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Reed died in 2013. A new collection, recorded in 1965, captures the earliest-known versions of some of the Velvet Underground's best known songs, including "Heroin" and "Pale Blue Eyes."

At 70, Esteban "Steve" Jordan is a legend of Tejano music -- an illiterate, eye-patch-wearing, hard-knock prodigy of the button accordion. Even as liver cancer encroaches, he's still preparing to issue nine CDs' worth of unreleased material.

The composer is at the forefront of a movement to capture the sound of the new Britain — a place that's home to a young generation with roots in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Nitin Sawhney's latest album is called London Undersound.

For nearly a century, jazz musicians have debated what gives songs that propulsive, groovy feel that makes you want to move with the music. The secret may lie in subtle nuances in a soloist's timing.

The singer-songwriter's fifth album is an ecosystem of intimacy, in its power to redeem and to destroy.

Conductor John Mauceri's latest album is filled with renditions of the most-chilling music from Alfred Hitchcock's films. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon.

You won't get a full picture of Prince from this book, but it does manage to pierce through some of the mystery the renowned artist purposely cultivated around and about himself.

People are consulting weather apps, donning rain gear and downing electrolytes in a quest to enjoy the 100 days between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

We asked our panel of public radio writers one question: What is your favorite album of 2019 so far? There were so many ways to answer.

Almost a year after rapper Takeoff, of the music trio Migos, was shot and killed, Quavo, his band mate and uncle, travels to Washington, D.C., to discuss gun violence prevention.