Tagged: podcast, music ed tech talk, top ten, 10ĭavid rejoins the show to talk about how we use Craft, an extremely versatile, elegant, and powerful app for the web, iOS, and macOS devices. Smart Speakers and Their Assistants, with Dr.technically released late December 29, but it was downloaded so much this year, I'll allow it. Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps, with Paul Kafasis.Stop! You're Both Right!, with Alex Shapiro The Prime Directive, with Will Kuhn and Ethan Hein.Dorico for iPad, with Daniel Spreadbury.Thanks to all of the awesome guests who joined the show this year! Or, of course, you could subscribe to the show! (Don't forget to leave me that sweet 5 star review if you are on Apple Podcasts, it really does help!)Īpple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS A few of them will require you to scroll down for the playback controls. Note: everyone uses different podcast players, so I have linked to the show notes/blog posts that accompany many of these episodes. Today, I thought I would share the most popular podcast episodes I published. Yesterday, I posted my top 10 blog posts written in 2021. _Stream NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2021: Spotify _/_ Apple Music _/_ Tidal _/_ Amazon Music _/_ YouTube Music (As a bonus, you can find our list of the 100 Best Songs of 2021 here.) You'll find something fortifying to build you up for the road ahead. Even when slight they are composed, with a sense of purpose. Many of these albums are stacked with great songs, but these aren't snacks. There's plenty of fun, but little escapism. Everywhere on this list you'll find the thrill of artistic revelation, musicians finding themselves, willing something new into reality. Our list of the year's 50 best is topped by an album that was unmatched in concept, songwriting or performance, but it had so much good company. So maybe that's why, when we sat down together to discuss which albums we loved the most over the course of 2021, NPR Music's staff and contributors found ourselves drawn to albums by artists making breakthroughs, moving forward with clarity, without balking at the obstacles falling in their way. If the year presently coming to a close was a dance, it'd be a hesitant shuffle, tentative steps toward - or heyyyy, maybe away from? - an uncertain future. NPR Music's 50 Best Albums of 2021, Ranked : NPR Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra.Some of my favorites I have already heard are, in no particular order. I always learn about some good new music listening through this list every year. NPR has started doing this, which saves me some time, but I sort of miss the ritual.Īnyway, here are links to their streaming playlists. For a while, I had a holiday tradition of taking "best albums of the year" posts on the web, and making Apple Music playlists out of them.