2018’s Best Tiny Desk Concerts; Find The Perfect Headphones
Plus, the best rap, electronic and classical albums of 2018
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Happy new year! We hope you rang in 2019 with good company, good snacks and great music. Some of our favorite artists started the new year by performing their own takes of beloved songs: Japanese Breakfast celebrated by covering Carly Rae Jepsen in Philly; Hop Along covered Daniel Johnston in Boston; Screaming Females covered Nirvana in Chicago. (One NPR Music newsletter editor celebrated by covering “Dreams” by The Cranberries, but we aren’t naming any names.) Here’s to a year of unearthing musical discoveries and finding new favorites!
Yours in reasonable resolutions, Marissa Lorusso, Sidney Madden and Lyndsey McKenna
Last year was proof that in the world of streaming music services, Latin artists have been cleaning up. (Including Puerto Rico’s Bad Bunny, who dropped a surprise album on Christmas Eve.)
From standard-bearing singers and instrumentalists to genre innovators, industry businesspeople and activists, All Songs Considered remembers the musicians we lost in 2018.
To Read
It's not just baby boomers who are nostalgic for the sounds of their youth: Even to people born decades later (hello, millennials), the music of 1968 stands out.
Didn't like what Santa brought? Use our Tiny Tech Tips guide to get a pair of headphones you love.
Tiny Desk
Out of the 128 Tiny Desks published last year — from rap legends to rock stars to bluegrass bands to classical prodigies, our most wide-ranging pool of performances yet — we did the painstaking work of picking the 25 best sets. You’re welcome.
One More Thing
Mexican archeologists have unearthed what might be the most metal album title of all time: Enter the Flayed Lord.
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