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NPR's Juana Summers revisits the year that was for Beyoncé and Swift, and talks to Miami University of Ohio Professor Tammy L. Kernodle about the tendency to pit successful women against each other.

More than 400 of the best songs of 2015, selected by NPR Music's dedicated listeners and crossing more than a dozen genres. And you can listen to every single one.

A Stradivarius violin, which was stolen and hidden for 35 years, has now been found. It belonged to the late virtuoso Roman Totenberg — the father of NPR's Nina Totenberg. Nina tells the story.

Ten years after Gulag Orkestar, the extravagantly arrayed breakthrough album he wrote as a teenager, Condon says he's finally learning how to be subtle.

The song Patria y Vida, or homeland and life, is a spin on the communist regime's decades-old slogan in Cuba of "patria o muerte" — homeland or death.

With songs about Anne Frank's final months at Bergen-Belsen, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea hardly seems like the stuff of high school theater. But with the aid of The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer, students in Lexington, Mass., have turned the seminal indie rock album into a surrealist production.

The ebullient nonagenarian's new recording features music she's been playing for nearly a century.

The soprano, known for her lustrous voice and irrepressible personality, has died. She's remembered for her roles on stage and as a successful, media-savvy arts administrator and advocate.

On the occasion of the legendary bassist's centennial, broadcaster and bass player Greg Bryant zeroes in on the legend's technical wizardry.

On his lushly produced third studio album, the Chicago rapper cycles through deep breaths amidst uncertainty and psyches himself up with much-needed reassurance.