Country Star Morgan Wallen Suspended By Label, Dropped By Radio, CMT After Using Slur
The moves came after TMZ posted a video of the fast-rising country star using a racial slur.
Music & Culture
Langhorne Slim Finds Peace In The Chaos On 'Strawberry Mansion'
After getting help with his addiction and while pausing for the pandemic, Langhorne Slim found songs — happy, sad, anxious, joyful — to be pouring out of him like deep breaths.
Immanuel Wilkins: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
The jazz saxophonist and his quartet perform three songs that speak directly to the struggle and triumph of the Black experience for Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration.
City Scenes: Austin On Pause
KUTX examines the impact of SXSW's absence from local venues this year.
The Blind Spot In The Great American Protest Song
Jennifer Lopez's performance of "This Land Is Your Land" at last month's presidential inauguration ceremony has reignited conversations about the erasure of Native Americans in the iconic folk tune.
On 'Broken Harvest,' Madison Cunningham Is Hopeful For A Fresh Start
2020 was set to be a fruitful year for the artist, full of travel and music. In her contribution to Morning Edition's Song Project, she faces the reality of that loss and finds hope in starting over.
New Album, 'Sounds Of The Unborn,' Gets A Prenatal Assist
Luca Yupanqui recorded her contributions to the album while still in the womb. For the recording sessions, her parents used "biosonic MIDI technology" to translate Luca's movements into musical notes.
Saint Coltrane: The Church Built On 'A Love Supreme'
Jazz Night visits the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, an evolving house of worship that has incorporated John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album as their chief liturgical text.
JLCO Septet with Wynton Marsalis: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
The political is personal for the nine-time Grammy winner. Watch him lead the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet through three songs from his Democracy! Suite.
Dolly Parton Says She Turned Down Presidential Medal Of Freedom — Twice
The singer says she was offered the honor by the Trump administration but was unable to accept, first because her husband was ill and then because the pandemic made traveling to the ceremony unsafe.