Tabla player Badal Roy, known for his cutting-edge jazz collaborations, dies at 82
The tabla player worked with trailblazing collaborators including Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman.
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Bronx-raised Cardi B offers to pay fire victims' burial costs
"I hope that not having to worry about the costs associated with burying their loved ones will help as they move forward and heal," the Grammy-winning rapper said.
New biography, 'The Hag,' examines the life of country music icon Merle Haggard
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Haggard's biographer Marc Eliot about his book: The Hag. Haggard spent his early years going from family tragedy to odd jobs to broken marriages to petty crime to prison.
'Wait Wait' for Jan. 15, 2022: With Not My Job guest Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves got her start in Austin, then left to conquer the world. She's about to do it all again on her Star-Crossed tour, but not before she answers our three questions about national anthems.
Molly Nilsson, 'Pompeii'
The Berlin-based goth-pop artist plumbs the tale of that ever-entwined couple buried in ash in Pompeii as a way into the concept of perpetual love.
Jenny Hval, 'Year of Love'
The Norwegian pop experimentalist trains her encompassing talent for shibboleth deconstruction towards a new "normcore institution" — her own marriage.
Cultural critic Terry Teachout is remembered as 'unafraid of being human in public'
Teachout has died at the age of 65. He wrote acclaimed biographies of such arts figures as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and George Balanchine.
Amaarae (feat. Kali Uchis, Moliy), 'SAD GIRLZ LUV MONEY (Vigro Deep Amapiano Remix)'
This latest remix of the 2020 track might be the Trojan Horse we need to introduce amapiano, a spacious form of deep house music, to America.
The Gershwin Prize for Popular Song is going to pop star Lionel Richie
Richie, responsible for a seemingly endless catalog of hits, will be awarded the songwriting prize this spring by the Library of Congress.
Anonymous customer buys 'the Pantera guitar' for young guitarist in Colorado
About the time the guitar was purchased, Fallon and his family had moved to Texas. Fallon didn't get the gift until about eight months later when he and the family came back to Colorado for a visit.