Cyrena Touros

It's not just Olivia Rodrigo – the angry teenage girl is fueling popular music

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Olivia Rodrigo topped the Billboard charts in 2021. Her success is part of a larger trend of young women and people of color leading a resurgence of angry pop-punk.

You thought it wasn't possible: these songs make cleaning the bathroom even more fun

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As we enter the fall season, it doesn't hurt to spruce up and start afresh with a new playlist. Here are recommendations for three songs to play while dance-cleaning the bathroom.

Rodrigo Amarante finished writing and recording his latest album, <em>Drama</em>, at his home studio in LA during the pandemic. He says his writing table is separated from the rest of his studio, a sacred space where no machines are allowed, just pen and paper. When he's ready to commit to the words, he records them using a typewriter.

Rodrigo Amarante And His Great Musical Tantrum

Ailsa Chang

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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to musician Rodrigo Amarante about his second solo album, Drama, which he says was inspired by a personal reckoning with his own understanding of manhood.

"I feel like music is just a facet of my life, like it doesn't take hierarchical dominance over the people that I love and it never will," Lucy Dacus says. Her third album, <em>Home Video</em>, depicts memories and relationships from her years growing up in Richmond, Va.

Lucy Dacus Is Her Own Unreliable Narrator

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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Richmond, Va., songwriter Lucy Dacus about the childhood memories — real and imagined — that populate her latest album, Home Video.

When recording her latest album <em>Color Theory</em>, Sophie Allison used everything from floppy disk samples, to drum machines, to bubble sound effects to create the sound she wanted.

Soccer Mommy On 'Color Theory': 'I Want To Keep Growing Until I Hit The Ceiling'

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Ahead of the release of her new album Color Theory, Soccer Mommy's Sophie Allison spoke with NPR's Audie Cornish about her songwriting process, her '90s inspirations and her career ambitions.

Pete Townshend originally wrote the songs on The Who's new album for Roger Daltrey as a solo artist. "I wrote them for Roger because I knew that Roger would sing them best," he says.

Pete Townshend On Creativity, 'The Age Of Anxiety' And The Who's New Record

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Townshend talks about his debut novel, how it relates to The Who's rock opera, Tommy, and what he'd say now to his younger self – the one who wrote the lyric "I hope I die before I get old."