Joshua Bote
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If nothing else, "No Tears" eases Ariana Grande back into the public eye as a pop star without the weight of the Manchester tragedies breaking her.
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Newfound infatuation is tenuous and uncertain, but Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth revel in it for as long as they can.
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Yes, Beyoncé, obviously. But we're scheduling alarms to watch these other nine artists, too.
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Our judges are one week closer to picking this year's winner — in the meantime, check out the entries that stood out to us this week.
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Over a hazy reflection pool of guitar plucking and blue saxophone hits, the Brooklyn R&B multi-instrumentalist shares a lovers' quarrel.
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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.
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The Internet has a great way of merging pieces of pop culture that may seem disparate — to wit, one Kanye West fan is using scenes from the hit NBC comedy to review the Chicago rapper's discography.
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In a video for the rollicking power-pop song "Oh Baby," Alexis Taylor's eyeballs take part in an absurdist Nora Ephron-style fantasy.
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Named for the finger-reddening snack, Clairo's hooky ode to a doomed fling gets a cameo-laden music video directed by Matthew Dillon Cohen.