Bobby Carter, host and series producer of NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts, pointed to three main components that make for a great performance. An artist must be comfortable performing live, captivating an ...

Watch Faye Webster perform songs from 'Under Dressed at the Symphony' and other highlights during her NPR Tiny Desk visit.

The 1964 hit "As Tears Go By," penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, made her a star, but Marianne Faithfull demonstrated ...

At Sunday night's Grammys, will Beyoncé finally win album of the year? Will Taylor Swift take that prize for the fifth time?

At Sunday night's Grammys, will Beyoncé finally win album of the year? Will Taylor Swift take that prize for the fifth time? Or will a new generation of pop stars claim the moment?

producing and mixing her own music, and championing messages and causes that weren't always popular or conventional when she was making a name for herself in the 1990s. So, it's fitting that a new ...

Eric Deggans is NPR's first full-time TV critic ... He originally joined the paper as its pop music critic in November 1995. He has worked at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey and both the ...

Since the station launched at 9:00 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2005, it has connected Minnesota to all kinds of music — old and new, popular and underrated, local and otherwise. It's also helped boost the ...

This year's Grammy Awards feature some not-so-new faces in the "Best New Artist" category. A Martinez speaks with NPR Music's Stephen Thompson about why that is and who's considered a "new" artist.

The British musician and actress Marianne Faithfull, an icon of London's fertile 1960s music scene, died Thursday at the age ...

The Weeknd has had so many hits, but this one crushed the pandemic-era pop charts — and the aforementioned Radio Songs — as it topped the Hot 100 for four weeks and lingered forever thereafter.

Is the love song dying? NPR's Juana Summers speaks David Mora and Michelle Jia about their recent essay in The Pudding, which set out to answer that question.