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Sonic Youth's co-founder took her cues from a '60s girl-group but forges a new lane. NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich functions as your antidote to the algorithm in eight tracks to know this week.

More than a hundred roles in a nearly four-decade career let Val Kilmer explore a wealth of human experience.

Many of the biggest hits in pop music used to have a key change, but it's getting harder and harder to find in top hits.

Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and whose lifetime of creative work helped shape our world.

The selective, historically black women's college in Atlanta has cut the college's once-esteemed jazz program, a rarity within the traditionally male-dominated genre.

Multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers has sparked sessions by Miles Davis and Tony Williams, and he fostered New York's Loft Jazz scene of the 1970s. Now he's doing the same in the land of Mickey Mouse.

John Cale, a legend of avant-garde music, is out with a highly-collaborative album called Mercy at the age of 80.

Critic Kevin Whitehead reflects on the jazz notables who died this year, including Sheila Jordan, Andy Bey, Ray Drummond, Bunky Green, Chuck Mangione, Eddie Palmieri and Jim McNeely.

This program is a survey of songs from musicals that opened in New York in March spanning 118 years from 1902 to 2020.

This program will look at songs about brides and weddings from the musicals for all of those June weddings.