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Session musician Stephen Bruner has played bass in other people's bands for more than a decade. He can play metal, R&B, hip-hop, jazz. With his second album, he's stepping to the front of the stage.

NPR's Miles Parks speaks to the members of indie supergroup boygenius about its new full-length album, the record.

Crudup stars as a fast-talking salesman in the retro-futurist Apple TV+ series Hello Tomorrow! He won an Emmy for his role as a cynical TV executive in the series The Morning Show.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to husband-and-wife duo Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff from the band, Nefesh Mountain, about their latest album, "Beacons."

The longtime bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers has his first solo album. "I'm making music that occupies its own place in the world and that feels that's good to me," Flea says of Honora.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to singer Eli "Paperboy" Reed and his father Howard Husock about the late blues musician Fred Davis and releasing his lost album "Cleveland Blues."

Jazz singer José James talks about his new R&B crossover album 1978, which was inspired by the 1970s output of artists like Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Rick James.

Dusty Henry of KEXP's 50 Years of Hip Hop podcast explores a groundbreaking innovation by 12-year-old Theodore Livingston, aka Grand Wizzard Theodore.

Frishberg's playful songs include "Peel Me a Grape" and "A Little Taste." To mark the publication of his new memoir, My Dear Departed Past, we listen back to a 1991 interview with the songwriter.

After Louis Armstrong reigned as King Zulu in 1949, musicians began writing music specifically for and about Mardi Gras. These early songs paved the way for the sounds of Carnival for decades to come.