T-Bone Walker may have been the first true hero of modern electric blues, but he stood upon the shoulders of jazz and blues ...

Kahumoku Jr. is a master of Hawaiian music, known for his work on slack key guitar and ukulele. Known as “Uncle George,” he’s ...

City of the Sun was joined by Australian indie folk artist Portair, whose stripped-down set featured only his electric guitar ...

Nearly 20 years after The Format broke up, they're back with "Boycott Heaven." It's a reunion built on the friendship between ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

We remember guitarist Bob Weir, founding member of the Grateful Dead, who died Saturday at 78. A Martínez is one of the hosts of Morning Edition and Up First. He came to NPR in 2021 and is based out ...

How DJ N1NJA transformed dyspraxia, identity, and adversity into a life of music, motorsport, and mindful creativity. The ...

Known as the Hot Club Holo Acoustic All Stars Gypsy Jazz Ensemble, the trio will perform music by the legendary Django Reinhardt, as well as Hot Club Swing standards, Bolero, Bossa and original music ...

It doesn’t make any sense. In a climactic moment of Oliver Laxe’s harrowing Spanish film “Sirât,” a group of ragtag survivors find themselves in the open desert in Northern Africa, grieving for the ...

Even the very best jazz guitarists rarely receive the attention and plaudits that the genre’s horn blowers – saxophonists and trumpeters, in particular – receive. Perhaps that’s because, traditionally ...

Alexis Mayberry · Community Music Center Audio Summary To most people, music is seen as something that is used for pleasure, ...

Willie Dixon was the undisputed Poet Laureate of post-war Chicago blues music. His undoubted talent as a wordsmith probably stemmed from the fact that, as a youngster growing up in Vicksburg, ...