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Ari Shapiro speaks with host Maria Garcia, whose childhood on the U.S.-Mexico border informs the show's storytelling about the late queen of Tejano music. (Image credit: Illustration by Iliana Galvez/WBUR) ... read more

During an intense reckoning with the global climate crisis, Tamara Lindeman wrote much her new album. For her, the biggest takeaway was "to acknowledge that I could care this much and this deeply." (Image credit: Jeff Bierk/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more

The rising jazz flutist blends Afrofuturistic jazz and Haitian folk in a transfixing Tiny Desk quarantine concert for our Black History Month celebration. (Image credit: NPR) ... read more

After getting help with his addiction and while pausing for the pandemic, Langhorne Slim found songs — happy, sad, anxious, joyful — to be pouring out of him like deep breaths. (Image credit: Harvey Robinson/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more

The moves came after TMZ posted a video of the fast-rising country star using a racial slur. (Image credit: Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for CMA) ... read more

KUTX examines the impact of SXSW's absence from local venues this year. (Image credit: Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon/KUT News) ... read more

Jennifer Lopez's performance of "This Land Is Your Land" at last month's presidential inauguration ceremony has reignited conversations about the erasure of Native Americans in the iconic folk tune. (Image credit: John Springer Collection/Corbis via Getty Images) ... read more

2020 was set to be a fruitful year for the artist, full of travel and music. In her contribution to Morning Edition's Song Project, she faces the reality of that loss and finds hope in starting over. (Image credit: Claire Marie Vogel/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more

The jazz saxophonist and his quartet perform three songs that speak directly to the struggle and triumph of the Black experience for Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration. (Image credit: NPR) ... read more

Jazz Night visits the St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church, an evolving house of worship that has incorporated John Coltrane's A Love Supreme album as their chief liturgical text. (Image credit: /Mark Doox) ... read more

The political is personal for the nine-time Grammy winner. Watch him lead the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet through three songs from his Democracy! Suite. (Image credit: NPR) ... read more

The singer says she was offered the honor by the Trump administration but was unable to accept, first because her husband was ill and then because the pandemic made traveling to the ceremony unsafe. (Image credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images) ... read more

The electronic pop musician SOPHIE, known for her unique spin on underground dance music, died on Saturday after an accidental fall. She was 34 years old. ... read more

The LA-born and bred artist, alongside partner Thes One, influenced the sound of West Coast rap around the turn of the century. (Image credit: Rob Loud/Getty Images) ... read more

The Westworld actor alleged that Brian Warner, better known as industrial-rock musician Marilyn Manson, was her abuser, naming him for the first time in a statement posted to Instagram. (Image credit: Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images) ... read more