NoCap Hip-Hop/Rap > “When you listen to me, you can hear my pain,” says NoCap. “My music doesn’t sound like anybody else’s. I don’t ever want to be in a box. I’m creating my own wave. I’m hoping to change the game forever.”

Who is Jordana Nye? And what is her signature sound? It depends on when you ask. The 24-year-old, Maryland-raised songwriter arrived on the music scene with 2020's Classical Notions of Happiness, an album of lo-fi pop and hushed folk songs recorded in her Maryland & Kansas bedrooms. She'd be back by the end of that …

Born in Nashville, TN, Teddy and The Rough Riders have created a unique, genre bending version of Country Rock. Songs focus on close-harmony influences, soaring pedal steel, and grooving rhythms, modernizing the sounds of Little Feat, The Band, or Flying Burrito Bros, and always tending towards Country artists like The Louvin Bros, Buck Owens, and …

Song Confessional’s mission is to enable today’s top songwriters to create new songs inspired by everyday people’s experiences. Song Confessional collects recordings of people telling their own stories and then gives these recordings to songwriters who transform them into new original songs. Many of them are featured on our NPR podcast, Song Confessional. Started by …