Chiki Kuruka with her husband Bien Baraza after the singer won the Best Artist – Eastern Africa Award at the Trace Music Awards. In an exclusive interview with the BDLife a year ago, singer-songwriter ...

D'Angelo, Roberta Flack, Ozzy Osbourne, and Brian Wilson were just some of the creative geniuses who died this past year ...

Jon Batiste's eyes lit up as he walked through the National Museum of African American Music to see his exhibit among legends ...

Blue Note Hawaii is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a January lineup that includes Josh and Iam Tatofi, The Carole King ...

“8 Lights” features a duduk, a double-reed woodwind instrument from Armenia. The group decided to use when they met a musician who played it. The sound of it evokes a desert feel.

Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae star whose lead role in the 1972 cult-movie sensation “The Harder They Come” helped introduce the pulsating island dance beat to a global audience, has died. He was 81 ...

STATEN ISLAND, NY -- The Slackers have sold out their December 18 Staten Island stop on the band’s Home for the Holidays 5 Boro NYC Tour 2025, with tickets vanishing days before the secret show ...

From pioneering reggae stars and legendary New Orleans musicians to buzzy shoegaze artists and Swedish metal, the CT music ...

The Local announces its Winter/Spring 2026 season, featuring global music, jazz standouts, and boundary-pushing performances in Saugerties.

We might not quite make it to the North Pole (yet), but Global Village is heading north this time for some Nordic fiddles. We’ll hear violinists from Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and music ...

From Sly Stone of the Family Stone to Ozzy Osbourne, we remember some of the musicians lost in 2025. A Martínez is one of the hosts of Morning Edition and Up First. He came to NPR in 2021 and is based ...