Music

Music & Culture

The Clarinet Trio's new album showcases the lovely sound of blended woodwinds

1:56pm May 10, 2022

by Kevin Whitehead

Transformations and Further Passages, a lively new album by Germany's The Clarinet Trio, revives tunes written by German jazz composers in the 1950s and '60s.

Queue Listen Now

Bono, Taras Topolia and "The Edge" perform at a subway station-turned-bomb shelter in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Sunday.

U2's Bono and the Edge held a concert in a Kyiv subway station in support of Ukraine

1:40pm May 10, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The musicians said they were performing in Kyiv at the invitation of Ukraine's president. They played acoustic versions of U2 hits and also shared the "stage" with the Ukrainian band Antytila.

Raven Chacon's Voiceless Mass has won the Pulitzer Prize for music.

Music & Culture

Meet Raven Chacon, the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music

1:36pm May 10, 2022

by Tom Huizenga

A composer, performer and installation artist from the Navajo Nation, Chacon's winning piece, Voiceless Mass, was composed for chamber orchestra and a specific Milwaukee pipe organ.

The hip-hop visionary and Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper is back.

Music & Culture

Kendrick Lamar returns, 5 years later and a world away

1:25pm May 10, 2022

The Pulitzer-winning rapper has returned with his first solo release since 2017's DAMN.

Indian musician and composer Shivkumar Sharman playing a concert in Pune, India, in 2009. Sharma died Tuesday at age 84.

Celebrated Indian musician and composer Shivkumar Sharma has died at age 84

11:19am May 10, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Reverentially known as Pandit ("teacher"), Shivkumar Sharma took the hammered dulcimer from humble folk instrument to classical concert stages around the world. He died Tuesday in Mumbai.

Kendrick Lamar, in a still from the video for "The Heart Part 5."

Music & Culture

Kendrick Lamar, 'The Heart Part 5'

10:30am May 10, 2022

by Tarik Moody

Each release in the "Heart" song series has signaled both an imminent new project and a new artistic beginning for Lamar.

Pocket Queen & The Royal Flush performing its Tiny Desk Contest entry, "WE CAME TO MOVE"

Music & Culture

2022 Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Love: Jazz Night in America Edition

10:28am May 10, 2022

by Mitra I. Arthur

The Jazz Night in America team highlights a selection of 2022 entries that caught our ears and displays the expanse of what jazz has to offer.

2022 Pulitzer Prizes in arts and letters go to 'Fat Ham' and 'The Netenyahus'

5:30pm May 09, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes in fiction, poetry, drama and other categories in arts and letters were announced in New York along with awards for journalism.

Queue Listen Now