As rising premiums have led 5 million people to drop their Affordable Care Act plans, a program in Austin has held steady and could be a model a potential model for other cities hoping to make health care more affordable for key populations and key industries like music or food.

Lead singer Greg Dulli talks about making trumpet sounds with his mouth and being inspired by his car insurance company.

Robert Burns, who has relied on Muni for years, uses digital instruments to turn live transit data into music.

Marsh, who died Aug. 14, was one of rock's most influential voices. He edited The Rolling Stone Record Guide and wrote profiles of Bruce Springsteen and The Who. Originally broadcast in 1997.

Jurors on Thursday heard Duane "Keffe D" Davis tell detectives in 2008 that his nephew Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson fired the shots that killed Tupac Shakur.

We showcase a new generation of artists with swag: Alex Isley, Madison McFerrin and Ravi Coltrane. All three of these Tiny Desks feature folks who come from legendary musical families. Look for Tiny Desk Radio on your local NPR station.

Taja Cheek's psychedelic project L'Rain has always been tagged as experimental. On fata morgana, she asks what separates music like hers from the mainstream.

"Weird Al" Yankovic returns to the Tiny Desk with a couple parodies, a Weezer pastiche and the Emmy-losing closing-credits blues-rock jam to Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

There's a reason why the escapist hit from singer Aitana has swept most of the Spanish-language world.

AI can generate songs in seconds. But behind every AI track is a complicated question: Who should get paid? And, how? The fights have started.

With a focus on music from Early Romantic Era composers, the show - Blossoming into Romanticism - now airs each Thursday at 4:00pm.

"Opera Shop" host Darren Hellwege talks with Matt Haney, who is directing two performances of Puccini's La Boheme with the Ozarks Lyric Opera in Springfield next weekend. https://ozarkslyricopera.com/la-boheme

"Opera Shop" host Darren Hellwege visits with some of the talented young people bringing a production of Gian Carlo Menoti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" to Columbia. The production will be Dec. 5th and 6th at First Baptist Church of Columbia. Our guests are Molly Symmonds (Ahmal) Kennedy Kinnick (mother) and Carter Thiemann, who is the pianist.

Darren Hellwege, host of The Opera Shop, talks with Greg Campbell of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City about their run of "Madame Butterfly," this Friday through Sunday at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Lyric Opera of Kansas City

Darren Hellwege, host of The Opera Shop, talks with Anh Le of Opera Theatre of St. Louis about fall events with OTSL and how she discovered her love for opera through our public broadcasting colleagues.