It's that time again! Time to vote for your 10 favorite WNCW releases of 2025, and help us create the Top 100 for our end-of-the-year countdown airing Monday, 12/29 from 9am to 6pm, and again on Tuesday, 12/30, with different songs.Click through to see the list of albums we have featured this year and cast your votes.
New Releases
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Peak of the Week
Recent Podcasts on WNCW
Saturday, February 21, 2026 | The Foundation Performing Arts Center | Spindale, NC
NPR Song of the Day
Studio B Videos on YouTube
NPR News
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A dramatic drop in mortality for youngsters under age 5 has been one of the great accomplishments in global health. But estimates suggest that in 2025 child deaths will go up.
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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 that President Trump's firings of Democratic members of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Board were lawful.
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The fines were due to the platform's misleading use of blue check marks to identify verified users and a lack of transparency over ads and data access for researchers.
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The Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along played to sold out crowds on Broadway during its 2023-2024 run. That show was filmed, and now available to watch on the big screen.
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A research scientist is on the run from hitmen in this thrilling film. Set in 1977 Brazil, The Secret Agent captures the daily realities and surreal absurdities of life in an authoritarian state.
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The Trump administration has set forth a national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America's dominance in the Western Hemisphere.