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Bad Bunny’s year-end awards march officially began with his album of the year win at the Latin Grammys.
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2025 is going down in the books as a huge one for protest in music — artists all over the sonic map have expressed their views in song and through action. Isabella Gomez Sarmiento wrote about two lanes of this activism: one, the social media commentary offered by artists like Jesse Welles; and two, a collective move by more than 1000 artists asking streaming services to block their music from being available in Israel, in response to ongoing attacks against Palestine.
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Nearly a decade after the rapper Prodigy passed, his partner in the iconic Queens duo Mobb Deep has returned with a new album under the group’s name. Rodney Carmichael spoke with Havoc about this return and Mobb Deep’s powerful history.
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Halloween has a way of reanimating things — including songs. No one should be surprised that Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” made the charts in the holiday’s wake, establishing a new charts record for the late superstar. Stephen Thompson takes a look.
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Heartfelt thanks to everyone who’s signed up for NPR+ in order to hear the historically-oriented podcast my pal Daoud Tyler-Ameen and I are doing. We talked about it on All Songs Considered this week while each sharing a few of our current top songs with host Robin Hilton.
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No recent cinematic experience has plucked at my heartstrings as much as You Got Gold, the documentary celebrating John Prine’s music through the lens of the tribute concerts his beloved community staged after his death at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Every star in this film — and there are plenty, including Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Tyler Childers, Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam and Bob Weir — was also a friend of John’s, and their testimonies to his gentle genius combine with their renditions of his songs to make the film unforgettable. It’s screening in select markets now and opens wide right around Thanksgiving. Check your local listings and this website for showtimes; it would make for a perfect Thanksgiving weekend family watch.
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Prine’s classic duet with Iris Dement “In Spite of Ourselves” has been popping up in a lot of movies — most recently, in Lynne Ramsay’s latest wild slice of life Die My Love. I’m a Ramsay stan, and was thrilled to be plunged back into one of her hallucinatory stories. If you love Ramsay’s work the way I do, you’ll be thrilled to read this in-depth interview conducted when her great film Morvern Callar was released, recently reposted on substack by its author, Ray Pride. And from Edith Bowman, here’s a great podcast conversation with Ramsay and music supervisor Raife Burchill about the stunningly great Die My Love soundtrack.
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Back in 2012, NPR Music's then-jazz writer Patrick Jarenwattananon introduced me to an amazing singer named Theo Bleckmann, whose latest album dared to approach the songbooks my number one fave, Kate Bush. We discussed Bleckmann’s foray for this site, and from then on I was a major fan of the German-born, New York City-dwelling artist, too. Bleckmann has finally returned to Bush’s catalog on his latest album — and goes beyond, from Baroque gospel to disco to an absolutely mind-blowing reimagining of a Beatles chestnut. The new disc is called Love and Anger (after Kate) and it will astonish you.
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As 2025 draws to a close, I’m already looking for voices that might carry me through 2026. Here are songs by two emerging singer-songwriters I’ll be watching next year: Nashville’s Jessie Gray and Galwegian Dove Ellis.
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I don’t know about your family, but as winter approaches this year we keep catching colds. If you’re a meat eater, I’m here to tell you this early COVID-era ground pork soup really heals all ills.
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