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The musical visionary led a multi-racial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early '70s.

Jazz critic Francis Davis says veteran musicians — particularly Wadada Leo Smith and Henry Threadgill — are making some of the most adventurous music of their careers.

The Icelandic composer talks about the creative forces behind her distinctive music, her presence in the movie Tár and the "dome of energy" that fuels her country's artistic productivity.

Slingshot, VuHaus public radio stations and NPR Music's emerging artist series, spotlighted 40 artists over the course of the past 10 months. Now it's time for you to tell us your favorite.

The KLF — Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty — were, and remain, unparalleled masters of both music and manipulation. The Austrians they inspired, however, are... a different story.

Pop singer Ari Gold was discovered while singing at his brother's bar-mitzvah at the tender age of five. The Bronx native opens up about being gay, his Orthodox Jewish background and his music.

Pop acts embraced the ukulele and the saxophone. Rock bands crafted weird, widescreen albums that still brimmed with solid, hummable songs. And a few notorious recluses returned to the public eye.

Women, guitar rock and New York dominate our listeners' musical landscape in this year's poll for 2017's best new artists (so far).

"Thinking 'Bout Somethin'" is a perfectly soul-infused pop song completed with cowbell, horns and belted-out harmonies. Like its video, the song sums up Hanson's modern-day persona as a band that's polished, charming and confident enough to delight in everything that came before it.

The electro-pop group performs some of its enduring classics at the Tiny Desk.