-
It’s summertime! Celebrate the season of sun and sounds with live music from some of our favorite festivals around the world.
-
Saxophonist Joey Berkley lost his ability to play due to the muscular disorder focal dystonia, but experimental treatment has given him enough flexibility to record a comeback album titled A Suite Life.
-
Every album the rapper has released since 2000 has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) extends his streak. Also: Shaboozey returns to the top of the singles chart.
-
In 1969, Woodstock promised “three days of peace and music.” Decades later, Woodstock '99 brought different music and a very different vibe to central New York.
-
The vice president, an avid Beyoncé fan, received a rare clearance to use the superstar's music before delivering a speech at her campaign headquarters in Delaware.
-
Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops that was known for such hits as “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” has died at age 88.
-
A study in the journal "Scientific Reports" finds the melodies of popular songs have gotten simpler over time.
-
The singer-songwriter makes her long-awaited appearance at the Tiny Desk with a collection of light, breezy tracks.
-
The award for lifetime artistic achievements will also recognize jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval. The Apollo Theater will receive a special Honors as "an iconic American institution."
-
Bernice Johnson Reagon, a civil rights activist who co-founded The Freedom Singers and later started the African-American vocal ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, died Tuesday at the age of 81.
-
The songleader, civil rights activist and scholar died Tuesday at the age of 81.
-
So far, the group has entertained viewers with renditions of such hits as "Life is a Highway," "All Star," "What I Like About You," "Don't Stop Believin' " and "Reelin' in the Years," among other "dad jams."
-
Swift's The Tortured Poets Department has been the biggest album in the country for 12 consecutive weeks, the longest run atop that chart of her career.
-
The National Endowment for the Arts announced the newest recipients of the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship. The NEA describes it as the nation’s highest honor in jazz.
-
The country music star says she intends to check herself into rehab.
-
Fulton County Chief Judge Ural Glanville was taken off the YSL RICO case this week after his actions in an ex parte meeting were deemed damaging to public perception of the case.
-
A saxophonist of otherworldly gusto, two pianists of impulsive eloquence and a critic with a pen nearly as sharp as his ears are the latest selections for the the nation's highest honor for jazz.
-
Singer-songwriter Clairo became famous by making music in her bedroom and posting it online. Now with her third album, Charm, she's got a full band to back her up.
-
Pop singer Remi Wolf says the single "Cinderella" describes mood swings and a transient lifestyle at the time she wrote it. NPR's Leila Fadel asks Wolf about her sophomore album “Big Ideas.”
-
The New York-bred and Los Angeles- based pianist and multi-instrumentalist has been regarded as a young master in the jazz world.