Kacey Musgraves, Yo La Tengo, Parquet Courts, Amy Winehouse, More

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New Mix: Kacey Musgraves, Parquet Courts, Yo La Tengo, More Singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves has been pushing the boundaries of contemporary country music since releasing her remarkable, 2013 major label debut, Same Trailer, Different Park. She's back now with a new album and two new songs that solidify her place in the "new" Nashville sound by digging even deeper into sparkly, spikey pop. We've got one of the two new singles, "Butterflies," which she calls an "ode to the right person giving me wings and the first song I wrote after meeting my now husband." Hear that and a whole lot more on this week's mix of essential new songs. Hear The Discussion And Songs All Songs Considered It Turns Out Not All Amy Winehouse Demos Were Destroyed In 2015, four years after singer Amy Winehouse's death, Universal Music U.K. CEO David Joseph announced that he'd destroyed all of her demo recordings in an attempt to prevent anyone from releasing them posthumously. Despite that, composer Gil Cang, who wrote songs for Winehouse early in her career, has posted a Winehouse track called "My Own Way" to YouTube. Hear The Unreleased Demo All Songs Considered Watch The First Entry To The 2018 Tiny Desk Contest We're one week into the 2018 contest and love what we're seeing. Submissions have already come in from all over the country featuring music and desks ofall varieties. With that, we'd like to take a moment to celebrate the first entry we received: Ian Bamberger's "A Privateer's Eyes." See The Tiny Desk Contest Entry Tiny Desk Lee Ann Womack: Tiny Desk Concert Lee Ann Womack occupies rare terrain in country music. Though massively popular singles led to her commercial success and widespread recognition, these days, she's working on the fringes of the genre. Her 2017 record, The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone, evokes the country music of Womack's Texas upbringing as the daughter of a country radio DJ, name-checking Hank Williams and covering George Jones. See The Tiny Desk Performance All Songs Considered In Skating Polly's 'Queen For A Day' Video, Heavy's The Head That Wears The Crown Skating Polly's music has skittered back and forth along the genre spectrum between alt-rock and what it calls "ugly pop." The band's lead single for The Make It All Show, "Queen for a Day," skews towards rock as it drips with punk sensibilities: from Kelli Mayo's snarling vocal performance to the simple and stripped down verses leading into the thrashing of guitars on the chorus. Hear The Song

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