If you drive to work every day, you know that it’s not accurate to call it ‘driving’ so much as “sitting in pokey, stop-and-go traffic for over an hour in what should be a 15-minute commute.” When ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. If you've been watching the Apple TV+ series "Bad Monkey," you've heard some great covers of Tom Petty songs, like this one. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I WON'T BACK DOWN ...

Belinda Carlisle. Photo Credit: Albert Sanchez. Belinda Carlisle. Photo Credit: Albert Sanchez. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Belinda Carlisle released her new solo single and music video for “The Air ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with drummer and composer Louis Cole about the new sounds he brought to his latest album. When Louis Cole was a kid, he seemed to have rhythm bursting out of his brain - ...

Barry Hansen, mostly known by his D.J. name, said he’d end his show’s run after 55 years of playing parody songs. His syndicated show was once heard on more than 150 radio stations. By Adeel Hassan ...

Ten tastemakers (and two staffers) weigh in on the season’s signature tracks. By Joe Coscarelli and Jon Caramanica Don’t let anyone — even this very newsletter — tell you differently: The last day of ...

It is a jam-packed weekend of festivities in the Northland, and one of the events headlining the start of August is the 10th Annual City on the Hill Music Festival. Down at Bayfront Festival Park, the ...

As summer slowly melts into fall, the songs that defined the warmer months are coming into clearer view. An announcement on Aug. 27 from Spotify named five songs of the summer, hand-selected by the ...

A Tuxedo cat poses for the camera while wearing a cute bow-tie. There are a million funny takes on the legendary Phil Collins' hit song, "In the Air Tonight." One of the most notable is a scene in The ...