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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Lynn McMurdie, a University of Washington professor and principal investigator for IMPACTS, NASA's new project to more accurately predict snowstorms.

The Grammy Award-winning group's self-titled album is packed with political messaging and brims with hope.

The keyboardist and singer was a co-founder of both the Meters and the Neville Brothers — bands that took the funk and swagger of New Orleans to a much larger world.

Bakersfield is a legendary country and honky-tonk music spot, and the birthplace of the “Bakersfield sound” defined by artists like Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. But the Central Valley city is also home to a reggae soul band called The Soul Chance. When record collectors first hear their music on vinyl, some assume the band is … Continue reading Bakersfield’s ‘The Soul Chance’ Goes Analog to Capture Retro Reggae Sound →

Where Manchester rock band WU LYF skirted a continuum of post-rock and art-rock, the new song by its former member is quite the opposite sound.

The 41st edition of Carnaval San Francisco is almost upon us. Most commonly associated with the parade down Mission Street on Sunday morning, the two-day celebration begins on Saturday with a free festival and concert, which this year will feature legendary band Los Tigres del Norte. Here is what you need to know about one of the … Continue reading Carnaval San Francisco 2019: What You Need to Know →

Bakersfield is a legendary country and honky-tonk music spot, and the birthplace of the “Bakersfield sound” defined by artists like Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. But the Central Valley city is also home to a reggae soul band called The Soul Chance. When record collectors first hear their music on vinyl, some assume the band is … Continue reading Bakersfield’s ‘The Soul Chance’ Goes Analog to Capture Retro Reggae Sound →

When they were in college, members of the pop music group Bishop Allen derived pleasure from hurling furniture off the roof of their apartment house. Now they're singing about it. Hear tracks from their debut CD, Charm School.

The South American music joropo often deals with horses and cowboys. The Colombian band Cimarrón has made the genre more inclusive by adding Indigenous and Afro-Colombian themes and sounds.

The Pine Leaf Boys, a twentysomething band from Lafayette, La., brings youthful energy to traditional Cajun music. The group stuck it out in the region after Hurricane Katrina by playing whatever clubs are open, and received a Grammy nomination for its second album, Blues de Musicien.