Tim Duffy started Music Maker Relief Foundation to support blues musicians lost to time and poverty. He's also photographed their portraits for a new book, compilation album and museum exhibition.
Songwriter and producer Dave Clark recalls working with Freddie Mercury on the song "Time Waits for No One," and he describes how he found the recording after decades of searching.
NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Adrian Enscoe, Sydney Shepherd and Regina Strayhorn, members of the band Bandits on the Run and stand-out entrants in this year's Tiny Desk Contest.
The punk-ish duo, made up of brothers Paul and Joe DeGeorge, helped pioneer the micro-genre of "wizard rock" in 2002. Now, much like You-Know-Who (but benevolent), they've returned.
ANIMA's brief visual counterpart, available now on Netflix, feels artful, warm and uncharacteristically revealing. Plus, it's got some of the Radiohead singer's wildest dance moves yet.
Ever since a 17-year-old Lesley Gore sang it in 1963, the coolly mutinous song has moved women to reject passive femininity. Its writers, though, say there are layers of resistance in its words.