This year, our series challenging the canon of popular music looks at how music by women defines our current era. Come celebrate with us at two events we're hosting with Lincoln Center Out Of Doors.

Ratboys' punchy and playful post-country tune gets an absurd, but whimsically bittersweet animation.

Gender stereotypes are boring and pink wine is delicious. Roséwave is for everyone — and this playlist, with songs from Drake to Sam Hunt to Weezer, proves it.

This is apparently what happens when Annie Clark shows up to leather night at your local gay club. Happy Pride month, everyone.

The eight-part series will premiere in 2019, with each episode based on one of Parton's songs.

The San Francisco band formerly known as Plush has written a soundtrack for a breakup's aftermath from its forthcoming album Stranger to the Pain.

The Australian songwriter's new album charts an internal landscape that holds anger and compassion in equally stunning measure.

The video for the Montreal group's "DayDreaming" is, according to director Bucky Illingworth, about "the relation between daydreaming and personal identity."

Lavender shows Nandi Rose Plunkett coming to terms with the reality that pain is often an important intermediary to wisdom.

While our judges are looking for a winner, we're back with another fan favorite Tiny Desk Contest vote! This week, we're looking at the desks of the Tiny Desk Contest.

Browse every entry to the 2018 Tiny Desk Contest over on the Contest website and while you wait for a winner, check out some great entries we saw this week.

While the TDC judges watch video submissions on the hunt for this year's winner, NPR Music is hosting weekly fan favorite votes. This week, we're celebrating desks out of their natural habitats.

The Philly group has crafted a densely textured, emotionally resonant third album, shot through with restlessness and singer Frances Quinlan's acrobatic melodies.

The 2018 Contest is officially closed for entries! For the artists who sent in their songs, the hardest part is over — but for us at NPR Music, it's just beginning. Check out some new entries we love.

Just ahead of our entry deadline this coming Sunday, we're sharing more Tiny Desk Contest entries that grabbed our attention.

Part of an emerging legacy in drag spurred on by the mainstream success of RuPaul's Drag Race, Mattel has built a career as a comedy queen and folk singer with two albums and a TV show to her name.

There's still time to enter the Tiny Desk Contest — send in your video before midnight EST on March 25. In the meantime, check out some more entries we love.

Texas-based songwriter Hannah Read says she spent several years trying to write the song, inspired by a tall tale her brother would tell about Smith. "'Out There' is about never knowing," Read says.

The hazy pop song is from the New York songwriter's upcoming album S***** Hits. She defines the title as "good-time songs you can have a bad night with, driving alone."

The Bay Area band features members of Joyride, Watercolor Paintings, Void Boys and Dreamspoiler, and combines the best elements of each of them for maximum, collaborative joy.