Two new operas focus on the Black female experience
Two short operas that got their premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. feature Black female protagonists.
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The Tiny Desk Contest is back for 2025
The Tiny Desk Contest is NPR Music's annual search for the next great undiscovered artist.
Machel Montano: Tiny Desk Concert
Stretch and loosen up before pushing play on this one, because there is no sitting still when soca fills the room.
Ringo Starr has a new country album. Is it any good?
NPR"s Scott Detrow speaks with Marcus Dowling, country music reporter for The Tennessean about Ringo Starr's new country music album, 'Look Up.'
Starflyer 59 reimagines three decades of music as lullabies
Starflyer 59's Déjame Dormir strips away layers of distortion and feedback for something soft and sleepy.
Sam Moore, who sang 'Soul Man' in Sam & Dave duo, dies at 89
Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave, died Friday morning in Coral Gables, Florida, due to complications while recovering from surgery, his publicist said.
'Fresh Air' speaks with 3 people depicted in the Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown'
In 2008, Suze Rotolo reflected on being Dylan's girlfriend and muse. Folk singer Joan Baez spoke to Terry Gross in 1987. In 1998, Al Kooper looked back on his time as a session musician with Dylan.
Unpacking Bad Bunny's personal and political 'DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS'
Time and time again Bad Bunny has proven that he's strongest creatively when he anchors himself to the island and if DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS is to be believed, home is where he's insistent on staying.
Bad Bunny's new album is being called his most Puerto Rican and political yet
No matter how famous he gets, the focus of Bad Bunny's music always comes back to his home of Puerto Rico. And his new record is being called his most Puerto Rican and most political album yet.
With the holidays over, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga and more stars flood the pop charts
Now that most Christmas songs and albums have been packed away into the proverbial attic, the pop landscape of the new year is coming into focus.