Chicago blues great Billy Branch says a concert in Grant Park got him hooked on the music many decades ago. His latest album is “The Blues is My Biography.” ...

The blues world was changed forever on a sunny day around 1960 when a little boy walked into a five-and-dime in Los Angeles. ...

What looks like a ruined patch of forest quickly turns into a frozen record of the Third Reich’s collapse as abandoned gear, ...

Author Margena A. Christian revisits the legacy of Sylvia Moy, the Motown trailblazer behind classics by Stevie Wonder.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with lead vocalist/guitarist/harmonica player Patton Magee and pianist/vocalist Don Merrill of The Nude Party about the band's fourth record, "Look Who's Back." ...

Tacoma band The Kimball Superstars, led by Tacoma’s resident record-store cowboy, created the album with vinyl in mind.

Ryan Coogler's vampire drama 'Sinners' has the most Oscar nominations in film history, with a whopping 16 nods ...

Sinners” is already a winner for putting the spotlight on the blues and at least three Louisiana musicians who shaped the sound. Much of the vampire thriller is set in Southern juke joints of the ...

The singer-songwriter and producer has had one of the more distinguished and multifaceted careers in modern music. He talks about following an unconventional path from Tony! Toni! Toné! to Sinners.

With his acclaimed interpretations of Delta Blues standards, he was a fixture on the Greenwich Village music scene for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s Love Rocks NYC benefit is as star-studded as ever, with headliners Paul Simon, Mary J. Blige and Elvis Costello, and hosts that include Whoopi Goldberg and Julianne Moore.

Meyers was known for his work with Doug Sahm and the Texas Tornados. He also wrote the "national anthem of San Antonio." ...