Louder Than A Riot: Season 2
In hip-hop, unwritten rules have forced Black women and queer artists to fight for space. Can the genre's rule-breakers push their way to the center, while pushing the culture forward?
Music & Culture
Listen Live from the SXSW Radio Day Stage
Public Radio curated a lineup including Thee Sacred Souls, Aoife Nessa Frances, Hermanos Gutiérrez, and Debby Friday on Friday March 17.
A new Guinness World record holder has been on the radio for 7 decades
Mary McCoy started working as a DJ in 1951 when she was 12. At 85, she hosts a two-hour country music show — six days a week on KVST in Huntsville, Texas.
Bobby Caldwell, singer of 'What You Won't Do for Love,' dies at 71
Bobby Caldwell's smooth soul jam "What You Won't Do for Love" went to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. It became a long-term standard and career-defining hit for Caldwell, who also wrote the song.
Why Metallica is a big winner in the comeback of vinyl records
With vinyl records outselling CDs for the first time in 25 years, Metallica will keep up with the demand by owning its own record-pressing company. Metallica's newest album drops next month.
Tianna Esperanza's uphill climb to conquering 'Terror'
Raised in lily-white Cape Cod, Mass. while one of the few persons of color around, Esperanza found their voice the old-fashioned way: by searching for it.
Andrew Combs: Tiny Desk Concert
Watch the restless singer-songwriter in a set of penetrating new tunes, capped with a breathtaking love song.
Turner Williams Jr., 'Droplet'
The opening track from Briars on a Dewdrop plays like a field recording from a parallel world, yet there's something familiar in how its shimmering tones dart around a core motif.
Esperanza Spalding teams up with pianist Fred Hersch in this 'Vanguard' recording
When Hersch invited jazz, pop and opera composer Spalding to perform three nights with him at the Village Vanguard, he thought she'd bring her bass. Instead, Spalding just wanted to use her voice.
A tough question led one woman to create the first Puerto Rican reggaeton archive
Patricia Velázquez spent her whole life listening to reggaeton. But when she was questioned about sexism in the songs, she began an investigation that would lead her to create something new.