Celebrate International Guitar Month With These Guitar Greats
From "Johnny B. Goode" to "Voodoo Child" to "Stairway To Heaven," hear a playlist of some of World Cafe's favorite guitar solos and sounds.
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Basking In Sin: Some Initial Thoughts On Kendrick Lamar's 'DAMN.'
The NPR Music staff spent Friday morning listening to the rapper's new album. Here are eight reactions to what will likely go down as one of the best albums of 2017.
Watch The Coachella 2017 Live Webcast All Weekend Long
The music festival will be live-streamed across three channels, with sets from Kendrick Lamar, Radiohead, Lady Gaga, Banks, Lorde, The xx, D.R.A.M., Future, Bon Iver and more.
GoldLink On Go-Go And Making The Best Of A Bittersweet History
The D.C. rapper survived a rough upbringing and made it as a member of a hip-hop renaissance in and around the nation's capital. That, he says, is cause for both celebration and soul-searching.
Mac Benford and the old-time music boom
One outcome of the folk music boom of the 1950s and ‘60s was an increased interest in the music from which much pop and folk had sprung: old-time and bluegrass. While The Weavers, The Kingsto
The J. Geils Band's Greatest Hit Illustrates A Strange, Transitional Moment In Pop
The death this week of J. Geils Band co-founder and guitarist Jay Geils prompts a look back at the strange, between-worlds year of music in which the group cemented its legacy.
Hear Chris Stapleton's First Single From His Forthcoming Album
"Broken Halos" is the first taste of From A Room: Volume 1.
Nnenna Freelon On Piano Jazz
The internationally-hailed vocalist surprises host Marian McPartland with a lyric to her original tune "Threnody."
Gracie and Rachel Remind Us That We Are 'Only A Child,' Waiting To Grow
There's a terrific tension in the sound, an underpinning of mystery set against a baroque, but modern, pop foreground.
Songs We Love: Orgone, 'I Sold My Heart To The Junkman (Feat. Cyril Neville)'
A Los Angeles funk band and a New Orleans icon transform a jazz ballad turned girl-group number into an irresistibly boogieable groove — on a soul label out of suburban Ohio. Yeah, sure.