Flea was on NPR's Fresh Air to talk with host Terry Gross about his debut solo album, Honora, his childhood, early musical influences, and more. "If one is willing to feel the pain and suffering of being a human being, you're gonna grow," he says. "I'm grateful for growth, and I'm grateful for humility, and I'm grateful for being a student." You can hear their conversation here.

"This record really was a next chapter for me in my life and as an artist, this time in my life that I thought was an ending suddenly was like, oh my God, it's only just beginning," Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, tells Song Exploder host Hrishikesh Hirway on the show's latest episode, about their track "Alibi," from the album The Past Is Still Alive, a live performance of which can also be heard on the new recording Live Forever. "Especially when this song came out and the way that people responded to it, it felt immediately different than any other time in my career. It just felt like, whoa, I'm not giving up on this." You can hear the episode here.

Molly Tuttle is on the latest episode of the American Songwriter show Off the Record. She talks with host and American Songwriter Editor-in-Chief Lisa Konickito about her latest album, the twice GRAMMY-nominated So Long Little Miss Sunshine, on which, Konickito says, Tuttle "explores country, rock, and pop; all the while, she's still the amazing guitar player that we know and love." You can watch their conversation here.

"I'm speaking with the Queen of Americana ... a singer who summons the truth of every song that she touches," BBC Radio 4 Front Row presenter Kate Molleson says of her guest Emmylou Harris. "She brought together the worlds of folk, rock and country music, and she took harmony singing to new heights." Harris spoke with Molleson about her life and career ahead of her European Farewell Tour, which begins in Glasgow and Dublin this weekend. You can hear the episode here. Harris also spoke with the Guardian's Fiona Sturges about her career in music and why she won't be winding it down anytime soon. "I don’t really know what winding down is,” Harris says. “I think when you’re an artist, you don’t ever really retire. As I tell my friends, I don’t know what I’m doing, but I sure am doing a lot of it.” 

"A polymathic, pioneering multimedia artist" is how Flo Dill describes Laurie Anderson, her guest on the latest episode of her NTS podcast Digging with Flo. Anderson joins Dill in the greenhouse for a bit of gardening and a chat. You can watch and hear it here.

Composer Donnacha Dennehy was on WNYC's New Sounds to talk with host John Schaefer about his piece Land of Winter. Its recording, which Schaefer includes on his Top Ten for the year, is up for two GRAMMY Awards: Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Dennehy and Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for Alarm Will Sound and conductor Alan Pierson. You can hear the episode here.

Robert Plant is on the latest episode of NPR's World Cafe to talk with host Raina Douris about his new band, Saving Grace, and their new album, Saving Grace. He and the band also perform three songs from the album live: "It's a Beautiful Day Today," "As I Roved Out," and "Everybody's Song." You can hear it here.

“One might say being an artist who represents mastery and excellence of a time honored genre and simultaneously having an adventurous spirit comes naturally to this week's guest," says Sheroes host Carmel Holt. "Molly Tuttle's journey as a musician has been nothing short of breathtaking.” You can hear their conversation, about Tuttle's Grammy-nominated new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, and more, here.

“If you've seen One Battle After Another, you will know that the score is so important to the film," Soundtracking host Edith Bowman says ahead of her conversation with the score's composer, Jonny Greenwood. "And it starts with score. You're in it because of that. There's so many textures and layers and wonderful motifs and themes throughout the entire score. I think it's definitely one of my favorite Jonny Greenwood scores. And it feels like it's almost everything that he's previously done with Paul Thomas Anderson has led to this particular score. It's so good … Incredible.” You can hear their conversation here.

"I have seen this woman perform live a number of times, and one of the great thrills of watching her has been beholding what she has discovered, what she has unearthed in music that other artists wrote," Wesley Morris says of Cécile McLorin Salvant, his guest on the New York Times' Cannonball. "Their songs become hers, and to a listener, they mean something deeper than the original and often sound completely new." The episode is focused on the art of the cover song—a phrase Salvant doesn't use—and opens with a list of Morris's all-time favorites, on which he includes Salvant's take on Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights," from her 2022 Nonesuch debut album, Ghost Song. Hear the episode here.

"No other group in jazz, past or present, sounds quite like Mary Halvorson’s Amaryllis," WRTI's The Late Set says of its guest and her band. "A sextet that places her guitar within a shifting matrix—alongside trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, bass, and drums—it’s a chamber ensemble with a dynamic core, forever in a state of flux." Halvorson spoke with Josh Jackson, The Late Set co-host with Nate Chinen, about the band—whose new album, About Ghosts, is on the show's short list for Album of the Year—ahead of a recent concert at Solar Myth in Philadelphia. You can hear it here.

Composer Thomas Adès—whose GRAMMY-winning Dante, performed by LA Phil and Gustavo Dudamel, was released on Nonesuch in 2023—is on BBC Radio 4's This Cultural Life to discuss his life and work with host John Wilson, who calls his guest "one of the most revered and prolific British classical musicians." They talk about the influence of Adès's art historian mother, an expert in surrealism, and grandmother, who introduced him to the work of T.S. Eliot; getting to the semi-finals of the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year; and going regularly to the English National Opera. You can hear their conversation here.