Last fall, English singer-songwriter Kate Nash was crunching numbers in between her North American and European tours when she realized she was "essentially going into debt" touring her latest album, ...

I am an inveterate list maker. Books, flights, podcasts, TV shows. I write them down, tiny morsels of a life — each entry triggering a small memory or a flicker of a moment long-passed. More than 20 ...

Commentary: Listening to music in the living room helped us learn more about each other—and started a new holiday tradition.

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, Tiny Desk exclusives, listening recommendations and more. Last week, as I mindlessly scrolled ...

The Grammy winner is certainly doing something right, as he's on a sold-out arena tour and has sold more than 30 million records Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has ...

Quincy Jones, who expanded the American songbook as a musician, composer and producer and shaped some of the biggest stars and most memorable songs in the second half of the 20th century, has died. He ...

The cultural influence and importance of Quincy Delight Jones Jr. cannot be overstated. As one of the most significant artists in any discipline of the last century, Jones, who died Sunday at 91, had ...

Oct. 2—GRANITE FALLS, Minn. — He may not be quite as well-known, but Verlyn Kling deservedly belongs in the company of musical performers including Willie Nelson, Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger. At ...

Next month, a new musician biopic will arrive in theaters. It’s called Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and it’s about the making of The Boss’ 1982 classic LP Nebraska. Like many Bruce fans, I ...

To animals, music is nothing more than a collection of nonsensical noises, while the human mind has a unique ability to understand and compose music. It has long served as an integral aspect of human ...