Three classic rock bands from the 1970s fully embraced synthesizers in the 1980s and recorded career-defining hits.

On the last episode of All Songs Considered for 2025, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich takes host Robin Hilton through an exceptional year in guitar music. From Gwenifer Raymond's beautiful and brash ...

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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. When Michael Charles was asked what the odds were that he would perform on the same date at the same ...

The blues is more than a genre: it’s the raw, unfiltered voice of human emotion. Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of African American communities in the Deep South, blues music ...

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In 1950, famed astrophysicist Enrico Fermi posed a profound question during a casual lunch with colleagues: Where is everybody? In other words, if there’s an extremely high probability that advanced ...

You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at the most interesting moments in the cultural Zeitgeist. Marcus Brown’s voice is a crooner’s voice, a baritone, emanating notes from some ...

Looking back on the last six months, it feels like 2025 might be remembered as a turning point for music in the 2020s. Every decade has a year like this, where you can see in real time one generation ...

Listening to Alien Boy is like experiencing high-stakes romance on a molecular level. Every wispy, nasal romantic plea and rumble of succulent anglophile jangle courses through your veins like you’re ...

If Luther Keith decided he was going to do something, then that something was going to get done. Insert period here. And if you were in the way once Luther got going? Not advisable. Luther Keith and I ...

Not many filmmakers have such a unique style as to become an adjective, but David Lynch was one of them. His uncanny, dream-inspired style extended beyond film, too. If music is described as “Lynchian ...