Celebrity influencers are promoting the pricey scans to catch disease early, but a doctor argues the U.S. should focus instead on reaching everyone with proven screenings and prevention strategies.
On Thursday morning, Mike Mills said that it would take "a comet" for R.E.M. to get back together. But on Thursday night, R.E.M. got back together to perform the band's unexpected 1991 hit at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
The one act opera, titled "Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier)," is billed as a dark comedy. The production reflects on an environmental and spiritual retribution around two events in Georgia history: The forced exile of black residents from Forsyth County in 1912, and the decades-later creation of Lake Lanier, a manmade recreational lake in reservoir that covers a large part of North Georgia, including a town at the center of the events in 1912 known as Oscarville.
The band broke up in 2011 and all four original members haven't played together since 2007. That changed Thursday night in New York City, where Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe took the stage during their induction ceremony. Mills spoke with GPB ahead of the gathering to talk about what the band's songs mean to its legacy.
For a seventh straight week, Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department rules the Billboard 200. On the singles chart, Eminem references both the Steve Miller Band and his own past glory.
Canon-making is a core part of rap fandom, the subject of endless barbershop parleys and message-board battles. But something curdles when the companies that control the music business enter the chat.
Donny Osmond shares Georgia memories and life lessons from his incredible 60 years in show business. He brings his Las Vegas show to Atlanta's Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on June 25.
A new documentary by the hip-hop historian and critic dream hampton, culled from her own never-before-seen footage of rap's golden age, illustrates the hard labor for women who love the music.
The name of the great contralto and civil rights icon now lives above the doors to the grand hall in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
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.
