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Leave it to rap's reigning iconoclast to release a summertime album full of bops and cognitive dissonance in the dead of fall.

TLC's 1999 smash was a song women loved about the men they wouldn't put up with. Two decades later, fans still take its message to heart when scrubs run amok.

Ulama is a pre-Columbian team sport played with a solid rubber ball that's bounced off players' hips. In olden times, the game is said to have decided the winners of wars.

NPR Music remembers musicians — singers, songwriters, instrumentalists — and other visionaries we lost in 2015. Explore and celebrate their musical legacies.

This week's Heat Check selects come largely from iconoclasts who have already zeroed in on their individual aesthetics: a singsong rap soulman, an alté sensation a noise-rap radical and more.

An unemployed cabinet maker robs the local art museum — then finds himself plunged into a world of cops and gangsters and life on the run. The Mastermind is a sad movie that gets stronger as it goes.

It’s a familiar story in rural America. Four years ago the Pemiscot County hospital, the lone public hospital in Missouri’s poorest county, nearly...

Yes I know the tragedy killed people in Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. But then, there's New York. It's the capital of the world, in my opinion. My…

In a conversation with Norman Lebrecht, (available here for five more days) the respected director of the Mariinsky Theatre (and conductor of many…

ProMusica cellists Marc Moskovitz, Cora Kuyvenhoven, Nathaniel Chaitkin and Joel Becktell will be in the Classical 101 studios with Boyce Lancaster this…