As Jazz Fest Looks At 50, What Keeps It Alive?
Having cycled through a full generation of performers (not to mention audience), how does the grandpa of festival culture compete in the Coachella-sized market it helped create?
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'Blinded By The Light': Your Contributions To Our Solar Eclipse Soundtrack
While watching the total eclipse, folks might want to follow along with some toe-tapping music about the sun, stars and moon. We've got the playlist for the wondrous sky event.
Scouring For New Music With 'Alt.Latino'
Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras recently returned from the Latin American Music Conference in New York and presents some musical gems he discovered there.
How Time Off — And Surfing — Influenced Fleet Foxes' 'Crack-Up'
In 2011, the band put its career on hold at the height of its success. Singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold says he needed to turn his attention back to other parts of his life to grow as an artist.
'Good Booty': Backing Up How Music And Sex Helped Shape American Culture
In her new book Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art form.
President Trump To Skip Kennedy Center Honors, Highlighting Rift With Artists
Three of the five honorees had already spoken out against the president and said they either planned to boycott a White House event or were considering it.
Santana And The Isley Brothers Come Together For 'Power Of Peace'
For this new collaborative album, the icons aimed for timelessness — a sound "frozen in immortality, eternity and infinity," Santana says. Power Of Peace was released July 28.
Across the Blue Ridge #86- Bluegrass, Country & Blues Classics
This week's show is chock full of great singing and inspiring instrumentals. We hear from Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers, a truly classic bluegrass band from Ohio, just out with a new a
The Sun, The Moon And A String Quartet: Kronos Plays Live To The Solar Eclipse
The adventuresome ensemble, along with a science-friendly composer, transforms the rare solar event into music in real time.
Robert Plant Announces New Album, 'Carry Fire'
The former Led Zeppelin singer's 11th solo album arrives Oct. 13. Listen to its first single, "The May Queen," now.