The first @npr.org New Music Friday podcast episode of 2026 is in your feed now. Every Friday, Stephen Thompson @idislikestephen.bsky.social and a DJ from the NPR Music Network chat about the five coolest records to hit streaming at midnight. @wnxpnashville.bsky.social’s Celia Gregory guests. 👇

Please stop reposting that BNO News account. All they’re doing is reposting information from Minnesota journalists but without any credit or sourcing.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

“Keep Your Ear to the Ground,” the amazing new history of D.C. punk zines by our comrade John Davis, is now available direct through Dischord dischord.com/band/john-da...

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Happy New Year to them 🎊

A witchy new years to you and yours.

We’ve arrived at the final entry in @npr.org’s Best Music of 2025 series: The Year in Guitar, with @totalvibration.bsky.social and @robinpr.bsky.social. A perfect Twixmas soundtrack, imho. Listen to the episode or read the list below: www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...

Which Tiny Desk made an audio engineer question everything? Which one made a producer want to cry? Touch grass? Look back on the year in Tiny Desk, with the people who make them. n.pr/44PkNO9

It was my honor

That time of year again!

Support zines. see-sawdotfun.bandcamp.com/merch/see-sa...

Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.

Rick Steves 2028

“The Dodgers’ combined payroll and tax bill for the 2025 season lands north of $586MM.”

In a year when hip-hop was frequently absent from the pop charts, NPR's music critic found that looking in darker corners revealed a genre that was flourishing. trib.al/eVOKR6y

The All Songs Considered host had his mind blown by Rosalía's LUX and his heart broken by Patrick Watson's uh oh, and was taken for a wild ride by Geese. n.pr/4oOsE5B

In our time, it's easy to shut your mind, driven by fear or misinformation. This year, NPR Music's pop critic found the antidote in music that encouraged exploring n.pr/494BlEe

There is some tally poppy shiz going on with Fred again.. If you've loved The Bug, Mala, Keysound Recordings in the past, I don't know how you can possibly hate his new music. I get that it's "perfecting" music made 10-15 years ago, but it sounds _amazing_ on a nice sound system.

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!

NPR Music's list of the 125 Best Songs of 2025 is live! Thank you to all of the @npr.org public radio stations out there who helped curate this cross-genre list of loud and soft songs. There's nothing else out there quite like it. www.npr.org/2025/12/09/n...

NPR Music's list of the 125 Best Songs of 2025 is live! Thank you to all of the @npr.org public radio stations out there who helped curate this cross-genre list of loud and soft songs. There's nothing else out there quite like it. www.npr.org/2025/12/09/n...

billy woods is like the joker. the real mvp year after year.

Petey is going in. Just a matter of when.

Jeff Kent's 10 best seasons: 44.8 fWAR Dustin Pedroia's 10 best seasons: 44.9 fWAR Kent, MVP, 5x All-Star 55.4 career WAR, 35.8 7yr-peak, 45.6 JAWS, 3.9 WAR/162 Pedroia, MVP, 4x All-Star, 2x World Series 51.8 career WAR, 40.9 7yr-peak, 46.4 JAWS, 5.6 WAR/16

If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention (to Jon Caramanica).

finally you can own this groundbreaking album, painstakingly remastered to sound best through your phone speaker

middlebury college student lia smith killed herself one month ago after facing harassment for being a trans athlete you will not hear her name once on cable tv don’t let them erase her #TDOR #TransDayOfRemembrance

Covering Jamal Khashoggi's murder was one of the most disturbing things I've worked on. Hearing Trump say he was "extremely controversial" and people "didn't like him" is chilling. Hard to take any other way than he thinks there is moral ambiguity in the murder of a journalist.

Incredible feeling when 20 years of hating pays off

The girl group had a vision for how to rewire its troubled industry. The industry had other plans. n.pr/3LJ784s

Picked up two former AOTYs at Buch Spieler in Montpelier, VT today. Been looking for these for a loooong time.

The most Canadian-looking player in baseball breaking the country’s heart.

Too many “exceptional” people refuse to reckon with the meaning of that word.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

I hope Six By Seven is seeing a bump from this.

Pre-arb salaries are a much bigger deal than free agent salaries. Fix that first.

Every Televised and Filmed Joy Division Performance. “One hour and twenty-five minutes. That’s apparently all of the footage that exists of Joy Division playing their music on TV and in concert.” [kottke.org]

It's ADHD Awareness Month! Do you know where your phone is?

Pulp have been nominated for the Mercury Prize four times. The second time, when they won for Different Class, Norma Waterson was also nominated. The third time, Norma's daughter Eliza Carthy was nominated. The fourth time, Eliza's dad, Norma's husband, Martin Carthy was nominated.

A guitar titan is gone. Farewell to the Spaceman; here's my NPR obituary for KISS legend Ace Frehley. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/n...

Zero players with an .800 OPS. 1 pitcher who threw more than 132 innings. 97 wins. Amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t make bonehead mistakes.

Leaders treating layoffs at their own companies like some sort of retribution is really, really gross.

Celia Gregory from @wnxpnashville.bsky.social is such a joy whenever she visits our New Music Friday podcast. You can hear why she's becoming a morning institution in Nashville. lnk.to/sw0BHZ

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

The U.S., Russia and Saudi Arabia. 3 peas in a pod.

Happy Yankees Elimination Day 2025. Sixteen years, 0 championships, despite Brian Cashman annually averaging the second-highest payroll and spending $3.9 billion.