Play buttonMusic World Cafe Nashville: A New Music RoundupNPR - Jewly HightIn the pop music world, artists' windows of opportunity to break through seem shorter than ever. As quickly as they make names for themselves, they're pushed aside by the next big batch of next big things,
Play buttonMusic Baby Rose Guides Us Through The Emotional Sludge Of LoveNPR - Sidney MaddenPlayground ridicule has a way of sticking in your memory. It can haunt you, motivate you or barely phase you now, but still, it lingers. Like many of us, the quality that's most striking about Baby Rose
Play buttonMusic Taylor McFerrin Steps In Front Of The Mic For 'Love's Last Chance'NPR - Lindsay TottyThe music of Taylor McFerrin can sound like something out of science fiction, yet with a soulful quality. The hip-hop beats he grew up with in the '90s form the backbone of his sound, but what gives it
Music Tobe Nwigwe: Tiny Desk ConcertNPR - Abby O'NeillHailing from the southwest region of Houston and of Nigerian descent, Tobe Nwigwe made his Tiny Desk debut a family affair, with an entourage that included his seven-week old daughter. The baby was in
Teddybears My Signature Song: 'Are You Feelin' It?'NPRJohn Klinkle of Sierra Vista, Ariz., shares his "signature song": "Are You Feelin' It?" by Teddybears. It's time now for John Klinkle of Sierra Vista, Ariz., to share how he stumbled onto his signature
Music Jazzmeia Horn On 'Love And Liberation'NPRNPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with jazz singer Jazzmeia Horn about her sophomore album Love and Liberation. There are jazz singers, and then there's Jazzmeia Horn. The music genre is literally part
Play buttonNick Jonas The Jonas Brothers Recapture The 'Magic Missing' By Putting Family FirstNPR - Michel Martin , Gemma WattersAs early 2000s Disney Channel stars and a platinum-selling pop rock band, the members of the Jonas Brothers — Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas — have grown up a lot in the public eye. But when the band suddenly
Music What One Attendee Remembers From WoodstockNPR - Robert GoldsteinThe late NPR music librarian Robert Goldstein was at Woodstock. We offer his "Parable of the Hot Dogs" on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the festival. Fifty years ago today, Joe Cocker took the
Music Josh Rouse On Mountain StageNPR - Dave LavenderFlanked by long-time bandmates Marc Pisapia on drums/vocals and James Haggerty on bass/vocals, the now Nashville-based Josh Rouse strolls back for his third visit to Mountain Stage (but his first in 15
Music Guest DJ: Fabi Reyna, She Shreds Magazine Founder And MusicianNPR - Felix ContrerasHere's a statistic for you: According to Fender Guitars, women now make up 50% of all entry-level players who buy their products. Because today our guest is the Portland-based Fabi Reyna, who is not only
Play buttonMusic Mother, Matriarch And MentorNPR - Jewly HightMaybelle Carter apparently made a mean chicken gizzard soup, which called for chicken livers, necks and backs, besides the gizzards. Her daughter June Carter Cash published that recipe, along with a host
Play buttonJohn Coltrane A Lost Album From John Coltrane, With Thanks To A French-Canadian DirectorNPR - Nate Chinen"There is never any end," John Coltrane said sometime in the mid-1960s, at the height of his powers. "There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at." Coltrane, one of jazz's most revered
Play buttonSleater-Kinney Burn, Don't Freeze: Sleater-Kinney On Making Art In The Midst Of ChangeNPR - Rachel Martin , Kevin TidmarshSleater-Kinney got a new beginning a few years ago. In 2006, the trio — guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein and drummer Janet Weiss — announced a hiatus, after half a dozen albums that had made
Music New Music Friday: Our Top 8 Albums Out On Aug. 16NPR - Robin Hilton , Ann Powers , Lyndsey McKenna , Sidney MaddenSleater-Kinney took a lot of chances on its latest album, The Center Won't Hold, upending its much beloved sound to experiment with strange sonics, dark textures and surprising forms. The result is one
Music Kian Soltani: Tiny Desk ConcertNPR - Tom HuizengaIt's not every day someone walks into our NPR Music offices and unpacks an instrument made in 1680. And yet Kian Soltani, the 27-year-old cellist who plays with the authority and poetry of someone twice
Plácido Domingo Plácido Domingo Accuser Patricia Wulf Shares Her StoryNPR - Ailsa ChangOn Monday, The Associated Press reported that as many as nine women were accusing revered opera star Plácido Domingo of sexual harassment over decades. Domingo has adamantly denied the allegations. The
Music Remembering Bob Wilber, A Standard Bearer For Traditional JazzNPR - Terry GrossThe saxophonist and clarinetist, a student of Sidney Bechet and a specialist in early styles of the music, died Aug. 4 at the age of 91. He spoke with Terry Gross in 1988, excerpted here. (Hear the full
Miles Davis Electric Miles: Behind The 'Brew'WBGO and Jazz At Lincoln CenterNPR - Nate ChinenElectric Miles. Few word pairings in the jazz lexicon are apt to inspire so much contention and challenge and ferment. What the phrase refers to, of course, is a period in the career of trumpeter Miles
Play buttonMusic On The Border With Maybelle Carter And Lydia MendozaNPR - Deborah VargasImagine, if you will, being a listener to a radio station on the U.S.-Mexico border in 1939. You would likely be listening to XERA, a radio station broadcast from Cuidad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, across
Play buttonMusic How To Play The 'Carter Scratch' (Featuring Courtney Marie Andrews)NPRThe eight women we chose to honor in this season of Turning the Tables were skilled singers, writers, instrumental innovators and musical pioneers. But often in the stories of these women's lives and their
Woodstock Music Festival How Woodstock Changed The Little Town Of Bethel, N.Y.NPR - Karen MichelFifty years ago, the tiny town of Bethel, N.Y., was transformed into a teeming city of more than 400,000 people brought together by peace, love and music. Today, the site of the Woodstock Music and Art
Music A Lifetime Of Labor: Maybelle Carter At WorkNPR - Jessica WilkersonAt 16 years old Maybelle Addington, soon to be Carter, quit school and went to work. She joined a steady flow of girls who left the rural communities of their upbringing and went to the city in the 1920s.
Music T Bone Burnett On Producing Legends And Singing His Own TunesNPR - Talia Schlanger , John MyersRecord producer T Bone Burnett has worked with legendary artists including Bob Dylan, Brandi Carlile, Elvis Costello, Gillian Welch, Elton John, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. He's also produced soundtracks
Play buttonMusic Alt.Latino Playlist: Catching Up After A Short Summer GetawayNPR - Felix Contreras , Stefanie Fernández , Marisa Arbona-RuizEven your dedicated Alt.Latino crew has to take some time off every now and then. As we dispersed to beaches, poolsides or family gatherings, the new music piled up so this week we try to squeeze in as
Old Town Road The Long Ride To 'Old Town Road': Black Artists And Their Contributions To Country Music - 1Athe1a.org Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” has shattered Billboard Hot 100 records after 19 chart-topping weeks. It’s a certified hit, but there’s one chart the …
A$AP Rocky A$AP Rocky Found Guilty Of AssaultNPR - Andrew LimbongRapper A$AP Rocky has been found guilty of assault in Sweden tied to an altercation in June, but was given a suspended sentence and has been ordered to pay 12,500 Swedish krona — about $1,300 — to the
Play buttonMusic What It Means To Listen To Sleater-Kinney NowNPR - Hanif AbdurraqibConsistency and longevity are the two parents of expectation, which can hang immovably over the corners of fandom. In music, when a band is very good for a very long time, it becomes impossible to imagine
Play buttonNashville, TN Slingshot: 10 Nashville Artists To Add To Your PlaylistsNPRPeople still imagine a sea of cowboy boots and hats when they think of Nashville, but it's so much more than that when it comes to our rich and diverse community of music creators. WMOT has recently launched
Music 3 Afro Dominicana Writers Reflect On Their TruthsNPR - Felix Contreras , Jessica Diaz-HurtadoThe Dominican Republic has the historic distinction of being the landing spot of Christopher Columbus in 1492 after he sailed the ocean blue, but that European invasion set off a series of historical social
