This week, Big Thief will release its second album of 2019. But Two Hands is a deeper accomplishment than the statistic: It's a record that finally captures the band's audible unconditional closeness.

Buying a lottery ticket is a bad deal. The odds are against you, even with a giant pot. But one guy figured out how to flip the odds in his favor ... 14 times.

The government manages a lot of things: air and water quality, roads and bridges, and, once upon a time, a whole lot of cheese.

This is the story of how plastic was invented, and how maybe we went too far with it.

On her new album, King has further honed her '80s-colored pop, rock and R&B sound. What's changed is the scenery.

Our nocturnal concert series is now on YouTube, featuring performances by Josh Ritter, Jamila Woods, Emily King and Nate Smith.

The first single from Twain's New Miami Sound EP shines in the face of heartache, and thanks life for the lesson.

The anthemic R&B single will appear on Emily King's brand new record due out Feb. 2019, her first for ATO Records.

"Records" is the latest glimpse of the Austin indie-rock band's upcoming debut album.

You, Forever was recorded in the middle of summer with no A/C, exemplified by this raw and slow-grooving first single.

Singer, guitarist and Country Music Hall of Famer Glen Campbell has died after a very public struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 81.

Courtney Marie Andrews channels the spirit of her stirring folk-rock song into a big-hearted new video.

This new video is perfectly suited to the Australian singer's lovely, dusky and '70s-tinged song.

The country-rock band is committed to the sound of brotherhood — a few voices sharing a feeling. Nowhere is that clearer than on this tender ballad.

In a Manhattan studio, some of the musicians behind Planetarium play the album's beautiful closing track.

"First it sounds and then it means," Adrianne Lenker tells NPR of the piano ballad. "That song feels like crying and laughing at the same time."

Hear the newly released, studio version of "Quick," the song that made the New Orleans-based band the winners of the 2017 Tiny Desk Contest.

This band is as tight as it gets.

Thomas turns the Van Morrison classic into pure NOLA R&B, emphasizing the wonderful impracticality of unconditional love.

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