Music

Little Moon: Tiny Desk Concert

Bob Boilen

2023's Tiny Desk Contest unique, winning band performs a range of emotional and creative songs.
Health

'All Wigged Out' is about fighting cancer with humor and humanity

Barry Gordemer

The movie follows partners in music and life as they battle through breast cancer — while holding onto their sense of the comically absurd
Flooded with online hate, the musician corook decided to keep swimming

Lennon Sherburne

Made famous on TikTok, "if i were a fish" is a silly, fun ode to self-acceptance and self-confidence from the musician corook.
Opinion: Life lessons from Tina Turner

Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon contemplates the emotional power of the song "What's Love Got To Do With It" following singer Tina Turner's death.
Arts & Culture

Five must-see Fringe shows to catch this closing weekend

Beth Accomando

San Diego International Fringe Festival is heading into its final weekend of shows and here are the shows to see.
What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

Marc Rivers

Aisha Harris

Stephen Thompson

Linda Holmes

Tilda Wilson

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: You're the Worst, 60 Songs that Explain the '90s, and Little Moon wins the Tiny Desk.
Arlo Parks' new album 'My Soft Machine' doesn't shy away from life's hard times

Lilly Quiroz

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with singer-songwriter Arlo Parks about the inspiration for her new album.
Arts & Culture

San Diego weekend arts events: A singing devil, books and Black theater

Julia Dixon Evans

This weekend in the arts: Sarina Dahlan's "Preset" book launch (and Filipino desserts) at UCSD; Black Arts Festival at The Old Globe; Singing with the Devil at The Shell; "Head Over Heels" at Diversionary Theatre; Poetry, Contrabass and Wendell Kling at The Athenaeum; Adam Deutsch and Manuel Paul López at The Book Catapult; and the North Park Music Fest.
Shirley Collins is an English folk song's bridge between now and then

Jonathan Williger

On Archangel Hill, memories of the English countryside, Collins' family and friends are embedded in each song, just out of reach for the listener but vivid as sunshine in her mind.
Wolf Eyes still mirrors and mutates reality

Lars Gotrich

Dreams in Splattered Lines refines the long-running noise band's approach to cinematic horror: still gross and grueling, but painted in thicker strokes of neon gloom.