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Rachel Thomas/WFDDOn her regular drive into work, WFDD's Rachel Thomas watched as an artist filled a massive white wall on the Reynolds Central Distribution Center in Winston-Salem with a unique design — a monochrome pattern of densely packed stars, hearts, smiley faces, and more.For this week’s Carolina Curious, our guest reporter wanted to know — what’s the deal with all the doodles? -
Betty Shanefelter/Montgomery County Public Schools' Visual Art Center"What is it like to be a teen right now?" Young artists explored that question for two different exhibitions of their work this summer. But on the National Mall, their work was deemed too political.
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Journalist Art Silverman has an appreciation of the world's most influential, part-time musical-satirist. Tom Lehrer made people laugh by singing about politics, nuclear destruction and social harmony, among other themes.
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Pop megastar Madonna's new album, called 'Veronica Electronica,' returns to a time when Madonna was at the peak of her powers – and when dance music transformed into forms that were both more aggressive and more psychedelic.
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There is no clear choice for this year's Song of the Summer in the same way Beyonce's "Break My Soul" dominated the summer of 2022.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Julia Riew about her book, "The Last Tiger." It's a fantasy inspired by her grandparents' lives during a dark period in Korea's history.
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Brittany dives into the economy behind Christian contemporary music -
NPR Music's 2025 Tiny Desk Contest yielded thousands of entries, including some standouts in the pop and rock categories.
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Bergman died July 17 at the age of 99. For more than 60 years he collaborated on award-winning songs with his wife and co-writer Marilyn Bergman. The couple spoke with Terry Gross in 2007.
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London's Sunday Times once called Laine "quite simply the best singer in the world." -
In the latest Superman film, Lois Lane and Clark Kent have a fight about what's more punk: edginess or kindness. The fate of something more than the mosh pit hangs in the balance. -
Osbourne has come to be known for his "uniform" of about three decades — a long black coat, round sunglasses, a crucifix around his neck. But his style had many iterations before then.
