Mancari offers stories of wandering and homecoming, colored by a determination to live, artistically, beyond the gender boundaries usually imposed on female artists.
The funk master is back with his first album in six years: World Wide Funk. He talks King Records and his relationship with the late Bernie Wollner in an interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.
In a new video for her song "In Harm's Way," the singer addresses a question she says is absent from current political discourse: "Have we forgotten how to be generous?"
It's impossible to discuss early Hollywood and Broadway hits without acknowledging Fields, who wrote over 400 songs between 1928 and 1973 and is responsible for some of the greatest tunes of our time.
Singer and dancer Johnny Clegg — the co-founder of two groundbreaking, racially mixed bands during the apartheid era — is battling pancreatic cancer. He's saying goodbye to his fans on a U.S. tour.
Film composer Mark Korven, known for his soundtrack to The Witch, commissioned an instrument called the Apprehension Engine to create scary soundscapes.