Peplowski, who died Feb. 2, started playing clarinet professionally at age 10 and went on to perform with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and to record on his own. Originally broadcast July 7, 1999.

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August Ponthier. Brent Faiyaz. Jill Scott's first album in more than a decade. NPR Music's Stephen Thompson is joined by ...

This week’s Indie Basement Classic is a DC shoegaze/indiepop gem from 1994 that has just gotten the deluxe reissue treatment.

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For his self-proclaimed final album, the North Carolina rapper showed up at Howard University as part of his Trunk Sale Tour.

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Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present.

Here's where you can unlock all of the soundtrack CDs in Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties.

It’s been a long wait. More than five years have passed since Maria Schneider’s most recent "magnum opus", the double album ...

I’m writing this during the so-called “Polar Vortex.” It’s 2 below outside and schools are closed. I love these little periods of what I consider normal, old-time winter weather — it reminds me of the ...