Guitarist and composer Halvorson arrived on the jazz scene in the mid 2000s with a virtuosity that commanded attention. Her current sextet, called Amaryllis, features a stellar cast of musicians.

The king of dancehall powers through a decades-spanning set of club classics behind the Tiny Desk.

Haim leaves it all behind. Hotline TNT turns it up to 11. Yaya Bey threatens fear with a good time. World Cafe host Raina Douris joins Stephen Thompson to discuss their favorite albums out today.

A new hip-hop album takes us inside the Florida prison system – featuring fifteen artists in correctional facilities across the state.

NPR's World Cafe is rethinking the tunes that define Pride Month.

Brendel was widely praised for his cerebral, lucid interpretations of standard classical repertoire, including recordings of sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven.

Nezza said the Dodgers wanted her to sing in English. But she said she decided to perform the Spanish version because she felt it was her "duty to represent my people."

"Manchild," the first single from Sabrina Carpenter's forthcoming album, Man's Best Friend, enters this week's Hot 100 singles chart at No. 1, making a late-breaking bid for "song of the summer" status in the process.

Singer Nezza made headlines for singing the National Anthem in Spanish at a Los Angeles Dodgers game.

It's a great day when your favorite artist releases a new record. But what if they released seven new records at once, full of music you didn't even know existed? That's what Bruce Springsteen is doing on his forthcoming box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums.

The super-producer whose beats moved the boundaries of Top 40 radio is chasing a new revolution: digital superstars and the erasure of artistic process as we know it.

Stanley Clarke and his band 4EVER perform a locked-in set of classics from the bassist's catalog while also giving them new life.