Grammy Awards: Here's A Preview Before Tonight's Show
The 59th Annual Grammy Awards are tonight. NPR Music editor Stephen Thompson gives us a preview of what to expect.
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Al Jarreau, Versatile Vocalist Who 'Played His Voice,' Dies At 76
Since the legendary singer began his career in the 1960s, he won Grammys in the jazz, pop and R&B categories. Just one clue that Jarreau, who died Sunday, was impossible to categorize.
Dance Music Sex Romance: Prince Streams 4 U
Now that his catalog has come to streaming services, we've created four playlists to highlight the fundamentals of the Prince ideology.
After Wowing Pharrell, Maggie Rogers Delivers Her Pop Thesis
In 2016, a video of Pharrell Williams being floored by one of Rogers' demos went viral. She tells Lulu Garcia-Navarro how she arrived at a sound that marries acoustic folk to electronic production.
DJ Betto Arcos Shares His Musical Finds From The Panama Jazz Festival
The globetrotting world-music maven returns to weekends on All Things Considered with an armload of records.
David Axelrod, Musical Visionary And Historical Propellant, Remembered
David Axelrod was a genre-fusing genius, a visionary artist in a boxer's body, a producer and composer who propelled popular music into an unknown future.
The Grammys May Not Be Hip, But For These Nominees, The Awards Still Matter
In a year when the likes of Frank Ocean and Justin Bieber have dismissed the awards show as irrelevant, Mandalit del Barco speaks to a few artists for whom a Grammy win remains a very big deal.
Across the Blue Ridge #59- Gospel, Country, Bluegrass and Old Time
This week we hear a fabulous bluegrass fiddle tune from Corinna Logsdon of High Fidelity… plus a gritty country song from Becky Hobbs… and the Alabama hit cover of another of Hobbs' songs, Ange
How 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' Became The World's First Gold Record
Seventy-five years ago, Glenn Miller's hit kicked off a music industry tradition — and helped change its namesake city.
Boston Symphony Orchestra Gets Grammy Nods For Shostakovich Recordings
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is up for two Grammys for its series of recordings of Shostakovich symphonies. It was recorded in front of a live audience, but it's not one seamless performance.