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"I'm sorry I'm shy," Florence Welch told the crowd of NPR family and friends gathered for her Tiny Desk performance. "If this was a big gig, I'd probably be climbing all over here and running around."

Social media platforms have the power to shut down voices and amplify what we see. But is that singular power perilous to democracy?

Robert Finley had given up on a professional music career – and then glaucoma took his eyesight. How a health crisis led to Finley's astounding rise as a critically acclaimed performer.

Jay Wellons reflects on his time as a pediatric neurosurgeon and the post Roe v. Wade landscape. Justin Chang reviews the Greek film Apples. Blackwell looks back on his life in music in The Islander.

Stephen Stills has finished his first solo album in 14 years, a project interrupted by tours with David Crosby, Graham Nash and Neil Young. They appear on the new Stills CD, Man Alive!, but Stills made sure the songs reflected his own, ever-shifting musical tastes.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen hears something special in the new album from the innovative neo-soul duo Gnarls Barkley. It reminds him of a different groundbreaking soul artist who died more than 40 years ago: Otis Redding.

By most accounts, Diabate is the world's greatest living player of the kora, a 21-string West African harp. Now, his new album finds the Malian master musician alone with the instrument — and defining the state of his art.

Kids' music blogger Stefan Shepherd weighs in on some of the new music for children that has been catching his ear. Shepherd reviews kids and family music "worth sharing" at Zooglobble.com.

Winter's Gulf Coast hometown wasn't big on the blues, but that didn't stop him from getting interested — especially once he met his idol B.B. King at a local club.

ChesnuTT recorded Landing on a Hundred, his first album in a decade, at the legendary Royal Studios in Memphis. But he says visiting a different historical site is what really set the record's tone.