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The great songs of 2020 were as abundant as the rest of the year was a drag. Think of these 100 jams as a silver linings playlist for the worst year of our collective lives.

Over 130 critics voted on the best jazz albums of 2018 — celebrated elders dominated the top of the results, but a class of younger musicians is rising.

The most popular global TikToks of the year are a mix of the over-the-top, the weird and the wonderful. Here's a closer look at five favorites.

NPR member stations share a mix of popular songs playing on their airwaves in September, including music from Clairo, Leon Bridges, The War on Drugs, and more.

One-third of the Texas blues-rock mainstay ZZ Top has died. Dusty Hill, the band's bassist and one of its vocalists, was 72 years old, and according to his bandmates died at his home in Houston.

Manilla Road and Carcass kept the young'uns on their toes while SubRosa made metal gorgeous.

You can still enter the Tiny Desk Contest for a few more weeks, but here are some entries that have caught the eyes — and ears — of NPR Music already.

This year's unmissable jazz releases came in two flavors: breakthrough releases by driven young newcomers, and a heap of unearthed treasures from the vault.

To know what tomorrow sounds like, one need only listen to the women in rap today. Our 23-song playlist represents but a handful of the many women rappers who left their mark on 2020.

The first single from Harry's House feels both risky and vulnerable in a way that's different from Harry Styles' solo career so far.