Slingshot's 2023 Artists to Watch
Public radio hosts chime in on what artists are up for a big break in 2023.
Music & Culture
Dakh Daughters: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023
Dakh Daughters create an atmosphere of a French saloon, where Mireille Mathieu befriends Marilyn Manson.
Forensic musicologists race to rescue works lost after the Holocaust
The Exilarte Center in Vienna is the world's leading research institution devoted to preserving the work of composers such as Walter Arlen and others, who were exiled or killed during the Holocaust.
The Thistle & Shamrock: New Music
Fiona Ritchie brings in the new year with new music for you to enjoy and discover. Hear artists like Rory Matheson and Graham Rorie, Fiona J. Mackenzie, and Alastair Savage.
Zach Bryan (feat. Maggie Rogers), 'Dawns'
Maggie Rogers' voice allows the duo to play with perspective and, in doing so, refreshes the template of Zach Bryan's laments.
Remembering David Crosby, the outspoken co-founder of Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, who was also a member of The Byrds, was known for his great harmonies, his songwriting. He died Jan. 18. In 1990 Terry Gross spoke with Crosby and his former bandmate Graham Nash.
Celebrating the centennial of Sun Records founder Sam Phillips
Phillips, who died in 2003, discovered Elvis and produced his first records, and was one of the leading catalysts in post-WWII American music. Originally broadcast in 1997.
Tiny Desk meets globalFEST: Taraf de Caliu, Noura Mint Seymali and more
For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival — Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
As Ryuichi Sakamoto returns with '12,' fellow artists recall his impact
The composer has been lauded for decades over his deeply affective music; director Alejandro González Iñárritu, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and more join us to explain why.
'This is not entertainment': John Zorn, all over Big Ears
Composer and alto saxophonist John Zorn brings eight eclectic bands to the Big Ears Festival stage, ranging from solo classical piano to all-out electrified jams.