Music & Culture

The performances of this trailblazing transgender singer — once radically visible, now long hidden — have been likened to tornadoes. A new box set is a document of a career that never followed rules.

John Kolodij sketches a future past with rugged Americana smoked in tea leaves, sheer drones wrapped in muslin cloth. Watch a video for "Black Grasshopper."

The City Music singer will donate all proceeds from his new song to Baltimore's Believe In Music education program.

Hear a stunning new song from our 2016 Tiny Desk Contest winner, Gaelynn Lea.

The music of Sego is frenetic and immediate. In a new video for the band's song "Whatever Forever," the group considers complacency in the anesthetized frenzy of day-to-day living.

Fresh on the heels of winning the NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest, the seven-piece group wowed the Oregon festival crowd with a mix of funk, hip-hop, rock and jazz.

Sometimes simplicity and chaos can work perfectly together, as they do in this new song and video from Haley Heynderickx, about the struggle to find meaning in every day life.

The latest single from Porches' third album, The House, is anxiety you can dance to, painted with a throbbing '90s house beat and chirping vocal blips.