck Meek: "Pareidolia" from Two Saviors
3. Horsegirl: "Ballroom Dance Scene" (Single)
4. Painted Shield: "Ten Years From Now" from Painted Shield
5. Miloe: "Change Your Mind" from Greenhouse
6. Katy Kirby: "Traffic!" from Cool Dry Place

Hear the first episode of the podcast, created with Vermont Public Radio's Erica Heilman, as the band reveals how they made their latest album, Free Love.

Erica Heilman spent hours talking with singer Amelia Meath and synthesist Nick Sanborn. We get a deep insight into how this couple works together ? in this case, it began with Amelia's voice memo. It was just her singing, unaccompanied. And though they've made music together for the past seven-plus years, Nick thought it might be the best thing she'd ever done. Give a listen to Shaking Out The Numb, and see how the song unfolds.

NPR Music's picks for the week's best new albums includes the debut, studio full-length from rapper Megan Thee Stallion, the first all-Spanish album from Kali Uchis, U.K. dub artist The Bug and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Megan Thee Stallion ? Good News
Featured Song: "Savage Remix"
2. Mamalarky ? Mamalarky
Featured Song: "Drug Store Model"
3. The Bug (feat. Dis Fig) ? In Blue
Featured Song: "Take"
4. Kali Uchis ? Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios)
Featured Song: "La Luna" and "te pongo mal"
5. Partner ? Never Give Up
Featured Song: "Honey"
6. Shygirl ? ALIAS
Featured Song: "Twelve"
7. Grandaddy ? The Sophtware Slump 20th Anniversary Edition
Featured Song: "Jed's Other Poem" (solo piano version)
8. Visionaries ? V
Featured Song: "Put It Together"

Other notable releases for Nov. 20: 5 Billion In Diamonds ? Divine Accidents; Anna McClellan ? I Saw First Light; Ida Mae ? Raining For You; Neil Young ? Archives Vol. II (1972-1976); Ronn McFarlane and Carolyn Surrick ? Fermi's Paradox; Tayla Parx ? Coping Mechanisms; Tank and the Bangas ? Friend Goals; War on Drugs ? Drugs Live.

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite tunes of the week, including a captivating project with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and yMusic's CJ Camerieri.

The Playlist:
1. Routine: "Cady Road," from And Other Things
2. CARM: "Land," from CARM
3. lemin.: "One Brain," from Petey Passed Away
4. Lavender Diamond: "In The Middle," from Now Is The Time
5. Indigo Sparke: "Baby," from Echo
6. Joy On Fire: "Thunderdome," from Thunderdome

NPR Music's picks for the week's best new albums include the long-awaited So Help Me God from 2 Chainz, country singer Chris Stapleton, the Afrobeats of Davido, Gillian Welch rarities and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Chris Stapleton ? Starting Over
Featured Song: "Starting Over"
2. Davido ? A Better Time
Featured Song: "I Got A Friend"
3. Quakers ? II: The Next Wave
Featured Song: "Gun Control"
4. Hachiku ? I'll Probably Be Asleep
Featured Song: "I'll Probably Be Asleep"
5. Gillan Welch and David Rawlings ? Boots 2: The Lost Songs Vol. 3
Featured Song: "What Can I Do?"
6. 2 Chainz ? So Help Me God
Featured Song: "YRB"
7. Katy J Pearson ? Return
Featured Song: "Tonight"
8. Aesop Rock ? Spirit World Field Guide
Featured Song: "Holy Waterfall"
9. Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin ? FlySiffu's
Featured Song: "Mind Right"
10. Marika Hackman ? Covers
Featured Song: "Between the Bars"

Other notable releases for Nov. 13: AC/DC ? Power Up; BENEE ? Hey u x; Goodie Mob ? Survival Kit; Gwenifer Raymond ? Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain; Jesse Kivel ? Inifite Jess; Jules Shear ? Slower; Nané ? Nané; Randall Bramblett ? Pine Needle Fire; Meg Myers ? Thank You For Taking Me To The Disco and I'd Like To Go Home Now; Told Slant ? Point The Flashlight And Walk; TSHA ? Flowers.

The Icelandic composer talks with All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen about finding rebirth through making music, the growing pains of turning 30 and how Death Cab For Cutie changed his life.

NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week include pure escapism from Kylie Minogue's Disco, the "destructive" pop-rap of Bree Runway, Argentinian bandoneon master Dino Saluzzi and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Kylie Minogue ? Disco
Featured Song: "Magic"
2. Bree Runway ? 2000AND4EVA
Featured Song: "ATM (feat. Missy Elliott)"
3. Little Mix ? Confetti
Featured Song: "Sweet Melody"
4. Fred Hersch ? Songs From Home
Featured Song: "All I Want"
5. Dino Saluzzi ? Albores
Featured Song: "Adios Maestro Kancheli"
6. Digawolf ? High Arctic
Featured Song: "Cry Wolf"
7. Birdy ? Piano Sketches
Featured Song: "Open Your Heart"
8. Krust ? The Edge of Everything
Featured Song: "Antigravity Love"
9. Madison Cunningham ? Wednesday
Featured Song: "Hold On"
10. Pylon ? Pylon Box
Featured Songs: "Feast on My Heart" and "Cool"

Other notable releases for Nov. 6: Christo Graham ? Turnin'; David Bowie ? Metrobolist (aka The Man Who Sold The World) 50th Anniversary Edition; Dave Brubeck ? Lullabies; Donovan Woods ? Without People; Enio Morricone ? Morricone Segreto; Heather Trost ? PETRICOR; Leslie Odom Jr. ? The Christmas Album; Neil Young ? Return to Greendale; Olafur Arnalds ? Some Kind of Peace; Sangre de Muerdago ? Xuntas; Tunng ? Tunng Presents... Dead Club; Wilco ? Summerteeth Deluxe Edition (21st anniversary).

A treasure trove of unheard Joni Mitchell recordings has just been released with more than a hundred tracks from the early 1960s, including almost 30 original songs she's never released before.

On this special edition of All Songs Considered, NPR Music's Ann Powers and host Bob Boilen explore these early works of Joni Mitchell and play selections from the new box set from Rhino. This includes some of Joni Mitchell's first-known recordings, like a radio studio recording made in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan when she was just 19-years old. We also hear some live concert recordings, including one made at the Ann Arbor Canterbury House 53 years ago, and demos she made on a home reel-to-reel tape machine. This includes one she made for her mom in 1965. Over the course of this remarkable box set and nearly six hours of music, we hear Joni Mitchell grow from a singer of folk songs to a playful and sophisticated lyricist with a brilliant voice.

On this edition of All Songs Considered, we pick our favorite music released in October 2020, featuring South African jazz group SPAZA, Wendy Eisenberg's acrobatic guitar play, Jean Dawson's adventurous pop and Touché Amoré's desperate hardcore.

Songs featured in this episode:

* Jean Dawson: "Devilish" from Pixel Bath
* Touché Amoré: "Reminders" from Lament
* Wendy Eisenberg: "Futures" from Auto
* Stephanie Lambring: "Joy of Jesus" from Autonomy
* Xavier Omär: "Find Me" from If You Feel
* SPAZA: "Bantu Education" from UPRIZE!
* Bertrand Chamayou: "Dessner: Song for Octave" from Good Night!

NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out on Oct. 30 include a surprise release from Common, the return of rapper Busta Rhymes, singer Sam Smith, the country artist Cam, Ane Brun and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Outkast ? Stankonia 20th Anniversary Edition
Featured Songs: "So Fresh, So Clean" and "B.O.B. (A Cappella version)"
2. Sam Smith ? Love Goes
Featured Song: "Love Goes (feat. Labrinth"
3. Busta Rhymes ? Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God
Featured Song: "True Indeed"
4. Ane Brun ? After the Great Storm
Featured Song: "After the Great Storm"
5. Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou ? May Our Chambers Be Full
Featured Song: "Ancestral Recall"
6. Common ? A Beautiful Revolution Pt. 1
Featured Song: "Fallin'"
7. Nothing ? The Great Dismal
Featured Song: "Say Less"
8. Elvis Costello ? Hey Clockface
Featured Song: "We Are All Cowards Now"
9. Cam ? The Otherside
Featured Song: "The Otherside"
10. Junk Magic ? Compass Confusion
Featured Song: "Laser Beaming Hearts"

Other notable releases for Oct. 30: 38 Spesh ? Interstate 38; Andrew Bird ? Hark!; Creature Comfort ? Home Team; Dizzee Rascal ? E3 AF; Echo Collective ? The See Within; Goo Goo Dolls ? It's Christmas All Over; Grateful Dead ? American Beauty 50th Anniversary Edition; Joni Mitchell ? Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 1 - The Early Years (1963-1967); King Khan ? The Infinite Ones; LÉON ? Apart; Marco Pavé ? Crossroads; Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche ? I Can Still Hear You; War on Women ? Wonderful Hell.

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen talks with The Flaming Lips frontman about drugs, the tragic loss of friends, the impact on families and how it all informs the band's latest album, American Head.

NPR Music's shortlist of the best new albums out on Oct. 23 includes Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You, a new concept record from Gorillaz, the electronic artist known as Actress and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Gorillaz ? Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
Featured Song: "The Valley of the Pagans"
2. Actress ? Karma & Desire
Featured Song: "VVY"
3. Songhoy Blues ? Optimisme
Featured Song: "Assadja"
4. Keaton Henson ? Monument
Featured Song: "Ambulance"
5. Junglepussy ? JP4
Featured Song: "Spiders"
6. Bruce Springsteen ? Letter to You
Featured Song: "Ghosts"
7. clipping. ? Visions of Bodies Being Burned
Featured Song: "96 Neve Campbell"
8. Raye Zaragoza ? Woman in Color
Featured Song: "The It Girl"
9. Laura Veirs ? My Echo
Featured Song: "Freedom Feeling"
10. Xavier Omär ? If You Feel
Featured Song: "Find Me"

Other notable Oct. 23 releases: Adrianne Lenker ? Songs; Adrianne Lenker ? Instrumentals; Ben Harper ? Winter is for Lovers; Ela Minus ? Acts of Rebellion; The Elwins ? The Elwins IV; Fuzz ? III; Jeff Tweedy ? Love is King; Joel Ross ? Who Are You; Luluc ? Dreamboat; The Mountain Goats ? Getting Into Knives; No Thank You ? Embroidered Foliage; PUP ? This Place Sucks Ass; Sam Amidon ? Sam Amidon; Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings ? Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Rendition Was In; TechN9ne ? Fear Exodus; This is the Kit ? Off Off On.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks of the week, including a powerful anthem for racial justice from MILCK, Debussy's "Clair de Lune" played on a theremin and more.

Featured Songs:

1. Steady Holiday: "Living Life" from Take The Corners Gently
2. The Weather Station: "Robber" (Single)
3. Kacy & Clayton And Marlon Williams: "I Wonder Why" from Plastic Bouquet
4. MILCK: "Somebody's Beloved (feat. Bipolar Sunshine)" (Single)
5. Grégoire Blanc and Orane Donnadieu: "Clair de Lune" (Single)
6. Mary Lattimore: "Pine Trees" from Silver Ladders

NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out this week include rapper Black Thought's stunning Streams of Thought Vol. 3, a solo debut from The National's Matt Berninger, Beabadoobee and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Black Thought ? Streams Of Thought Vol. 3: Cane & Abel
Featured Song: "State Prisoner"
2. Autechre ? Sign
Featured Song: "M4 Lema"
3. SPAZA ? Uprize!
Featured Song: "Bantu Education"
4. Beabadoobee ? Fake It Flowers
Featured Song: "Care"
5. Matt Berninger ? Serpentine Prison
Featured Song: "Distant Axis"
6. Open Mike Eagle ? Anime, Trauma And Divorce
Featured Song: "Asa's Bop"
7. Good Sad Happy Bad ? Shade
Featured Song: "Blessed"
8. Deep Sea Diver ? Impossible Weight
Featured Song: "Impossible Weight"
9. Helena Deland ? Someone New
Featured Song: "Dog"
10. Mipso ? Mipso
Featured Song: "Big Star"
Bonus Album: Sturgill Simpson ? Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1: (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)
Featured Song: "I Don't Mind"

Other notable Oct. 16 releases: Annie ? Dark Hearts; Cordovas ? Destiny Hotel; Growing Concerns Poetery Collective ? Big Dark Bright Futures; Gulfer ? Gulfer; Goldmund ? The Time It Takes; Homeboy Sandman & Quelle Chris ? Don't Feed the Monster; Jennifer Castle ? Monarch Season; James Blake ? Before; Kevin Morby ? Sundowner; Low Cut Connie ? Private Lives; Manu Grace ? No Room for Error; Mr. Gnome ? The Day You Flew Away... Visit www.npr.org/allsongs for more

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen and NPR Music's Otis Hart share their favorite songs of the week, including the return of The Antlers, the folk duo Luluc, Tuareg rock artist Mdou Moctar and more.

1. Luluc: "Emerald City" from DREAMBOAT
2. Danielle Durack: "Broken Wings" from No Place
3. The Antlers: "Wheels Roll Home" (Single)
4. Squirrel Flower: "Chicago" (Single)
5. Mdou Moctar: "Chismiten" (Single)
6. Jake Blount: "Roustabout" from Spider Tales
7. Sam Sweeney "Unearth/Steppy Downs Road" from Unearth Repeat

NPR Music's shortlist of the best new albums out this week includes the soaring synth-pop of Future Islands, the country duo Brothers Osborne, remixed classics from John Lennon and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Future Islands ? As Long As You Are
Featured Song: "Waking"
2. Carla Bruni ? Carla Bruni
Featured Song: "Partir dans la nuit"
3. The Budos Band ? Long in the Tooth
Featured Song: "Long in the Tooth"
4. Machinedrum ? A View Of U
Featured Song: "Wait For U"
5. Brothers Osborne ? Skeletons
Featured Song: "Lighten Up"
6. METZ ? Atlas Vending
Featured Song: "Pulse"
7. John Lennon ? Gimme Some Truth
Featured Song: "Angela"
8. Laraaji ? Moon Piano
Featured Song: "Stillness"
9. The Goodbye Party ? Beautiful Motors
Featured Song: "Unlucky Stars"
10. Mary Lattimore ? Silver Ladders
Featured Song: "Silver Ladders"

Other notable releases for Oct. 9: Cut Worms ? Nobody Lives Here Anymore; JEEN ? JEEN; Kronos Quartet ? Long Time Passing; Loudon Wainwright III ? I'd Rather Lead A Band; Ron Miles ? Rainbow Sign; Touche Amore ? Lament; Travis ? 10 Songs; Yo La Tengo ? Sleepless Night (ep).

NPR Music's Bob Boilen and Marissa Lorusso share songs that call for unity and self-reflection in turbulent times.

Featured Tracks:
1. Maren Morris: "Better Than We Found It"
2. Palberta: "Before I Got Here" from Palberta 5000
3. Gulfer: "Nature Kids" from Gulfer
4. Purple Witch of Culver: "Trig"
5. Loudon Wainwright III: "You Rascal You" from I'd Rather Lead A Band
6. Sam Amidon: "Time Has Made A Change" from Sam Amidon

NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out on Oct. 2 include the latest from West Coast rapper YG, the K-pop group BLACKPINK, Icelandic singer Jónsi and more.

Featured Albums:
1. BLACKPINK ? The Album
Featured Song: "Pretty Savage"
2. YG ? My Life 4Hunnid
Featured Song: "Laugh Now, Kry Later"
3. Laura Jane Grace ? Stay Alive
Featured Song: "Old Friend (Stay Alive)"
4. Eartheater ? Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin
Featured Song: "Fantasy Collision"
5. Jónsi ? Shiver
Featured Song: "Shiver"
6. Rósín Murphy ? Rósín Machine
Featured Song: "We Got Together"
7. Gabriel Garzón-Montano ? Aguita
Featured Song: "Mira My Look"
8. Noah Haidu ? Doctone
Featured Song: "Steepian Faith"

Other notable releases for Oct. 2: 21 Savage ? Savage Mode 2; Aloe Blacc ? All Love Everything; Bartees Strange ? Live Forever; Born Ruffians ? Squeeze; Brent Cobb ? Keep 'em On They Toes; Dawes ? Good Luck With Whatever; Dawn Landes ? Row; Drive By Truckers ? The New Okay; Robert Plant ? Digging Deep: Subterranea; Shamir ? Shamir; Westside Gunn ? Who Made the Sunshine

We pick our favorite music released in September 2020, featuring Cuban hip-hop artist La Dame Blanche, Masego's summer wanderlust, Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker and a reimagined mass.

? Adrianne Lenker: "anything" from songs
? Waylon Payne: "Old Blue Eyes" from Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher and Me
? Masego, "Passport"
? La Dame Blanche: "La Maltratada" from Ella
? Theo Alexander: "re; Waiting" from Animadversions
? Sarah Kirkland Snider: "Kyrie" from Mass for the Endangered

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen shares his favorite new tracks, including a collaboration between Kurt Vile and John Prine, queer country from Shamir, the gorgeous harmonies of Fleet Foxes and more.

1. Beabadoobee: "Worth It" from Fake It Flowers
2. Fleet Foxes: "Going-to-the-Sun Road" from Shore
3. Darlingside: "Green + Evergreen" from Fish Pond Fish
4. Kurt Vile with John Prine: "How Lucky" from Speed, Sound, Lonely KV
5. Shamir: "Other Side" from Shamir
6. Told Slant: "Family Still" from Point the Flashlight and Walk
7. Spacial Relations: "Default to Truth" from Talking to Strangers

NPR Music's picks for the best albums out on Sept. 25 include a long-awaited release from Sufjan Stevens, a searing new work from Public Enemy, the pop singer Joji and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Sufjan Stevens ? The Ascension
Featured Song: "Lamentations"
2. Public Enemy ? What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?
Featured Song: "Grid"
3. Nappy Roots ? 40rty
Featured Song: "Do Better"
4. Joji ? Nectar
Featured Song: "Pretty Boy"
5. Anna Von Hausswolff ? All Thoughts Fly
Featured Song: "Sacro Bosco"
6. Deftones ? Ohms
Featured Song: "Ceremony"
7. Sad13 ? Haunted Painting
Featured Song: "Hysterical"
8. Lydia Loveless ? Daughter
Featured Song: "Love is Not Enough"
9. Botany ? End The Summer F(or)ever
Featured Song: "Your Whole Life"
10. The War & Treaty ? Hearts Town
Featured Song: "Little Boy Blue"

Other notable releases for Sept. 25: The Band of Heathens ? Stranger; Blitzen Trapper ? Holy Smokes Future Jokes; Carrie Underwood ? My Gift; Diana Krall ? This Dream of You; Fleet Foxes ? Shore; Idles ? Ultra Mono; Shy Boys ? Talk Loud; Surfer Blood ? Carefree Theater; Sylvan Esso ? Free Love; Thurston Moore ? By the Fire; Tim Heidecker ? Fear of Death; Will Butler ? Generations.

In a conversation with All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen, Yusuf Cat Stevens explains how ? and why ? he decided to re-record his landmark album a half-century after it was first released.

NPR Music's picks for the best new albums out on Sep. 18 include a long-awaited, self-titled release from Alicia Keys, PC Music's A.G. Cook, a rediscovered Thelonious Monk recording and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Alicia Keys ? ALICIA
Featured Song: "Me x 7"
2. A.G. Cook ? Apple
Featured Song: "Airhead"
3. Anjimile ? Giver Taker
Featured Song: "To Meet You There"
4. Butcher Brown ? #kingbutch
Featured Song: "Cabbage"
5. Thelonious Monk ? Palo Alto
Featured Song: "Blue Monk"
6. Jealous of the Birds ? Peninsula
Featured Song: "Pendulum"
7. Sly5thAve ? What It Is
Featured Song: "What It Is"
8. Fenne Lily ? Breach
Featured Song: "Elliott"
9. Steve Arrington ? Down to the Lowest Terms: The Soul Sessions
Featured Songs: "Make A Difference" and "Soulful I Need That In My Life"

Other notable releases for Sept. 18: Ava Max ? Heaven & Hell; Body Double ? Milk Fed; Cults ? Host; Daniel Romano ? How Ill Thy World Is Ordered; Deradoorian ? Find the Sun; Dig Nitty ? Reverse of Mastery; Eastwood ? It Never Gets Easy; Eivør ? Segl; Elderbrook ? Why Do We Shake in the Cold?; Gracie & Rachel ? Hello, Weakness, You Make Me Strong; Handsome Ghost ? Some Still Morning; Joan Osborne ? Trouble and Strife; Johann Johannsson ? Retrospective II; Nate Rocket Wonder & Roman GianArthur ? Antebellum (Soundtrack); Sarah Davachi ? Cantus, Descant; Saunder Jurriaans ? Beasts; Semisonic ? You're Not Alone; Yusuf Cat Stevens ? Tea for the Tillerman; Ziggy Marley ? More Family Time.

This week's new mix from All Songs Considered includes solo work from Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, recorded with his sons, a stunning track from Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker, a song for the times from Cautious Clay and more.

Featured Tracks:
1. Kevin Morby "Campfire" from Sundowner
2. Adrianne Lenker "anything" from songs
3. Maple Glider "As Tradition"
4. Jeff Tweedy "Love Is The King" from Love Is The King
5. BONZIE "Alone"
6. Cautious Clay "Agreeable" from Agreeable