| "Off the Beat" (Ralph Ellison) | Summer 2001 |
| "Why Randy Newman's Best Work Is Hard to Like" | Oct. 23, 2024 |
| "Bruce Springsteen's Misguided Homage" | November 2022 |
| "Bob Dylan Reveals Himself Through 66 Songs" | October 2022 |
| "Chameleon with a Toupee" (Bobby Darin) | January-February 2005 |
| "Wynton's Blues" | March 2003 |
| "Persian Miniatures" (Marjane Satrapi) | October-November 2004 |
| "Not for Laughs" (Percy Crosby) | March-April 2011 |
| "Condition Critical," | January-February 2009 |
| "Appetite for Fear," | January-February 2008 |
| "Are You a Certified Pop Genius" | February 6, 2017 |
| "Daring, Delusion and Dilettantism" | December 14, 2015 |
| "Ted Hearne's Political Soundscapes" | October 16, 2018 |
| "He Did It All" (Sammy Davis, Jr.) | November 23, 2003 |
| "Pete Seeger's Last War" | October 2004 |
| "Who's Got the Blues?" | September/October 2003 |
| "The Parody Racket" | September 27, 2014 |
| "Drawing Orphans" (Roz Chast’s graphic memoir) | July 20, 2014 |
| "Remember Beauty" (Maria Schneider) | May 26, 2014 |
| "Seldom Never On" (George Jones) | June 4, 2013 |
| "Without Category" (John Hollenbeck) | April 8, 2013 |
| "Principia Electronica" (Electronic Dance Music) | December 7, 2012 |
| "Imperfect Pitch" (Autotune) | December 7, 2012 |
| "Billboard Goddesses" | April 20, 2012 |
| "How to Win Friends and Influence People...with Chaucer" | January 9, 2012 |
| "Oohs and Aahs" | November 9, 2011 |
| "A Spell Deferred" (Nina Simone) | August 18, 2011 |
| "La Vie en Punk" (Edith Piaf) | July 21, 2011 |
| "The Afterplace" (Paul Simon) | June 9, 2011 |
| "The Wee Small Facts" (Frank Sinatra) | December 23, 2010 |
| "Memphis on Broadway" | September 2, 2010 |
| "End the Bequine" (Artie Shaw) | June 4, 2010 |
| "Triumph of the Gypsies" (Django Reinhardt) | April 21, 2010 |
| "Pretending" (Guitar Hero and Rock Band) | Dec. 2, 2009 |
| "Music in the Meltdown" | June 3, 2009 |
| "Keys to the Kingdom" (Michel Petrucciani) | March 18, 2009 |
| Pop Women" (Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and Lucinda Williams) | Feb. 4, 2009 |
| "Get Back" (John Lennon) | October 22, 2008 |
| "Breakout" (Alejandro Escovedo) | August 13, 2008 |
| "I Me Mine" (Open-Source Remixing) | March 12, 2008 |
| "The Sound of One Hand Composing" (Philip Glass) | January 30, 2008 |
| "They Paved Paradise" (Joni Mitchell) | November 5, 2007 |
| "Stolen Moments" (Abbey Lincoln and Mark Murphy) | September 10, 2007 |
| "Stolen Moments" (Abbey Lincoln and Mark Murphy) | September 10, 2007 |
| "TzadDik" (John Zorn) | June 8, 2007 |
| "Songbook Jam" (Mos Def) | March 19, 2007 |
| "Ye Olde Rocker" (Sting) | January 29, 2007 |
| "Heroine" (Anita O'Day) | December 25, 2006 |
| "The Lonesome Road" (Susannah McCorkle) | October 16, 2006 |
| "The Music of Starbucks" | August 7, 2006 |
| "The Producers" (Rick Rubin and Kanye West) | May 29, 2006 |
| "Instant Gratification: What MySpace Did to Music" | March 6, 2006 |
| "McCartney III" | December 26, 2005 |
| "Jumble Jumble" (White Stripes) | July 25, 2005 |
| "Heart Music" (Fred Hersch and Walt Whitman) | May 16, 2005 |
| "A Nice Young Man" (Josh Groban) | March 7, 2005 |
| "Unchained Heart" (Ray Charles) | December 13, 2004 |
| "God Only Knows" (Brian Wilson's Smile) | October 25, 2004 |
| "The Blogging of American Pop" | September 6, 2004 |
| "Where Has 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone' Gone?" | June 28, 2004 |
| "The iPod Blues" | March 29, 2004 |
| "The Body Eclectic" | Feb. 9, 2004 |
| "Tramps Like Who?" (Bruce Springsteen) | December 15, 2003 |
| "This Year's Model" (Elvis Costello) | October 6, 2003 |
| ""Ain't No Mountain" (Motown) | September 1, 2003 |
| "Authenticity Blues" (Alan Lomax) | June 16, 2002 |
| "The Royal Blues" (Dinah Washington) | June 23, 2005 |
| "Hustling Elvis" (Col. Tom Parker) | Oct. 9, 2003 |
| "Comics for Grown-Ups" (Daniel Clowes and Joe Sacco) | Aug. 14, 2003 |
| "He Took Manhattan" (Richard Rodgers) | Aug. 15, 2002 |
| "The Spirit of the Spirit" (Will Eisner) | June 20, 2001 |
| "Not Quite All That Jazz" (Ken Burns' Jazz) | Feb. 8, 2001 |
| "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (Harry Partch) | July 20, 2000 |
| "A Survey on Our Recent Survey" | June 26, 2021 |
| "Folk Hero" (Woody Guthrie) | March 29, 2004 |
| "Birthday of the Cool" (Benny Waters) | Mar. 11, 1996 |
| "McCartney, With and Without Lennon" | Nov. 6, 2021 |
| "Lighting Out for the Territories with Ornette Coleman" | May 29, 2020 |
| "Beethoven Was the Johnny Rotten of His Day" | Nov. 27, 2019 |
| "A New Life of Bebop Legend Dexter Gordon, Written by His Wife" | Nov. 28, 2018 |
| "In a Bowie Oral History, a Glimpse of How Others Saw the Faker" | December 1, 2017 |
| "The Sun King" (Sam Phillips) | December 6, 2015 |
| "Bebop" (Charlie Parker) | Dec. 6, 2013 |
| "'80s Pop" (Cyndi Lauper) | Nov. 30, 2012 |
| "Paul Nelson: Bad Boy Rock Critic" | Dec. 23, 2011 |
| "Stormy Weather" (Ethel Waters) | Feb. 27, 2011 |
| "God Gets Graphic" (Robert Crumb's "Genesis") | Oct. 25, 2009 |
| "Blues Capitalist" (W. C. Handy) | May 10, 2009 |
| "Music Lessons" (John Adams) | Oct. 26, 2008 |
| "Jazz Man" (Nathaniel Mackey) | Feb. 24, 2008 |
| "Stars and Strips | Dec. 3, 2006 |
| "Art Spiegelman Without the Towers" | Sept. 12, 2004 |
| "The Life and Death of Cool" (Chet Baker) | June 30, 2002 |
| "Jerry's Kids" | Jan. 17, 1999 |
| "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (James Cagney) | Dec. 7, 1997 |
| "Giant Steps" (Fred Hersch) | Jan. 31, 2010 |
| "His Mad World" (Will Elder) | Dec. 28, 2008 |
| "Queer As Folk" | Aug. 18, 2002 |
| "Things Are What They Used to Be" | Dec. 31, 2000 |
| "When Wrestling Was Noir" | Jan. 2, 2000 |
| "Rhapsody in Black and White" (Herbie Hancock and George Gershwin) | Oct. 25, 1998 |
| "A Song That Changed Music Forever" | Aug. 8, 2020 |
| "Forever Young? In Some Ways, Yes" (Bob Dylan) | May 23, 2011 |
| "The Toys Are Us" | June 19, 2010 |
| "Exploring the Universe, One B-Movie at a Time" (Star Trek) | May 10, 2009 |
| "Tenor of the Times" | Sept. 8, 2007 |
| "We Are a Camera" | Oct. 15, 2006 |
| "Guns and Poses" | Mar. 11, 2005 |
| "Those Glorious Pre-Détente Days" | Sept. 26, 1998 |
| "Dr. Funky Butt and Me: My Friendship with the Real Donald Shirley" | March 10, 2019 |
| "His Kind of River" | March 22, 2009 |
| "In a Famous Brother's Shadow" | June 6, 1999 |
| "Jazz Is Not What They're Famous For" | June 28, 1998 |
| "Look, No Hands" (Conlon Nancarrow) | Summer 1998 |
| "The Parsonage" | April 2023 |
| "How Christianity Created Rock and Roll" | June 20, 2018 |
| "Waking the Dead" | Sept. 8, 2005 |
| "Bound for Glory," | May 2001 |
| "Billy and the Duke" | May 1999 |
| "The King of Croon" (Bing Crosby) | Mar. 6, 2001 |
| "Something to Live For" | June 23, 1992 |