Hear Chuck Berry's Posthumous Single, 'Big Boys'
The song is taken from Berry's first record in 38 years, CHUCK, due out on June 16.
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20 Years Ago, Biopic Helped Give Pop Star Selena Life Beyond Her Tragic Death
In the 1990s, Tejano music singer Selena Quintanilla Perez made a rare crossover to mainstream American audiences. The movie Selena debuted two years after her murder.
South X Lullaby: DakhaBrakha
Watch the utterly unique Ukranian band play a quiet, contemplative lullaby that reminds us that we have "time to laugh and cry, time to live and die."
Bittersweet Little Rock And Roller
Chuck Berry's life story includes serious mistreatment of women, but fully reckoning with his legacy means also acknowledging the women and girls who made his groundbreaking rock and roll possible.
Strand Of Oaks On World Cafe
The never-reticent Timothy Showalter discusses how his latest album, Hard Love, deals with the pull between domesticity and the call of the wild.
On 'Fantasies,' Mozart and Schumann Shimmer In The Shadows
Piotr Anderszewski is one of the most revered pianists today, and one of the most delightfully unpredictable. His new album links composers with a direct line from brainstorm to masterpiece.
Judy Roberts On Piano Jazz
One of Chicago's best-loved musicians joined Marian McPartland in front of a live audience at WAMC in 2003.
Metropolis: 3/18/17
KCRW's Jason Bentley spins a two-hour EDM mix featuring music from Jacques Greene, Lee Foss and Soulwax.
Why SXSW Matters: The Best Of What We Saw, 2017
We go to SXSW in order to find music we're unlikely to see in our own backyard, find something thrilling, then shout out our fervent support. In this episode, we do exactly that.
Chuck Berry Taught Me How To Be An American
For the author, the child of an immigrant, the discovery of Berry's songs — two decades after they were recorded — decoded the meaning of American youth culture.