The impact of Taylor Swift being on the NFL bleachers
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Nora Princiotti, a staff writer at The Ringer and a Swiftie, about Taylor Swift's cultural impact on the NFL.
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The Paranoid Style blends rock with literary flair with 'The Interrogator'
The Washington D.C.-based band is led by Elizabeth Nelson, who is also a published music critic. It shows — the music is packed with wordplay, jokes and an undercurrent of serious dread.
Can Thom Yorke escape his own voice?
The second album from Radiohead offshoot The Smile is very good. But can its singer ever transcend his role in his revolutionary other band?
Joni Mitchell has never performed at the Grammys — that's about to change
Joni Mitchell will sing at the event for the first time this Sunday. She has won nine Grammy Awards and could add to that total. Her live album Joni Mitchell in Newport is up for best folk album.
Tiny Desk Premiere: Katie Von Schleicher
With an eight-piece band, the singer-songwriter brings her wry charm to the Tiny Desk.
Her son was taken by Hamas. She threw him a concert in the hopes he could hear it
Alon Ohel was taken in the early hours of Oct. 7. He is a talented pianist, and his mother believes that music can keep them connected: "It's not the hearing — it's the vibe, it's the energy."
Frederica von Stade on being inducted into the Opera Hall of Fame
NPR's Scott Simon asks mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade about her career and commitment to arts education. She has been inducted into the Opera Hall of Fame.
An ancient Egyptian temple in New York inspires a Lebanese American musician
H. Sinno, former lead singer of the pioneering Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila, pairs their own history with that of the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur in their new opera.
The Grammy's newest categories acknowledge a boom for African music and modern jazz
Two of the new Grammy categories reflect trends that are booming among musicians and the industry.
Remembering Peter Schickele, the satirical composer behind P.D.Q. Bach
Claiming to be a musicologist, the composer and arranger performed premieres of "newly unearthed" works by the nonexistent Bach. Schickele died Jan. 16. Originally broadcast in 1985.