Music

May 24, 2018

Singer Angélique Kidjo on her new Talking Heads cover album.

Charles Mingus toilet trained his cat. We put his method to the test.

May 17, 2018

Crazy or brilliant? Jazz legend Charles Mingus came up with a method for toilet training his cat, so we tried it out on a kitty named Dizzy.

Arts, Culture & Media

Who’s a good audience? You are! Yes, you are!

Studio 360

May 17, 2018

Multimedia artist Laurie Anderson performs concerts for the most loyal fans of all — dogs.

Music

Bangladeshi rappers wield rhymes as a weapon, with Tupac as their guide

The Conversation

May 15, 2018

There is another story about youthful anger in Bangladesh. No, not radicalization. It’s the story of hip-hop.

Future Folk

A Mother's Day to end all wars

PRI's The World

May 11, 2018

If you haven’t heard, Mother’s Day is this weekend.

Music

In the 1930s, an ethnomusicologist tried to preserve the history of immigration in California — and combat anti-immigrant feelings — with song

PRI's The World

April 27, 2018

A new project is building on that collection, but this time with a much more inclusive catalog.

Music

What made Wes Montgomery a legend

Studio 360

April 26, 2018

How the jazz great ditched guitar picks and created a masterpiece.

Music

Can music improve your health?

Innovation Hub

April 23, 2018

It pumps us up when we’re at the gym, we dance to it at weddings and we sing along with it at concerts. But can music surround us with positive memories in our old age?

Music

South Korea switches off propaganda broadcasts

Reuters

April 23, 2018

South Korea halted the propaganda broadcasts it blares across the border with North Korea on Monday, aiming to set a positive tone ahead of the first summit in a decade between their leaders as the US president cautioned the nuclear crisis was far from resolved.

Arts

Avicii, Swedish electronic dance music artist and DJ, dead at 28

Reuters

April 21, 2018

Swedish DJ and record producer Avicii, one of the biggest stars of EDM, was found dead on Friday at the age of 28, his US publicist said.