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We asked 10 members of our Tiny Desk team to pick a favorite concert of the year.

The Canadian journalist peels back the curtain on his high-energy, yet deeply researched, interview style.

NPR Music's pop critic says her favorite albums of this tumultuous year demonstrated the value of embracing fragility and vulnerability.

When it comes to music, December is overflowing with gifts, but we aren't quite done with the presents. This time, the NPR Music team is giving ... to each other! On this episode of <em>All Songs Considered</em>, our hosts, writers and editors get into a sort of chain-letter, Secret Santa-type gift exchange. The rules were simple: Pick a song from 2024 specifically for one of your colleagues, who then has to pick a song for someone else, and so on, until the gift train comes full circle. <br><br>What songs did we pick? How well do we really know each other's taste? You'll have to listen to hear the surprise, just like we did.

2024's breakout star reimagines her biggest hits from her Grammy-nominated album<strong> </strong><em>Short n' Sweet</em>, while sharing stories of how the tracks came to life.

For NPR Music's hip-hop and R&B editor, no list could capture an accurate picture of the year, yet there's still value in calling out the albums that felt unignorable.

For their latest album, the Australian rock band took a looser and more collaborative approach to songwriting.

On this special holiday episode, we gather around the fire for a special listen to pianist George Burton's burning Christmas record, <em>The Yule Log</em>. We'll hear some favorites and some deep, deep Christmas cuts.

So many of 2024's big music stories were about freshly minted stars reaping the benefits of the long game.

There's no neat, bow-tied trend to explain this year in Latin music because maybe, more than ever before, Latin music was allowed to be just music.

Hear a live performance from this indie rock quintet hailing from Lafayette, La.

'Tis the season for a handful of familiar Christmas songs to monopolize the top spots on the <em>Billboard</em> pop chart. But a few newer songs are making a play to join the annual holiday jukebox.