Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: Kombilesa Mí, Northern Cree, Son Rompe Pera
For the second consecutive year, NPR teams up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival we call Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST.
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Steven Beck, 'Piano Sonata No. 5' (George Walker)
George Walker's final Piano Sonata might be short in length, but it's long on ideas, unfolding in a colorful thicket of textures and episodes.
New biography, 'The Hag,' examines the life of country music icon Merle Haggard
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Haggard's biographer Marc Eliot about his book: The Hag. Haggard spent his early years going from family tragedy to odd jobs to broken marriages to petty crime to prison.
Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST: Suistamon Sähkö, Bedouin Burger, ADG7
For the second consecutive year, NPR teams up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival we call Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST.
The Grammys have been rescheduled and moved to Las Vegas
The 64th annual Grammy Awards were postponed earlier this month following the rise in the omicron variant. Now the show will be televised on April 3.
caroline, 'Good morning (red)'
The octet's strung-together influences – Talk Talk's whisper-quiet post-rock, The Velvet Underground's yearning drones and Chamberlain's rootsy noodling – mingle with ambition.
'Wait Wait' for Jan. 15, 2022: With Not My Job guest Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves got her start in Austin, then left to conquer the world. She's about to do it all again on her Star-Crossed tour, but not before she answers our three questions about national anthems.
Molly Nilsson, 'Pompeii'
The Berlin-based goth-pop artist plumbs the tale of that ever-entwined couple buried in ash in Pompeii as a way into the concept of perpetual love.
Jenny Hval, 'Year of Love'
The Norwegian pop experimentalist trains her encompassing talent for shibboleth deconstruction towards a new "normcore institution" — her own marriage.
On 'CAPRISONGS,' FKA twigs vibrates at her highest frequency
The artist's community-oriented mixtape is a milestone of personal and professional transformation.