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Hal Needham worked as a Hollywood stuntman for over 40 years. He details some of his most death-defying feats (and why he can't stand modern special effects) in his new memoir, Stuntman!

The deaths of two foundational members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a forward-thinking Chicago jazz collective, offers a chance to reflect on its evolving impact.

In the 1980s, pianist Michele Rosewoman and drummer Francisco Mora-Catlett started independently pursuing a mixture of Afro-Caribbean mysticism and avant-garde jazz. Thirty years later, they've finally recorded their otherworldly large ensembles.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Fall Out Boy members Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz about their new album So Much (For) Stardust.

Lisa Robinson knows how to talk — and how to make others, especially musicians, want to talk. The veteran rock journalist speaks with NPR's Wade Goodwyn about her four decades behind the scenes.

De La Soul brought a necessary playfulness to hip-hop in 1989, but battles with the music industry dimmed that light. Marcus J. Moore tells their story in "High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul."

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and the United States.

After the pandemic shut down fashion's biggest night in 2020, the Met Gala came back on the 75th anniversary of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A Texas rapper sets his rhymes to country beats. Host Jennifer Ludden talks with singer Cowboy Troy about the hybrid music style he calls "hick-hop." Troy's new album is called Loco Motive.

In just a week and a half, Inside Out 2 has become 2024’s highest-grossing film to date, surpassing Dune: Part Two. Inside Out 2 will likely blow through the $1 billion mark in about a week.