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07/25/2025

We love us some Black Swan Records around here.

This Week in Texas Music History blues singer Maggie Jones the Texas Nightingale cut her first record. KUTX 989

07/25/2025

Great pics of Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Dave Alvin at Mountain Stage. 📸📸📸

07/25/2025

World Cafe caught up with Maren Morris, who also performed five songs in studio.

On her first record following her divorce, the Texas star navigates her bisexuality, motherhood and the do's and don'ts of dating in your 30s.

07/25/2025

If you haven't subscribed to the All Songs Considered podcast in the past, now is a great time to join the fun. Your support today means more than ever.

Since launching in 2000, All Songs Considered has been NPR's flagship program for music discovery, artist interviews and conversations with friends and fellow music lovers about the really big questions, like what was the best decade for music, are there albums everyone can agree on, and what do you...

07/25/2025

It's New Music Friday! Here's our five favorite albums out today, July 25.

07/25/2025

With his beard, long hair and brown felt fedora, the jazz flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione cut an unforgettable figure in American culture.

With his beard, long hair and brown felt fedora, the jazz flugelhorn player and composer cut an unforgettable figure in American culture.

07/23/2025

Jimmy Eat World's Jim Adkins features on the new song by indie songwriter Jay Som. It's called "Float," and you can hear it on All Songs Considered this week. It's in your podcast app now.

07/23/2025

Jeff Tweedy is releasing a TRIPLE album in September. All Songs Considered featured one of the project's early singles on its last episode. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

07/23/2025

NPR Music's Lars Gotrich speaks to NPR Morning Edition about the legacy of Ozzy Osbourne.

Ozzy Osbourne, dubbed "The Prince of Darkness," has died at the age of 76. His band Black Sabbath laid the foundation of heavy metal music and has inspired bands for five decades.

07/22/2025

Rest in peace, Prince of Darkness.

Known as the "Prince of Darkness," the lead singer of the massively influential rock band Black Sabbath, Osbourne reached another generation via the MTV reality show The Osbournes in the early 2000s.

07/22/2025

At age 60, four decades into her career, Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz has arrived. Last year she released 'Revolución Diamantina,' a breathtaking album recorded by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Gustavo Dudamel. It won Ortiz three Grammys in February.

Now, the same forces return for 'Yanga,' another arresting recording of Ortiz's orchestral music that showcases her signature bright colors, vivacious rhythms, tuneful melodies and bold ideas. The album is so good it just might deliver a few more awards to her shelf.

At age 60, the Mexican composer has finally won the recognition she deserves, with new recordings, prestigious residencies and a star conductor championing her music.

07/08/2025

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