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Bronson ArcuriCharlie Puth, one of the biggest pop hitmakers of the last decade, turns the Tiny Desk into a jazz club. -
Deanne Fitzmaurice for NPRThe Grateful Dead endured an original run of 30 years, but its appeal has survived just as long in a world where the band no longer exists. The question now is not whether the music will continue, but how?
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America's darling diva pairs up with the banjo guru of our time for a set of old Appalachian songs about love, loss and the sturdy hope for better times. -
Glen Hansard, the Irish singer who won an Oscar for the musical movie Once and the led the bands The Frames and The Swell Season, died on Wednesday. He died following a motorcycle crash in Dublin. -
Plus, Avalon Emerson & The Charm perform songs from the band's latest album, Written Into Changes. -
Gracie Abrams, one of today's biggest new singer-songwriters, has polarized critics with her confessional writing and A-list upbringing. Why do people care so much that she is taking up space? -
You could look at Foreign Tongues, the Rolling Stones' 25th album, as a tour of the group's musical variations. But it mixes reliable fun and remarkable energy with a generous attitude toward aging. -
After four decades as a founding member of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Flea goes solo with a stellar jazz band. -
Pianist Lara Downes and Pulitzer-winning author Salamishah Tillet discuss Nina Simone and one of her best-known songs at her lovingly restored birthplace in Tryon, N.C. -
Meet the fourth and fifth grades who are superstars on the Internet: An elementary school chorus from Staten Island known as PS22, where kids learn to be their most authentic selves through singing. -
The musician, producer and Vampire Weekend cofounder shares musical insights from American Stories. -
Ditching the punchy pop punk of Guts to play with a soft '80s pop and New Wave-indebted sound, her new LP is about the life cycle of her first "real, big girl" relationship. The result is bittersweet. -
Frontman Ben Gibbard talks about the band's latest album, I Built You a Tower. Watch them perform four songs live. -
Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck's joint project, which took more than 20 years to finalize, sees them collaborate with other folk musicians and singers.
