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Welcome to your all-in-one destination for every NPR Music podcast. We break down the best new albums to hit streaming each week on New Music Friday; we share the latest songs worthy of your playlists on All Songs Considered; there’s off-the-rails...

Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly...

Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Newsy stories that try to capture what...

A weekly one-hour conversation with guest experts and callers about travel, cultures, people, and the things we find around the world that give life its extra sparkle. Rick Steves is America's leading authority on travel to Europe and beyond. Host and...

NPR's weekly news quiz hosted by Peter Sagal. Have a laugh and test your knowledge with today's funniest comedians and a celebrity guest.Hate free content? Try a subscription to Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!+. Your subscription supports public radio and...

Joe Tiboni hosts Big City Blues Cruise - a full spectrum of blues from the Delta to electric.

The best in blues every afternoon from 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. with Michael Jewett.

From Memphis to Motown, Wendy Wright presents blues that are a little less electric and a little more eclectic!

50’s and 60’s jazz can be heard on the weekly Groove Yard program, which began in 1989. The idea was to feature the period when the long-playing record allowed musicians to record more extensively, which in turn led to the rise of independent record...

50’s and 60’s jazz can be heard on the weekly Groove Yard program, which began in 1989. The idea was to feature the period when the long-playing record allowed musicians to record more extensively, which in turn led to the rise of independent record...

The nation’s flagship jazz program profiles the new jazz that matters, and tips its hat to the pioneers. A co-production of WBGO, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and NPR Music, Jazz88 has been an affiliate of the program since its very first episode.

Michael Jewett is a 40+ year veteran of the WEMU staff. Join him every weekday for 89.1 jazz mornings and afternoons.

Daily national news in context, thoughtful ideas and perspectives, and reviews of important new music, books, and events in the arts.

Show recorded before a live audience in Charleston, WV. Now in its 20th year,the show has established a long tradition of featuring national and international acts in almost every style of music.Show produces an average of 26 new shows a year. Most...

Chuck Leavens love of music knows no bounds with experience in many music formats as his love of music is wide open to the sounds of life. He has known many artists and grew up with a few and to this day appreciates and promotes this music to a new...

The Roots Music Project, hosted by Jeremy Baldwin, focuses on the creases and intersections between genres, styles and influences in music and features everything from folk to country, from blues to roots rock, from rockabilly to bluegrass and just...

Hosted since February, 2012 by Nik Thompson, the Sunday Best is a program devoted to honoring traditions, while striving to start new ones every week. This program of classic jazz features in-depth examination of swing, traditional jazz, and blues.

Jessica Webster presents the full spectrum of jazz with everything from ballads, swing, salsa, and bebop to deep delta and wailing Chicago blues.

A little jazz, a little roots, a little Alt-Country with some classic tracks thrown in. Every Friday from 12 p.m. - 2 p.m with your host Jeremy Baldwin.

The Great American Songbook meets the modern day songbook every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.

Jazz and soul from the 60s, 70s and 80s with Wendy Wright from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. every Wednesday.

From civil wars in Bosnia and El Salvador, to hospital rooms, police stations, and America's backyards, National Public Radio®'s Peabody Award-winning correspondent Scott Simon brings a well-traveled perspective to his role as host. He interviews...

Covers newsmakers and artists, scientists and politicians, music makers of all kinds, writers, thinkers, theologians and all manner of news events.