In addition, we also lost Ray Drummond, Bunky Green, Donald Moore, Jesse Sharps, Joe Daley, Hal Galper, Sven-Åke Johansson, Pops Mohamed, George Freeman, Larry Appelbaum, Junior Byles, Jards Macalé, Nana Caymmi, Cristina Buarque, Preta Gil.

In Memoriam 2025: The Musicians We Lost @totalvibration.bsky.social

Hello from somewhere off I-80! This is the project I work on all year long with NPR’s research librarians (aka RAD). It means a lot to me to remember these musicians, producers and industry folks who make our lives so much better.

Always read Sheldon Pearce!

Let the sunshine in: After a decade of chilly trap beats and freaky club tales, the tide is turning on the genre's dominant sound. n.pr/4scqzTO

“You can see the kingdom from the tailgate.” I’m on Morning Edition talking about my favorite lyric of the year, from Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, and why you can hear it 3 ways @npr.org NPR music critics share the best song lyrics of 2025 www.npr.org/2025/12/23/n...

drone for the holidaze ck6c-cs47 enyc-wse5 bdkq-cd2r ahy9-wdwl reuk-ccde drwk-xcw3 hhdd-e364 hc4e-7s9m hssb-54g6 q44l-bark 9cs4-xnw9 yh4h-eelt yqsh-3b5b y8hs-cxnw 2kcc-cpp4 dyjc-wrba stg4-cd47 hqv4-kmcw hbbj-g6ds 4xx7-36xd 44qa-ckmc thorsrubberhammer.bandcamp.com/yum

That one time I wrote and recorded a pop punk Christmas song for Tiny Desk with hamsters @npr.org youtu.be/4bFlkyWkhqA?...

I have restringing guitars for over half my life, but this quarter scale classical guitar is going to kill me.

Can we get a Karen on this?

Kennedy Center union regarding illegal changes happening at Kennedy Center now

The one and only time I've been to Seattle (to see Roadside Monument reunite, a very Seattle thing to do), this storefront felt like a warm hug before a redeye flight.

dude what

here's some cretinous kansas city noise rock for the morning canyons.bandcamp.com/album/one-ma...

it's just so dumb www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...

I brought Sixpence None the Richer to the Tiny Desk for some holiday cheer (and melancholy) @npr.org youtu.be/sSY_w9odHPk?...

For the eagle-eyed viewers, you will notice that Steve Hindalong is playing bells and percussion for Sixpence None the Richer's Tiny Desk. He's a member of The Choir, a Christian alt-rock band that's had a tremendous impact on my life, ever since I heard this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK_B...

new braunfels, texas legends

I brought Sixpence None the Richer to the Tiny Desk for some holiday cheer (and melancholy) @npr.org youtu.be/sSY_w9odHPk?...

Time for Hermeto

Just looked at my tea cabinet the same way I do my record collection: MAN THIS RULES I WANT TO ENJOY THESE ALL AT ONCE

You're probably not going to find my No. 1 album of 2025 on anyone else's Best Of Hip-Hop/Rap list. But I can tell you that the artists who've topped some of CABBAGES' previous year-end lists are now staples of other outlets'/journos' year-end lists. So... www.cabbageshiphop.com/2025-best-hi...

I have never been on Reddit, so someone sent this to me and it felt nice. www.npr.org/2025/12/11/g...

The only Cameron I’m listening to this Winter

NPR Music’s Best Albums of 2025 list is live! Each capsule features a link to hear the music on any streaming service. TYSM to @npr.org critics @annkpowers.bsky.social, @idislikestephen.bsky.social, @natechinen.bsky.social, @totalvibration.bsky.social, @robinpr.bsky.social. Follow them!

Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported? Noem: We have not deported military veterans. Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.

Great to see Yara Asmar’s “everybody I love is sleeping and I love them so so much” included in Lars’ top 10 albums of 2025. Makes me happy to know people are listening!

No surprise my buddy @totalvibration.bsky.social's top album of the year, "Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark" by Gwenifer Raymond, is a stunner. I can't wait to pore over the rest of his top ten (I am already familiar with two, I think that's a record for me).

It's hard to find but here is my PERSONAL list of top albums for 2025. Sign up for the NPR Music newsletter to see another 10 plus another 15 top songs this weekend www.npr.org/2025/12/11/g...

Here's my top 10 albums of 2025 list @npr.org, featuring Gwenifer Raymond's phenomenal fingerstyle guitar record, plus blurbies on Brìghde Chaimbeul, Ryan Davis, Habak, Silvana Estrada, etc. www.npr.org/2025/12/11/g...

NPR Music did something different for its best albums of 2025 list: 12 No. 1 albums picked by NPR Music critics, producers and editors. www.npr.org/2025/12/11/g...

[to the tune of "Wonderful Christmastime"] Soup and salad Unlimited breadsticks wow (OLIVE GARDEN, HIRE ME NOW)

2025: The Year That Year-End Lists Went Behind a Paywall (not judging! just noticing!)

I wrote about Hayley Williams' modern Southern Gothic masterpiece. www.npr.org/nx-s1-5616663

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

I listened to this album yesterday with the kiddo and we air guitar’d so hard.

In my car, sitting outside my house, listening to ‘Leprosy’ by Death on compact disc, the only correct format and location to listen to death metal.

Send me your favorite guitar albums of 2025 that sounded nothing like a guitar.

“Go tell it on the mountain Cuz that’s what it’s about, baby!” My kid not knowing the lyrics to Christmas song is the best

My phone just autocorrected Caetano (as in Caetano Veloso) to Acetaminophen 🤔

Embrace winter’s sadness with flowery riffs; listen to wimpy black metal. flowingdownward.bandcamp.com/album/radio-...

Still don't get Geese.

I always miss Tiny Mix Tapes, but especially during year-end list szn.

Gotta get the morning crowd in on this wild sludge.

Bless Chunklet for keeping the noise rock howl of Harvey Milk alive. This one’s a WREK ripper from when the band was barely even a band. Sounds nasty. chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/wharve...

Tomorrow morning we celebrate the most holy of holidays: Pie for Breakfast. 🥧

According to the Polar Bear Express Experience in Bryson City, N.C., Santa Claus is Southern Baptist. I am really holding myself back from the jokes.

Last night I had a dream that @kimletgordon.bsky.social gave a dance performance in my neighbor’s house as the living room quickly filled with water. My kid, thankfully, brought her floaties.

I was a goo goo dolls truther, like, twenty days before the tiny desk, just fyi

All I want for Christmas is the Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special soundtrack on vinyl. youtu.be/t_qFK37L6rM?...