Maggie Rogers On World Cafe
The college kid who stunned Pharrell Williams with her breakout single joins World Cafe for a live performance and interview.
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The MP3 Is Officially Dead, According To Its Creators
The MP3 upended the way the world receives and hears music, for better and for worse. Now it's dead.
'Rolling Stone' Founder Jann Wenner On 50 Years Of Rock And Roll History
When Wenner started Rolling Stone, he says, other publications weren't taking rock and roll seriously. Since then, the magazine has documented five decades of music, politics and culture.
In The Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Teens Speak Up By Singing Out
The group is celebrating its 25th anniversary by commissioning new pieces of contemporary classical music — and pushing the composers who write for the ensemble to broaden their own points of view.
Danny Brown And 'Silicon Valley' Go Together Like An Awkward First Date
"Kool Aid," a new song from the Detroit MC, will appear on the HBO show's hip-hop-heavy soundtrack.
Rhiannon Giddens Speaks For The Silenced
Giddens' Freedom Highway is an exploration of African-American experiences accompanied by the banjo, with "a sound, that deepness, that quality is what people associated with American music."
Laura Marling, 'Soothing' (Live)
The English singer-songwriter's expanded sound is evident in this live performance of a gorgeous track from Semper Femina.
First Listen: The Como Mamas, 'Move Upstairs'
The family gospel trio's new album is soul-stirring praise music married to the electric rhythms of Memphis.
Songs We Love: Now, Now, 'SGL'
Five years past the much-beloved Threads, Now, Now returns as a duo. Hear the heart-throbbing pop song with a karaoke-bar blast radius.
Jesse Hale Moore On World Cafe
The Philly singer's falsetto-laden debut album, Green End, is a meditation on heartbreak — but he performs it now with a heart repaired.