In "Nobody," the deceptively up-tempo, new single from her upcoming album, Be The Cowboy, Mitski grapples with a lingering loneliness – an emptiness that even her own celebrity can't erase.
On this week's All Songs Considered, hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton have a bleakly funny track from The Decemberists, jangly-pop from Shy Boys, gentle folk from Bermuda Triangle and more.
Highlights from June 22 include the intense industrial rock of Nine Inch Nails, the new joint project of Lecrae & Zaytoven and the wildly ambitious, shape-shifting jazz of Kamasi Washington.
To mark the reissue of The Blue Notebooks, Richter has released a short film featuring The Handmaid's Tale star and a potent piece of music from the 2004 album.
Sylvan Esso's live performance is where it's at. Anyone who has seen the duo perform is immediately engrossed by their indomitable energy and raw, idiosyncratic style.
In this video premiere, Jonah Sirota's viola parts orbit one another restlessly, fueled by improvisation, melancholy and a vibrating set of austere images.
Bacior's radiant new song reflects on feelings of rootlessness, alienation and the ways people can form an identity without a single place to shape and define them.
The lead single from the three-guitar rock band's first album in four years, LP5000, wonders what remains of a neighborhood when its residents are pushed out.
The band Mothers is back with new music that is sonically more challenging and lyrically intriguing. It imagines a device that that can shift or imply guilt onto a particular person, group, or idea.
For this D.C.-area R&B singer, music is her outlet to unpack her thoughts to keep from spiraling. Abraha shares her darkest hues of her forthcoming EP with airy tone and splintered production.
On this week's playlist, Luis Fonsi takes a calypso excursion with Stefflon Don, Daddy Yankee gets the band back together in the name of reggaeton viejo and some newcomers fuse every genre in between.
For Saintseneca, fatalistic gloom blends seamlessly with a kind of playful sprightliness. Hear "Frostbiter," the first single from a forthcoming album called Pillar of Na.
Many of your favorite musicians of 2018 (so far) defy genres and expectations, from the idiosyncratic wonder of Superorganism to the stirring, swirling ballads of serpentwithfeet.
School is really hard — and for many, music is the one thing that grounded them or made them feel connected to something bigger. Hear a mix of songs that listeners told us got them through school.
tUne-yArDs’ Merril Garbus made history as the very first guest in the brand new NV89 ‘Biggest Little Studio.’ She sat down with host Willobee just hours before her electric performance at Cargo Con
