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Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Babel or The Necessity of Violence, Sultana's Dream, La última copa/The Last Cup, and Brick.

Teens share photos or videos of themselves with guns and cash, sometimes calling out rivals, on social media. When posts go viral, fueled by "likes" and comments, the danger is hard to contain.

The artist's radically inventive new album produced with Justin Raisen plays like an apt distillation of what it's like to live right now.

David Bazan's multi-part memoirs have blurred memories of his adolescence, but with the goal of being honest and accountable. NPR Music critic Ann Powers sees connections between Pedro the Lion's Santa Cruz and Jane Schoenbrun’s new film, I Saw the TV Glow.

The Bronx rapper's acid tongue and unbothered stance made her one of hip-hop's hottest prospects. On her debut album, Y2K!, her snowballing hype may have exceeded the reach of her pen.

Performers are on strike against major video game companies, and AI is the sticking point. Here’s how game development has evolved since early animation.

It's been 25 years since Jon Stewart first took the host chair at The Daily Show. His run on the show would reshape late night comedy and the way Americans consume politics.

New albums by Don Toliver and LUCKI take opposite paths to the same calling, an understanding of rap as texture rather than text.

Staples has always lived in a few worlds: art-rap hero, hall-of-fame interviewee, and a homebody whose inner life is none of our business. On Dark Times, his worlds finally converge.

Haiti has been defined in the public imagination by struggle and turmoil. Now in its biggest year and first in Brooklyn, the BAYO festival looks to shift focus back toward the culture.