Girlpool Lives Every Band's Nightmare: Playing A Bowling Alley
Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad, the sweetly synchronized guitarist and bassist for Girlpool, aren't really feeling it in a new video for their song, "Powerplant."
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'We Start With 50,000 Liters Of Farm-Fresh Urine...'
To fertilize its barley, a brewery in Denmark is using urine collected at the Roskilde Music Festival. The beer is called "Pisner," because of course it is.
Something You Didn't Know About Emmanuel Macron: He's A Pianist
An avid amateur musician, France's next president studied at the conservatory in his native Amiens as a child.
Grammy Awards Switch Coasts, Return To New York
The show last graced the Big Apple in 2003.
Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away' Remixed As A Brooding, Beat-Driven Instrumental
Under the name Ghosting, Melbourne producer Andrei Eremin is reinventing Studio Ghibli movies as a beat tape. His mixtape comes out Friday.
Gloria Gaynor Performs 'I Will Survive' In The Library Of Congress
The Library of Congress threw a retrospective, "Bibliodiscotheque," in honor of the genre's history — the event could be considered its finish line.
Songs We Love: Bedouine, 'Solitary Daughter'
Los Angeles-based folk singer Azniv Korkejian says her new song, with its melancholic, orchestrated arrangement, is "a rejection of conventional romance; it's not something that I needed."
Nashville Regrouping: 10 Inspired Collaborations Out Of Music City
Whether it's pairings of peers, of romantic partners or of patron saints and acolytes — there's a pattern brewing in Nashville that needs attention.
Perfume Genius Is Still Figuring Out How To Be In Love
Mike Hadreas' new album as Perfume Genius, No Shape, centers on his relationship with boyfriend Alan Wyffels. The couple tells NPR's Rachel Martin about making music as recovering addicts and gay men.
Sir Mix-a-Lot On 25 Years Of 'Baby Got Back'
"It was like a blown-out, glorified version of what was actually being said at that time," the rapper says of the butt-positive single that inspired controversy, parody and some genuine gratitude.