Bon Iver On World Cafe
It's a stretch to call "Beth/Rest" the year's most divisive song, but it's hard to discuss Bon Iver's second album without weighing in on its '80s-style closer.
View ArticleThis One's For The Chicken: A Super Bowl Party With A Purpose
This Sunday will mark the 16th annual installment of "Chicken Bowl," my Super Bowl party, which doubles as a grand fried-chicken-eating contest. As many as 80 friends, coworkers, enablers and...
View ArticleFor Fans Of The NFL Draft, A Heady Cocktail Of Hope And Sloth
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View ArticlePop Culture Happy Hour: Of 'Avengers' And The Other A-List
Our intrepid host, Linda Holmes, is wrapping up her self-imposed isolation in the mountains of North Carolina, so the rest of the Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was forced to soldier on without her for...
View ArticlePop Culture Happy Hour: How Long Is Too Long?
Half of the Pop Culture Happy Hour crew is scattered to the four winds — if, by "the four winds," you mean "an assortment of movie theaters in Toronto"— but before parting ways, the old gang met up to...
View ArticleHail To The Chipmunks: A Holiday Classic Re-Revisited
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View ArticleSunday, 8 p.m. ET: Spend Grammy Night Staring At Screens With Us!
With the conclusion of Sunday night's ceremony, Linda Holmes and I have now live-blogged fully one-eleventh of the Grammy Awards' 55 annual incarnations. Below is our original post and an archived live...
View ArticleBaby Bands, Pop Stars And Room-Filling Joy: What To Expect At SXSW 2013
Listen to Stephen Thompson's conversation with Audie Cornish on All Things Considered by clicking the audio link.The South by Southwest music festival kicked off Tuesday with the first of five straight...
View ArticleJittery Jams: 10 Songs For Coffee Lovers
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View ArticleThe Good Listener: How Do You Pick The Songs For Your Wedding?
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View ArticleThe Good Listener: When You Make Someone A Mix, What Do They Owe You?
We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and amid the shampoo samples we accidentally tossed into the fireplace is a slew of smart questions about how music fits into our lives — and, this week, the...
View ArticlePop Culture Happy Hour: Fan Gatherings And Fall Television
We recorded this week's episode during the brief interregnum between the end of Glen Weldon's trip to the San Diego Comic Con and the beginning of Linda Holmes' two weeks at the Television Critics...
View ArticleHurray For The Riff Raff, Live In Concert: Newport Folk 2013
The New Orleans band Hurray for the Riff Raff exists as a vehicle for the powerhouse songs of singer-songwriter Alynda Lee Segarra, whose gigantic voice conveys the grit of bluesy soul while still...
View ArticlePop Culture Happy Hour: 'The Bridge' And The Doctor's Many Faces
For one more week, our host and pal Linda Holmes has been roaming the desolate plains of Los Angeles at the Television Critics Association press tour, with only catered lunches and lavishly appointed...
View ArticlePop Culture Happy Hour: 'Blue Jasmine' And A Summer Movie Postmortem
As summer was giving way to fall, preseason football was giving way to actual football, and Linda Holmes' week was giving way to the Toronto International Film Festival, the Pop Culture Happy Hour gang...
View ArticlePop Culture Happy Hour: Requested Reboots And 'Duck Dynasty'
With intrepid host Linda Holmes trapped in the air-conditioned movie theaters of Toronto, the Pop Culture Happy Hour gang was forced to reconstitute itself yet again for this week's episode — this time...
View ArticleJohn Legend: Tiny Desk Concert
At 34, John Legend has sold millions of records, won nine Grammys, collaborated with many of the biggest stars in music (Jay-Z, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, The Roots, et al), and achieved the kind of...
View ArticleIndie-Pop Albums That Make The Cut Are More Than Mere Collections
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: At NPR Music, they're wrapping up the year the best way they know how, with their hotly contested list of their 50 favorite albums of 2013. Now, all this week, we'll get...
View ArticleBon Iver On World Cafe
This session, from Sept. 2, 2011, is part of our Vintage Cafe series, in which we revisit some of our best studio performances.It's a stretch to call "Beth/Rest" 2011's most divisive song, but it's...
View ArticleThis One's For The Chicken: A Super Bowl Party With A Purpose
This Sunday will mark the 16th annual installment of "Chicken Bowl," my Super Bowl party, which doubles as a grand fried-chicken-eating contest. As many as 80 friends, coworkers, enablers and...
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