NPR's Scott Simon speaks to conductor Marin Alsop about presenting Julia Wolfe's "Her Story" and the resonance of that feminist piece at this moment.

The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades.

The iconic voices of female jazz & blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith were honored at Aretha's Jazz Café in Detroit for Black History Month

The Black Gospel Archive at Baylor University is the world's largest digital collection of gospel music. Now, it wants to collect oral histories around its rare recordings.

Hustler rappers like Gunn traffic in street tales that feel larger than life. That doesn't mean they're not "real."

For most of the '00s, Panda Bear helped define the sound of youthful, ramshackle indie rock. On Noah Lennox's eighth album, Sinister Grift, the artist focuses on the shifting relationships and faltering memories of midlife, with a fleshed out band behind him.

Marvin Sapp transforms our office into a sanctuary, performing an 11-song medley of gospel hits across his career.

Johan Grimonprez's film charts both the hopes and the tragedies of Africa's freedom movements in the shadow of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union and the U.S. jockey for influence in the "new world."

The crew was selected by Bezos' fiancée, journalist Lauren Sánchez, who will also be on the brief suborbital flight scheduled for this spring.

This year's race — which includes beloved stars, up-and-coming talents and a pair of songs from a successful but controversial musical — feels wide open. That doesn't mean all the songs are equally worthy.