NHPR Music News

The Hop Sessions from NHPR brings you the best of the Upper Valley's arts scene, featuring intimate concerts and conversations with world-class creators.

Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer. Start putting together your summer playlist.

The mischievous visionary offers a career-spanning set with nods to dogs, the stars and her late husband, Lou Reed.

Jack Antonoff explores marriage, grief and the current moment in Bleachers' latest album, everyone for ten minutes.

When John Cage composed an opera commemorating the American bicentennial audiences walked out. Now, it's being reinterpreted by new artists in a Detroit Opera production, as the nation turns 250.

Sally Baby’s Silver Dollars combines elements of early jazz, swing, New Orleans R+B, brass band, second line, soul, and more.

A California judge has given Kars4Kids 30 days to either take its ads off the air or update them to disclose its affiliations to a Jewish charity based in the Northeast.

The 1973 activist folk album "A Grain of Sand" is widely recognized as one of the first and most influential albums of Asian American music.

On three new albums — Iceman, Maid of Honour and Habibti — the streaming era's defining star doubles down on a strategy of abundance, no matter the creative cost.

In her recordings, RaiNao leans into reggaeton and electronic beats. Her Tiny Desk performance presents a different version of Puerto Rico's song spine, built on guiros, timbales and maracas.