Lady Gaga returned to pop music when she released "Mayhem" last week. NPR Music's Hazel Cills talks to Rob Schmitz about the album.

A lot can happen in a decade. In the music world alone, we saw significant sonic shifts in genres, artists rise and fall, and ...

In some ways, COVID shrank the distance between musicians and listeners. But then, it also threw nearly everything about the industry into disarray, and for many, things have never been the same.

Kevin O'Connor is joined by Gordon Hayward & Tom Haberstroh to talk NBA draft prospects, teams whose playoff hopes are rising ...

Spread the love Hip-hop, as a genre and cultural force, has evolved dramatically since its inception in the 1970s. From its ...

Throughout its history jazz has been in fashion and out of it – but it’s never gone away. Jazz is at its heart Black American ...

From his debut in June 1966 with the Mothers of Invention 's double Freak Out! album to his death in December 1993 at the age ...

The Near End, the Dark Night, the County Line couldn’t be a more welcoming, or easygoing, introduction to Takuro Okada as a solo artist. Cherry-picked from recording sessions over the past decade, ...

In the Village Voice bestselling author T.J. English interviews saxophonist Darryl Yokley about his ambitious take on a literary masterpiece.

Over the past decade, several albums have not only dominated the charts and warranted rave reviews, but many also culminated ...

The Who songwriter Pete Townshend always boasted an expansive music taste, and his early interest in jazz left him feeling ...

After making 10 albums with of my band, I really wanted to stretch out and be more adventurous,” Nicolle said.