Bob Boilen

Beneath this bright song, filled with beat and bass, lies a rich message of empowerment for survivors of sexual violence.

A bonkers new song from Shugo Tokumaru helps wash away an unwelcome earworm, Lana Del Rey lauds (her?) youth, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy weirds out over love and Bob revisits an old favorite.

Agnes Obel manipulated the Tiny Desk to better suit the deeply alluring and powerful music she brought to us.

Ahead of the release of his newest record, Ryan Adams sits down with NPR Music's Bob Boilen to consider his favorite love songs, including Springsteen, Dylan and Sonic Youth.

Esmé Patterson has dropped the banjos and folk from her previous project Paper Bird, and in their place are electric guitars and a backing band worth getting behind.

Lauren and Daniel Goans, together the band Lowland Hum, explore the inspirations and experiments that make up their newest record, 'Thin.'

'No one wants to see an old woman do improvised stick work darling,' Harding's mother, her co-star, told her. She was wrong.

Sean Rowe's extraordinary baritone and his simple, strained stories are equally compelling — hear his newest, 'Gas Station Rose.'

On this week's All Songs Considered we've got everything from effervescent pop to Polish ambient music and Japanese psych-rock.

These four fabulous singers are from Australia, contrary to their name — All Our Exes Live In Texas. It's a wink at a George Strait song, but this is a band with their own country flair.

We premiere a very cheery-sounding piece of music from Swedish songwriter and singer Jens Lekman, though the story behind it is decidedly dark at the same time.

"I feel like this is my lane, guitar-based pop music." Martin Courtney and his band Real Estate's fourth album In Mind, takes cues from one of the great albums of all time, The Beatles Abbey Road.

This episode of All Songs Considered covers the very ends of spectrum, from carefree celebration to soul-baring sadness. Hear new tracks by Missy Elliott, Mount Eerie, Young Fathers, and more.

Bob Dylan continues his love for the Great American Songbook with a new album of classic songs called Triplicate. Listen to him singing "I Could Have Told You," first recorded by Sinatra in 1954.

Watching Lisa Hannigan's new video for "Undertow," we see the singer underwater, a sense of falling and floating captured beautifully.

It won't take long to make a simple video and send it to the Tiny Desk Contest. Enter by Sunday, Jan. 29 at 11:59 p.m. ET to win a Tiny Desk concert and a U.S. tour.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen talks with guitarist Delicate Steve about his new instrumental album, why he doesn't need a singer and the uncertain future of guitar music.

In the new video for Split Single's "Untry Love," singer Jason Narducy tries out a plethora of tricks for entertaining the audience in those moments when he's not actually playing music.

Singer Jenni May Toro had that question on her mind while going through a divorce. The answers she got when she asked her community, as shown in this video for "Pull Me," may surprise you.

On this week's All Songs Considered: Musicians face personal challenges, political uncertainty, the state of humanity — and rally.