New Sounds

Hand-picked music, genre free. 24/7 radio from New York City.

New Sounds is New York Public Radio’s home for the musically curious, since 1982. It’s a hub for discovering weird and wonderful music from artists, composers and traditional musicians. Follow us on YouTube and Instagram. Email us at hello@newsounds.org.

  • #5061, Islands

    Oct 14, 2025
    Hear the effect of islands in music by NYC-based composer Elori Saxl, Breton composer Yann Tiersen, and Los-Angeles based duo of synthesist Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer.
  • Meklit at the BRIC Jazz Festival

    Oct 17, 2025
    Meklit's Ethio-jazz storytelling blends jazz, pop, and soul with the echoes of Ethiopian pop. She plays as part of BRIC JazzFest on Oct. 17-18.
  • Sphinx Virtuosi at Carnegie Hall

    Oct 16, 2025
    The Sphinx Organization plays American works by cellist Quenton Blache, Brazilian-American composer and pianist Clarice Assad, Prokofiev and more at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 17.
  • #5059, With Cochemea

    Oct 8, 2025
    Sax player, composer, and arranger Cochemea blends the sounds of funk, jazz, and Indigenous North American music and more in his solo work. He and his band play live, in-studio.
  • Acadia: Yo-Yo Ma and the Wabanaki Play for the Dawn

    Oct 8, 2025
    The series opens with a window into the Yo-Yo universe, one where music and nature work together. Host Ana González guides us into Yo-Yo Ma’s mindset, connecting Bach to leaves, birds...