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The traditional music known as taarab was fading away — until a school began giving lessons to aspiring musicians.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Michelle Zauner, a musician who performs under the name Japanese Breakfast, about her memoir, Crying in H Mart. It's an exploration of grief, food and identity.

The Kendrick Lamar song turned protest chant against police violence identifies a daily balancing act: There is hope, and there is despair. There's the ideal world, and there's the real one.

Three new women have come forward with charges of sexual assault against the Alabama GOP Senate candidate. One told the Post that Moore forcefully kissed her when she was a high school student.

In the wake of "Despacito," Louie Perez of Los Lobos shares what his band did after its own Spanish-language No. 1 song, released 30 years ago.

The pop singer's new R&B-influenced album, Tell Me You Love Me, reflects her struggles with mental illness and addiction and her newfound empowerment.

The show's plot and very existence provoke larger questions around race, representation and casting.

The pandemic forced this years conventions to go virtual. That won't be the end of the change, as future gatherings shift from the age of television to the world of social media and viral moments.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with reporter Taylor Lorenz about a troubling trend among some young social media users: the self-diagnosis of mental health issues.

User-generated content specific to TikTok has propelled songs old and new to viral success. That's left the record labels looking to the app for their next stars.