Gizzle: 'I Mean For It To Matter'
She's the one behind the curtain of the biggest and best-loved rap and R&B songs in recent memory.
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Viking's Choice: Stephen Steinbrink, 'Building Machines'
The gingerly sweet pop song is a great example of Steinbrink's ability to let listeners tie and untie vivid and unrelated images into something meaningful.
11 Very Different Opinions About The New Radiohead Album
NPR Music's staff really doesn't agree about the band's recently released ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool. Not at all.
Music Review: 'A Moon Shaped Pool,' Radiohead
NPR's Tom Moon reviews the ninth album from Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool.
World Cafe Next: Kwesi Foraes
The young California songwriter makes a splash with his debut EP, 27.
Lara St. John: Tiny Desk Concert
With intrepid pianist Matt Herskowitz in tow, the violinist performs a set of rambunctious tunes from Hungary and Romania that will leave you breathless.
Metropolis: 5/7/16
KCRW's Jason Bentley spins a two-hour EDM mix featuring a guest DJ set from Justin Martin.
Notorious FDA? Feds Turn To Hip-Hop To Tamp Down Teen Smoking
For its latest anti-tobacco campaign, the Food and Drug Administration wants to harness hip-hop swagger to reach minority teens — who disproportionately suffer the consequences of smoking.
Songs We Love: Pantha Du Prince, 'Frau Im Mond, Sterne Laufen'
Hendrik Weber veers away from electronic music's abstraction, using analog synths and his own voice to close the distance between audience and author.
Santana On 'Black Magic Woman,' A Pioneering Cultural Mashup
The band's leader and original drummer explain how a group house in 1960s San Francisco produced a groundbreaking union of Afro-Carribean rhythms, rock and jazz.