NPR Music's 2025 Tiny Desk Contest just wrapped up its nationwide tour with winner Ruby Ibarra, a rapper from the Bay Area. Meanwhile, our judges also discovered tons of great new musicians through ...

Their first release in over 14 years, Forever, I’ve Been Being Born, finds Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter dealing with ...

Roger McGuinn isn't living in the past as much as he's reviving it. While some of his musical contemporaries are stuck in the 1960s, replaying music they made more than 30 years ago, McGuinn is going ...

3:02 p.m. March 3, 2023: A previous version of David Lindley’s obituary misstated his age. He was 78. David Lindley, a multitalented guitarist who was a fixture in Los Angeles recording studios during ...

Despite decidedly left-of-center beginnings—on his own ECM discs Rambler (1985) and Lookout for Hope (1988), and in collaboration with artists including Jan Garbarek and John Zorn—guitarist Bill ...

Iris DeMent was one of the most distinctive voices in the 1990s—a lyricist who inspired John Prine to write the liner notes for her 1992 debut album and a vocalist who inspired Merle Haggard to say, ...

Folk and blues guitarist “Spider” John Koerner, who is best known for mentoring singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, died Saturday at the age of 85. His son, Chris Kalmbach, announced the news on Facebook.

David Lindley, a multitalented guitarist who was a fixture in Los Angeles recording studios during the 1970s and ’80s, died on Friday. He was 78. A source close to Lindley confirmed his death to The ...

It is tough being an independent musician these days, but every year, NPR Music's Tiny Desk makes dreams come true for at least one new artist through the Tiny Desk Contest. Thousands enter, and only ...