Before Carlile's return as SNL's Musical Guest on November 1, find out her new Returning to Myself album features a song ...

One specific moment captured the group’s insouciant defiance better than any other: when, in the song, the Beasties start ...

Neil Young was a hugely influential musician in the 1970s, but it was one from a decade earlier, he thought paved the way for ...

Most musical instruments produce tones whose partial tones, or overtones, are harmonic: their frequencies are whole-number ...

Marcus Rattler of Legerdemain. // photo by After an extremely intense weekend in Arkansas, emergencies, and mishaps, it was ...

Oscar-winning team Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers discuss their new collaboration 'The Eyes of Ghana', a call to action for ...

For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, ...

Blind musician Tennie Fitzpatrick has filled Stones River Manor with music for 20 years. She taught herself to play seven ...

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum will start its fall group music lessons on Nov. 4. And by the time the lessons end of Dec. 16, students will be ready to perform Christmas songs at local ...

Trumpeter fled Afghanistan after the Taliban, who prohibit music, regained power. He's seeking asylum in the U.S. along with other refugees ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with R&B musician Leon Thomas, who describes his new EP Pholks as a collaboration of polymaths inspired by multi-talented artists like Prince and Quincy Jones.

At the end of each summer, sophomore David Bellet and his family throw a music night for their friends and families in Nashville to enjoy an evening of country, folk, and Americana before packing his ...