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The NPR Music editor and All Songs Considered contributor shares her favorite albums of the year, including one that feels like a survival guide to the apocalypse.

The Alt.Latino and El Tiny host shares his favorite records of the year, including jazz musicians from across Latin America as well as vocalists inspired by folk, rock and pop whose work defies genre.

These tunes from 2011 each exemplify how great singers and great songs fit together. Hear music featuring vocalists like Kurt Elling, Eliane Elias and Norah Jones.

Fractured grooves got the noise kids dancing and we went heavy on deconstructing tape loops in 2012.

Live on YouTube, Bob Boilen and Raina Douris watched their favorites entries to the 2020 Contest and discussed what made them stand out from the thousands we saw this year.

Highlights from New York's one-night festival of global sounds included music from Haiti's dance-clubs, Ukrainian experimental theater and Mexican cabarets.

Compiling a Top 10 list for Folk Alley is difficult because it wears so many different musical hats. Each hour, the music stream from WKSU presents more than just the typical folksinger, so care was taken to create an all-encompassing list of great songs. The songwriter still prevailed, though — probably because there are so many of them.

Leprechauns, parades and green beer—at least in this country they're the trappings of a successful St. Patrick's Day. But the soul of Ireland is found in its music. Belfast-born flutist Sir James Galway picks his Top-5 favorite songs for the holiday.

NPR Music's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento reports on the artists making waves on the pop charts. Taylor Swift is now back at number one on the Hot 100. But Bad Bunny hasn't gone anywhere.

Deacon's music for the documentary Rat Film is a pulsing electronic soundscape made, in part, by rats themselves. He explains how in this track-by-track breakdown of the score.