First Listen: Hanson, 'String Theory'
Even in a studio, backed by a symphony orchestra as they survey their long career in pop music, these guys know how to work a room.
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Mona Haydar Breaks The Mold For Muslim Rap: 'You Just Have To Do You'
Poet-turned-rapper Mona Haydar explores the beauty and drawbacks of her religion on her latest EP Barbarican.
After Royal Wedding Spotlight, The Kingdom Choir Releases Debut Album
Their performance at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle catapulted The Kingdom Choir into the international spotlight. Now, they're out with their debut album Stand By Me.
For Her 'SNL' Debut, Maggie Rogers Performs 'Light On' And 'Fallingwater'
Just two years after her breakout single turned her from college student to professional, the down-to-earth singer seemed calm and confident on the Studio 8H stage.
Thom Yorke On Scoring The New 'Suspiria'
"Horror music can fall into a trap of trying to be dark for the sake of it," the Radiohead frontman says. "There's lots of different ways to make something terrifying."
Roy Hargrove, Grammy-Winning Jazz Trumpeter, Dies At 49
Hargrove first emerged in the late 1980s, at a cultural moment when his precocity and poise amounted to a form of currency in jazz, quickly earning the approval of the genre's elders.
On Barbra Streisand's Latest, The Walls Do Talk — To The President
Streisand speaks with Scott Simon about crafting her new album, Walls, as a reaction to the Trump administration.
Flasher's Deeply Bizarre New Video Stares Into The Internet's Gaping Maw
The D.C. post-punk band's brilliant new video for "Material" spoofs YouTube, but the jokes run far deeper — and weirder — than that.
Across the Blue Ridge #150 - Classic Songs and Tunes, New Recordings
This week's show ranges across the southern mountains with some truly wonderful fiddle tunes and songs. We start with the late North Carolina fiddler Jim Shumate, the first fiddler with Flatt
'I Love Men Very Much, But...': Rosanne Cash On Telling Women's Stories
One of America's great storytellers explains the urgent need she felt to tell female stories on her latest album, She Remembers Everything.