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  • Buckwheat Zydeco Lays His 'Burden Down'
    For 30 years, the go-to guy for zydeco music has been Stanley Dural Jr., better known as Buckwheat Zydeco. In addition to featuring his own songs, his new album Lay Your Burden Down features songs by an eclectic group, from Bruce Springsteen to Jimmy Cliff to Captain Beefheart.
  • Summer Road Trip: Songs For Speed And Spirit
    Critic Tom Moon assembles a playlist for summertime driving that makes the miles whiz by, with some intense songs for staying alert during the day and chill-out tunes to renew the spirit in the evening, when you still have hours more to go.
  • Hot Chip Brings Romance To The Dance Floor
    Music critic Ken Tucker reviews a refreshingly earnest and seductive new album from British dance act Hot Chip. In it, the group embraces its taste for techno, soul and gospel while also paying homage to the great American songwriters of the '60s and '70s.
  • tUnE-yArDs: Low-Fi And Beautiful 'Brains'
    Merrill Garbus is a ukulele-playing Smith College graduate with a long musical history in folk-based projects. Her recordings under the name tUnE-yArDs reflect her study abroad in Kenya, her work in puppet theater and her experience as a nanny on Martha's Vineyard.
  • Robert Randolph: A Gospel Guitarist's Secular 'Road'
    Randolph emerged from a gospel music tradition, playing steel guitar in the so-called "sacred steel" style of some African-American Pentecostal churches. Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews his new album, We Walk This Road, which features original tunes and covers of songs by Bob Dylan, Prince and John Lennon.
  • The view from Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The mountain is the tallest peak in the park and sits on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. It's sacred to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who hope to see the name of the mountain changed to Kuwahi, which their ancestors called the mountain for hundreds of years.
    Cherokee tribe supports renaming Clingmans Dome in Smoky Mountains National Park
    The Cherokee Indians referred to the mountain as Kuwahi for hundreds of years, long before it was dubbed Clingmans Dome in 1859.
  • Reporters Gather For White House Correspondents' Dinner
    President Trump was the first president in 36 years to skip the White House correspondents' dinner, but the show went on without him.
  • New York University researchers led by Pascal Wallisch, a professor at the University's Center for Data Science, investigated why people love and hate different music and found that they typically know if they like a song within seconds of listening.
    You've heard of love at first sight. How about love at first sound?
    Researchers at NYU have conducted a study on how long it takes for people to decide whether they love or hate a song.
  • Over 400 musicians participated in this 2003 TubaChristmas event in Chicago.
    At TubaChristmas, An Underdog Instrument Shines
    The event now gathers musicians across the U.S. and in several countries abroad. It all started in December 1974, when a tuba enthusiast organized a concert of about 300 tubas in Rockefeller Plaza.
  • Bono and The Edge: Tiny Desk Concert
    It's hard to overstate the kindness and good-natured humor the U2 singer and guitarist brought to this set, where they performed reimagined songs from All That You Can't Leave Behind.
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