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.

  • The O'Farrill Family Band, In-Studio

    Jan 26, 2026
    Arturo O’Farrill may be best known as the longtime leader of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, but he’s done so much else, as a pianist, bandleader, and educator. He’s the son of the Lat...
  • #4952, Neo-Classical

    Jan 26, 2026
    Listen to “post-classical” or “neo-classical” works from Swedish composer Per Störby Jutbring, German composer and pianist Max Richter, and Polish pianist and composer Hania Rani.
  • #5099, A Tribute to Ralph Towner

    Jan 22, 2026
    Guitarist, pianist, & composer Ralph Towner was a co-founder of the chamber-folk group Oregon and an original member of the Paul Winter Consort. We offer this tribute to his work. 
  • #5098, With Molly Joyce: "State Change"

    Jan 21, 2026
    Composer and performer Molly Joyce takes us on a journey through her 2025 record 'State Change', for voice and adaptive technology, which uses her own surgical records as musical lyrics.
  • #5097, New Sounds, Ancient Words, Part 2

    Jan 15, 2026
    Hear music drawn from the Epic of Sunjata of the Mandé people in West Africa; the epic of Manas of the Kyrgyz people; and music based on ancient Norse Edda and Icelandic Rimur.
  • #5096, New Sounds, Ancient Words, Part 1

    Jan 14, 2026
    Hear some of the most ancient of stories: The Epic of Gilgamesh; The Tale of the Heike (Japan); Anglo-Saxon Beowulf; and the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata -all set to contemporary music.