Celebrate International Women's Day with these axe-slinging heroes
World Cafe celebrates some of the greatest guitar players of all time, who just happen to be women.
Music Features
The lessons of Wayne Shorter, engine of imagination
Shorter's biographer, Michelle Mercer, recalls the many "isms" and lessons she learned from her time working with the legendary composer and saxophonist on his biography, Footprints.
2023 is the magic number
After years absent from the digital music landscape, what does it feel like to listen to one of hip-hop's most storied groups with fresh ears?
De La Soul Is Streaming
The iconic group's early music releasing online at last comes with a renewed interest in its career arc. Take a guided tour through one of the most distinguished runs in hip-hop history.
Wayne Shorter, sage of the saxophone, dies at 89
The composer and saxophonist, who won a dozen Grammy Awards and recorded with everyone from Miles Davis to Joni Mitchell, died on Thursday, March 2 in Los Angeles.
From the Warehouse to the world: Chicago and the birth of house music
For the people who were there when it was invented in small clubs and basement parties in Chicago in the 1980s, house music was a force of nature. Four decades later, its impact is bigger than ever.
Senegal's artists are fighting the system with a mic and spray paint
A cultural center in Senegal is creating a safe space where artists can use their platform to speak about climate change while also finding opportunities in the art and music scene.
Zulu's soul-sampling powerviolence shifts the pit toward love
Meaty riffs, disembodied screams and... Curtis Mayfield? Anaiah Lei carefully curates samples to acknowledge past freedom fighters and provide windows of hope.
At 3 she snuck in to play piano, at nearly 80, she's a Colombian classical legend
Teresita Gómez learned piano in secret at the exclusive fine arts school where her parents worked. She's now a celebrated classical pianist and a longtime promoter of music by Colombian composers.
50 years later, the celebrations and contradictions of 'Wattstax' still resonate
The documentary returns to theaters this month alongside the release of a new box set. It's a chance to consider what it captures (and doesn't) about music, race and justice in the 1970s and today.