NPR's Michel Martin speaks with banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck and soprano Renée Fleming about their collaborative project and album, "The Fiddle and The Drum," which celebrates Appalachian folk music.

Songs of resistance is a community-led initiative dedicated to documenting, protecting, and reclaiming the handcrafted ...

She got it from her mama. It’s well known, and well-documented, that Dolly Parton grew up very poor (well, money-wise), in ...

All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs — how did we get here, and is there a way back? The new music market is actually shrinking. All the growth in the market is coming from ...

Miles Bonham, or "Miles the Music Kid", gained millions of views online for videos of him creating music. Bonham, who plays seven instruments, has garnered the attention of many big music names and is ...

Forgetting vocab? Is it the same old story each time you have an English conversation? Come and practise these phrases to ...

New research explores music's impact on learning, memory, and emotions in two studies. One reveals that familiar music can enhance concentration and learning, while the other demonstrates that music ...

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...

Justin Bieber's Coachella setlist features multiple of his iconic older hits why but he doesn't sing any of them in full? No one knew what to expect from Justin Bieber's Coachella headline performance ...

“I wish that I had Jessie’s girl / Where can I find a woman like that?” “Jessie’s Girl” was a massive hit for Rick Springfield in 1981. A power pop classic with a rock edge, this song was a No. 1 hit ...

Last year, Lamb’s Players Theatre had a big hit on its hands with “The ’70s! The Golden Age of the Album.” The musical celebration of the singers, groups, songs and concept albums of the 1970s played ...

Sometime in the mid-two-thousands, when people would still hand you cassette tapes or CDs at shows or in record stores or during hangouts in someone’s parents’ basement or smoke-filled apartment, I ...