Your one-stop guide to the year in arts and culture, from binge-worthy shows to hundreds of books recommended by NPR staff and a playlist of the 124 best songs of 2024.
Music often takes on a deeper meaning over the holidays as we reflect on our lives before a new year begins. Following in the footsteps of NPR’s annual best music lists, members of GPB’s News team are sharing the songs, albums and concerts that mattered in 2024.
This year's unmissable jazz releases came in two flavors: breakthrough releases by driven young newcomers, and a heap of unearthed treasures from the vault.
This year's unmissable jazz releases came in two flavors: breakthrough releases by driven young newcomers, and a heap of unearthed treasures from the vault.
You might recognize the performer's unmistakable voice from the Netflix series Ripley, the HBO series The White Lotus or the Pixar animated feature Luca. In Italy, she's a legend.
Shawn Carter, known professionally as Jay-Z, was added as a defendant on Sunday in a lawsuit first filed in October. The anonymous accuser said the assault happened at an MTV music awards after-party.
Swift has made over $2 billion in ticket sales and spent over 25 hours singing the 10-minute version of "All Too Well" since March 2023. Here's a look at the historic tour and what might come next.
Students packed a theater at SCAD Saturday to watch the heady Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown as hundreds more waited outside for a glimpse of its star, Timothée Chalamet.
Batiste re-imagines Beethoven compositions in his new album. It's "not that the original wasn't great and transcendent..." he says. "But there's also a lot of things since then that have happened."
Since last November, 12 lawsuits have been filed against Sean 'Diddy' Combs for sexual and physical assault. Here's who is officially involved in the allegations.
A packed house honored the Grateful Dead, director Francis Ford Coppola, jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt. The venerable Harlem theater The Apollo also was recognized.
Olivier Latry is Notre Dame Cathedral's longest-serving organist. Just days before the church's gala reopening, after the destructive fire in 2019, he talks about the refurbished instrument — it holds 8,000 pipes — and its role in the church.
A week after Kendrick Lamar's new album, GNX, was surprise released, it proved to be a chart phenomenon, debuting at No. 1 on the album chart and claiming the Top 5 spots on the singles chart.
