Our list of the best albums out this week includes the first new music from Chaka Khan in 12 years, the transporting sounds of Yann Tiersen, the bubblegum punk of Sir Babygirl and more.
In a piece published Wednesday evening by the New York Times, several women shared similar stories of being approached by Adams with offers of professional help before he began pursuing them sexually.
This Valentine's Day, NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Jessica Roy, an audience engagement editor for the Los Angeles Times, about her piece on songs that were ruined by exes and past relationships.
A New York Times report alleges singer-songwriter Ryan Adams emotionally abused women and offered career advances in exchange for sex. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with reporter Melena Ryzik.
The songwriting of this Boston-born artist is sly, mellifluous and bitingly honest. Her latest, "Whorey Heart," illustrates the emotive see-saw of trying to cut someone off.
Charles laid claim to the center of American popular music on these 1962 classics, and ended up with some of the brashest and best-selling music of his career.