Today in Music History for Dec. 8: In 1865, Finnish composer Jan Sibelius was born. A romantic composer, his works express an intense, mystical love of nature. Sibelius is best known for his ...

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From breakout Brooklyn band Geese to Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny and dozens in between, NPR Music shares its picks for the ...

From the return of pop's reigning kook to a sprawling love letter to Puerto Rico, here are our favorite records of the year.

Have you ever just had your world absolutely reordered because of a piece of music? If you consider yourself a devout music fan, then you surely have, and one genre that seemingly tends to lead to ...

Lou Reed and John Cale had been up late doing methamphetamine, or crank, as they say. So they visited Reed’s college friend at three in the morning, but the college friend’s wife didn’t appreciate the ...

He was held hostage by Hamas terrorists for more than 500 days. He thought he saw his girlfriend die in front of him. Both survived and spoke Wednesday night at an exhibit that remembers all of those ...

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 ...

Jones was no stranger to Grammy trophies, winning a total of 28 out of his staggering 80 nominations. This photo is from the ...

While the popularity of most bands and musical artists tends to wax and wane over the years, there are some groups that never go out of style...for example, The Beatles. Over half a century since the ...