Otis Hart

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer helped write the blueprint for Americana music, with songwriting credits including "The Weight" and "Up on Cripple Creek."

The NPR Music deputy director shares his favorite albums and songs of 2022.

The Irish folk duo unveils its new album with a stirring lullaby.

Drown out the news cycle with an epic slice of bath-bomb techno.

The Berlin-based goth-pop artist plumbs the tale of that ever-entwined couple buried in ash in Pompeii as a way into the concept of perpetual love.

This latest remix of the 2020 track might be the Trojan Horse we need to introduce amapiano, a spacious form of deep house music, to America.

Listen to one of the many highlights from Ghetts' Conflict of Interest.

Almost 30 years after her breakthrough, Liz Phair is still writing songs worthy of a greatest hits album.

The NPR Music senior manager shares his favorite albums and songs of 2021.

From Jersey club to the U.K. underground, 2021's best electronic music looks like a complex melting pot of genre and history.

Listen to the South African producer's latest bliss transmission.

Wales, the rural coastal country just west of England, isn't where you'd expect to find one of the year's better bangers, but Juice Menace is here to blow up your Welsh stereotypes.

The drama of Koreless' "Black Rainbow" comes at you from all sides: undulating synths, urgent clatter and hi-res pizzicato loops that pop out of your speakers.

The high-low breakbeats and ambient bassquakes on Overmono's "So U Kno" sound right out of the classic Burial playbook, but our underground overlord rarely has this much fun these days.

The title track to the mysterious collective's fifth LP is an aspirational bop about overcoming social injustice.

In a Grammy ceremony filled that mixed surprisingly intimate moments with familiar staged bombast, Megan Thee Stallion won best new artist and Beyoncé became the most awarded performer of all time.

The visionary producer and singer whose music melded house, techno, trance, pop and the avant-garde died after an accident in Athens.

On Ondara's New Album, He Shares 'Tales From Isolation

The Honesty & Self-Reflection Of The Indigo Girls

Bettye LaVette's 'Blackbirds' Might Be Just What You Need Today