NPR’s latest on the music scene
What can robots teach us about humanity and about love? This musical, starring Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen, tries to understand what it means to actually live.
Posted: March 5, 2026, 10:00 am
Now that it is becoming harder and harder to get a ticket to your favorite artist's show, watching indirectly is becoming a popular compromise. What is gained and lost in a tiered concert hierarchy?
Posted: March 4, 2026, 5:15 pm
There have been so many extraordinary iterations of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers that some remarkable editions have been overlooked — including Strasbourg 82, a newly discovered concert album.
Posted: March 4, 2026, 4:36 pm
Understanding one of the world's oldest civilizations can't be achieved through a single film or book. But recent works of literature, journalism, music and film by Iranians are a powerful starting point.
Posted: March 3, 2026, 9:02 pm
She may be indie rock's queen of precisely rendered emotion, but on Mitski's latest album, Nothing's About to Happen to Me, warped perspectives, questionable motives and possible hauntings abound.
Posted: March 3, 2026, 7:08 pm
On Tuesday opening statements will begin for the federal antitrust trial against Live Nation, one of the largest entertainment companies in the world.
Posted: March 3, 2026, 4:49 pm
One of the most influential groups in hip-hop honors its legacy and the late Trugoy the Dove with a set of classics and new material.
Posted: March 3, 2026, 10:00 am
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Raina Douris, host of World Cafe at member station WXPN, about Mitski's new album, Nothing's About to Happen to Me.
Posted: February 27, 2026, 11:09 pm
While previous documentaries captured the frenzy of Beatlemania, Man on the Run focuses on McCartney in the years between the band's breakup and John Lennon's death.
Posted: February 27, 2026, 5:15 pm
The new movie is made up of footage originally shot in the early 1970s, which Luhrmann found in storage in a Kansas salt mine.
Posted: February 27, 2026, 12:00 pm