After getting help with his addiction and while pausing for the pandemic, Langhorne Slim found songs — happy, sad, anxious, joyful — to be pouring out of him like deep breaths.
Jennifer Lopez's performance of "This Land Is Your Land" at last month's presidential inauguration ceremony has reignited conversations about the erasure of Native Americans in the iconic folk tune.
2020 was set to be a fruitful year for the artist, full of travel and music. In her contribution to Morning Edition's Song Project, she faces the reality of that loss and finds hope in starting over.
Haiti's influence on one of America's most musical cities is explored in a new audio documentary, Kanaval, hosted by Leyla McCalla and produced by WXPN.
Jazz Night visits the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, an evolving house of worship that has incorporated John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album as their chief liturgical text.
The electronic pop musician SOPHIE, known for her unique spin on underground dance music, died on Saturday after an accidental fall. She was 34 years old.
The singer says she was offered the honor by the Trump administration but was unable to accept, first because her husband was ill and then because the pandemic made traveling to the ceremony unsafe.
The political is personal for the nine-time Grammy winner. Watch him lead the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet through three songs from his Democracy! Suite.
The Westworld actor alleged that Brian Warner, better known as industrial-rock musician Marilyn Manson,was her abuser, naming himfor the first time in a statement posted to Instagram.
In a profile of the iconic 94-year-old singer for AARP The Magazine, Bennett's wife says he was diagnosed in 2016. While the disease progressed, he recorded a new album of duets with Lady Gaga.
Valentine's ghostly and circular guitar riff on the song "House of the Rising Sun" helped make The Animals' 1964 recording of the folk staple one of the most evocative versions ever recorded.
This January, NPR member stations share a mix of the most popular songs on their airwaves, including music from The Avalanches, Jade Bird, Madlib, Run the Jewels and more.
Cuomo says Weezer is always looking to try the opposite of whatever it just did. Case in point: the band's new orchestral record, made back to back with a metal album.