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Jazz critic Francis Davis says veteran musicians — particularly Wadada Leo Smith and Henry Threadgill — are making some of the most adventurous music of their careers.

Peso Pluma seems to be dominating these days. He delighted audiences at Coachella, made history on The Tonight Show, and he's got hit after hit after hit on multiple music charts.

Pop singer Ari Gold was discovered while singing at his brother's bar-mitzvah at the tender age of five. The Bronx native opens up about being gay, his Orthodox Jewish background and his music.

Pop acts embraced the ukulele and the saxophone. Rock bands crafted weird, widescreen albums that still brimmed with solid, hummable songs. And a few notorious recluses returned to the public eye.

Women, guitar rock and New York dominate our listeners' musical landscape in this year's poll for 2017's best new artists (so far).

"Thinking 'Bout Somethin'" is a perfectly soul-infused pop song completed with cowbell, horns and belted-out harmonies. Like its video, the song sums up Hanson's modern-day persona as a band that's polished, charming and confident enough to delight in everything that came before it.

The electro-pop group performs some of its enduring classics at the Tiny Desk.

Natalie Prass writes intimate, confessional songs with a lush, orchestral sound. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with her about her debut album.

Redbone's hit cracked the Billboard Top 5 this month in 1974. It was a first for a band with all Native and Mexican American members — but the song itself had a quietly political message, too.

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, masters of throwback, have delivered a tribute to Black pop's imperial era. If you're feeling the album's sound, there's plenty more where it came from.