Music Features

Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the Charles M. Blow memoir of the same title, is the first work by a Black composer to be staged by the Metropolitan Opera.

Musician Michelle Zauner talks about the history and process behind her soundtrack for the new video game Sable – including inspiration from The Secret of Mana and indie legends Yo La Tengo.

Susan Anway, the singer on The Magnetic Fields' early albums, died this month. For many, her legacy is the remarkable "100,000 Fireflies," a desolate love song that finds the comfort in emptiness.

Family musicians Dan and Claudia Zanes are releasing their first duo album, a collection of original songs that deal with social justice, anti-racism & joy — conceived during the coronavirus pandemic.

Rodrigo's spiky "good 4 u" isn't just a breakup song: It inserts her into a tradition of art, including one particularly beloved cult horror film, about the right of teenage girls to get angry.

Philly has historically been home to generations of forward-thinking, boundlessly creative Black artists. This year, the Black Music City program celebrated that legacy with a series of projects.

After thousands of entries, the Tiny Desk Contest judges have landed on this year's winner.

Picking one winner from thousands of amazing entries wasn't easy. But one singer-songwriter rose to the top, with a song about rooting yourself in nature that stopped our judges in their tracks.

"We're all taught that the success of a relationship has to somehow correlate with the length of it... I just don't think that that's fully accurate." The singer-songwriter's new album is out today.

From the '60s on Lee "Scratch" Perry, who died on Aug. 29, brought reggae into rootsy shape and developed his own collaborative production techniques, all of which reverberate (heavily) to this day.

As a kid, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd adored Salt-N-Pepa's music and moves. In revisiting the trio's third album, she realized it also taught her what confidence and collectivity look like in action.

With sets shipped from Europe stuck on a boat that can't dock because of coronavirus disruption, LA Opera went to work building new sets, cramming months of work into ten days.