Though the trumpeter Lee Morgan was killed in 1972, his legacy was well maintained. At least it seemed so, until one fan discovered last year that Morgan's gravesite seemed to have vanished.
As she turns 81, the singer whose intimacy matches her grandeur is the subject of a public television documentary, “Irma: My Life in Music.”
The visionary pianist influenced everyone from Quincy Jones to Billy Joel, while flying under the fame radar himself. A new documentary tells the unsung hero’s story.
The Riot Grrrl movement feels like one of the last real revolutions in rock and punk, and not just because of its feminist, anti-capitalist politics. As Polyphonic outlines in his short music history video, Riot Grrrl was one of the last times anything major happened in rock…
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Bigotry and ignorance, in the age of the internet, have a way of catching up with you. And Clapton’s racism and conspiracy theories can no longer be ignored.
Spotify’s recent Joe Rogan controversy has also deepened a rift between the platform and artists over pay.
The musicians were diabolically bad as people, and satanically good as performers.
Plus, riffs on everything from Olivia Rodrigo’s songs being “how rock and roll works” to passing on a chance to write for Adele.
Did the iconic three-note sequence come from Stravinsky, the Muppets or somewhere else? Our writer set out to – dun, dun duuuun! – reveal the mystery
All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs—with consumption of new music actually shrinking. How did we get here, and is there a way back?
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The Boy Named If by Elvis Costello & the Imposters album reviews & Metacritic score: The latest full-length release from Elvis Costello And The Imposters features a guest appearance from Nicole Atkins....
Between 1985 and 1988, a teenager by the name of Sohrab Habibion was attending punk and post-punk shows around the Washington, DC area. What set him apart was the bulky video camera he’d bring to the show and let roll, documenting entire gigs in all their low-rez, lo-fi glory.
The thorny subject of the greatest guitar solo of all time has long been a fiercely contested debate, probably because every solo is different. How do you compare, say, “Comfortably Numb” with “Crazy Train,” or “Stairway to Heaven” with “Sultans of Swing”? It’s impossible.
For the first time, the authors of a recent study isolated the electrical neural signals of prediction by studying moments of silence in music.
In a year of continued uncertainty, musicians held their colleagues, and listeners, close.
I know, we're all doing vinyl and there has probably been no better time to be a vinyl junkie, given the number of places selling it and the...
Josephine Baker next week will become the first Black woman and first American to be honored with enshrinement in Paris' Pantheon.
In honor of Ringer Films’ new documentary ‘DMX: Don’t Try to Understand,’ we’re tracing the lineage of the crown of hip-hop’s mecca
If listeners today can stream just about any song they want, why are so many music aficionados still buying records? Ryan Raffaelli and Gold Rush Vinyl CEO Caren Kelleher discuss the resurgence of vinyl.
After a chunk of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back.
58 musicians showed up for a picture that captured the giants of jazz
Nenad Georgievski writes at All About Jazz, though the world knew little about Malian music until American musicians began partnering with players from West Africa. In the 1980s, Stevie Wonder began touring with Amadou and Mariam, helping to popularize their form of Malian blues.
A lifetime of brutal injuries and misfortune robbed the world-renowned pianist João Carlos Martins of the ability to play his instrument. And then along came an eccentric designer and his bionic gloves.
The industry is at its strongest since the advent of the CD, so why has it become near-impossible to get music pressed onto wax?
Researchers studying chills-inducing music inadvertently created an epic, multi-genre list of songs that ought to give you goosebumps. We made a Spotify playlist from it.
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This item is only available for purchase within the USA. The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap is a first-of-its-kind multimedia collection chronicling the growth of the music and culture from the parks of the Bronx to solidifying a reach that spans the globe. The set…
Jimmy Holmes is the last in a line of music legends as he seeks to keep a singular American art form thriving
After years apart, the Black Crowes perform at the Forum on Thursday, part of a tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of the group’s breakthrough debut.
Why does a genre obsessed with death attract the kindest people?
WPKN-FM—on which you can hear a Stevie Wonder song performed by an all-women jazz septet or twenty minutes of Tuvan throat singing—moves to a new location in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” ranked highest in challenging musical expectations.
Southern singer-songwriter Paul Thorn joins NPR's Debbie Elliott to talk about his latest record, Never Too Late To Call.
Clarksdale, Miss., where blues guitarist-singer Christone "Kingfish" Ingram hails from, is "pretty much the mecca of the blues," Ingram says in an interview with NPR's A Martinez on Morning Edition.
Yola discusses mixing genres from country to disco in her Dan Auerbach-produced 'Stand for Myself' and acting in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis film.
A lovable grouch, obsessed with the magic of American sidewalk harmony, runs the Philadelphia shop
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How do we understand Blue in the 21st century? Can we think of Mitchell's 1971 album, long considered the apex of confessional songwriting, as a paradigm not of raw emotion, but of care and craft?
New West Records announced a new album from James McMurtry today, his first full-length studio recording since 2015’s Complicated Game. The Horses and the Hounds will be released Aug. 20 and was recorded at Jackson Browne’s Groove Masters studio in […]
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Thirty years ago, Billboard changed the way it tabulated its charts, turning the industry on its head and making room for genres once considered afterthoughts to explode in the national consciousness
Paris for celebrations of the year 2000, settling for 100. These numbers pale next to the largest guitar ensemble on record, 6,346 people in Poland in 2009.
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When Megan Thee Stallion took off her bright orange mask and walked onstage to accept her Grammy on March 14, she fought back tears and thanked God, her mother, and her managers for helping her become the first female rapper to win the award for best new artist in two decades.
Fifty years after their first release, the country-rock titans led by Don Henley and the late Glenn Frey still loom large in American music. Their hits still get play and their sound is a precursor to modern Nashville. But has this biggest of bands aged well? A panel of experts…