French music duo Air performs at NPR's Tiny Desk on Oct. 8, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Maansi Srivastava/NPR hide caption
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Artist Oklou performs at NPR's Tiny Desk on Oct. 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Maansi Srivastava/NPR hide caption
Sudan Archives' The BPM straddles house, techno, trap and R&B, but in the least binary ways possible. Yanran Xiong hide caption
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In the song "Family," users of the VR experience can move their hands in rhythm with the music to sew Björk's broken heart back together. PulseJet Studios hide caption
On the The Passionate Ones, his second album as Nourished by Time, Baltimore native Marcus Brown plumbs the ways that class and labor become inseparable from creativity. Lauren Davis hide caption
Each Disiniblud song vibrates with a sense of playfulness and otherworldly possibility, building up songs from tinkering, music box melodies into epic soundscapes, as if to suggest reality can become fantasy at any moment. hide caption
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Everything Is Temporary Aliyah Otchere/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Olly Alexander's Polari is an exploration of queer identity that includes songs like "Cupid's Bow." Richie Talboy/Interscope Records hide caption
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The cover of Call Me, Sylvester's seventh studio album. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Back cover photo of Sun Ra's LP Live At Praxis'84, 1984, Soundwave Limited Flickr hide caption
FKA twigs — the English singer, dancer and actor Tahliah Debrett Barnett — is out with a new album, Eusexua. Jordan Hemingway hide caption
Castle Rat's fantasy-themed heavy metal is featured on the 2024 edition of Viking's Choice. Courtney B Hall/Courtesy of the artist hide caption