Ann Powers

Hear the nihilist rock of PUP, R&B singer Khalid, the celestial, Enya-inspired pop of Weyes Blood and more on our list of the best new albums out on April 5.

The sinister pop of Billie Eilish, lyrical rap from Quelle Chris and a long-shelved album from Marvin Gaye are just some of the albums on our short list of the week's best new releases.

Townes started making music as a teenager and rose in Canada's flourishing country scene before moving to Nashville at 19.

Her songs are poetic and political, steeped in both punk and cabaret, and sung in a voice that blends Eartha Kitt's cool with Nina Simone's fury.

Live music awakens mind, body and soul — and that's what we need more than ever this year. Ann Powers' favorite concerts of 2018 helped create a shelter from everyday life's disorganized noise.

Women dominated NPR Music's list of the best albums of 2018. But the revolution behind the changes in music today is deeper, and more subtle, than the numbers reveal.

The All Songs gang looks back at this year's anthems and unmissable milestones, from Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer to Childish Gambino's mind-blowing video for "This Is America," Rosalía, Mitski and more.

At a concert in Los Angeles this week in honor of her 75th birthday, Joni Mitchell listened carefully as a hand-picked group of peers and protégés entered into a dialogue with her inexhaustible voice.

This year, we considered the most influential women and non-binary artists making music today. Now, we want to know what you think: Who deserves to be most acknowledged? Who makes your list?

This week's batch of essential new albums includes Robyn's melancholy return to the dance floor, rock-and-roll madness from Ty Segall, the otherworldly voice of R&B singer NAO and more.

Ketch Secor is a Renaissance man who not only continues to make great music with Old Crow, but has also branched out into children's education.

To cope with the tumult of a difficult week and the anniversary of the #MeToo movement, music critic Ann Powers spent the week with music from women expressing one thing: Being fed up.

This duo makes inspirational music pulled from Americana roots music and the couple's personal experience of surviving and thriving in the sometimes perilous 21st Century.

One day after performing the songs in Nashville, the country supergroup has released all three digitally ahead of the release of its new album, Interstate Gospel.

All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers and Jewly Hight about the standout performances and surprising discoveries at this year's AMERICANAFEST.

The legendary singer returns with a version of the Freddy Fender country weeper "Before the Next Teardrop Falls."

A pair of concerts scheduled for Nov. 6 and 7 in Los Angeles will see a deep roster of famed artists performing songs from throughout Mitchell's deep catalog.

The song appears on Piano & A Microphone 1983, an upcoming collection of cassette recordings Prince made at his home studio.

Get taken to church with gospel songs by The Clark Sisters and Marvin Sapp, and remember that Bill Clinton played Aretha Franklin's "Think" off his phone.

Revision's redemptive potential permeates Paul Simon's 14th solo album. In the Blue Light features ten recordings of old works, newly considered.