Music & Culture

John Carpenter's fantastically phantasmagorical theme is transformed by the Nine Inch Nails members.

Watch the Slingshot band's intimate performance of its new single, live in WFUV's New York studios.

The video for "Here Comes The Feeling" is filled with images and sounds of "taped" images winding and looping, mirroring a transformative time in the life of frontman Pete Lawrie-Winfield.

Hear a performance and interview with the NPR Slingshot band, and watch the trio perform "Thorns," the third single from its upcoming debut album.

Deacon's music for the documentary Rat Film is a pulsing electronic soundscape made, in part, by rats themselves. He explains how in this track-by-track breakdown of the score.

Illustrator Sayori Wada gives us a visual guide through her experience at Rock In Japan, one of the country's largest music festivals.

Every sound on A Deeper Understanding is deliberate, and every dramatic build is brilliant. Hear three live versions of songs from the new album, recorded at the World Cafe studios in Philadelphia.

Watch the son of The Beatles' George Harrison perform on KCRW during his first live radio appearance in the U.S.

The pianist and composer shares his insights on growing up in apartheid-era South Africa and what freedom means to him today.

Listen to a playlist of music to keep the black cats away this Friday the 13th.