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Music festivals are canceling their events like maybe never before. Call it the music festival recession.

With the 2017-18 season of Saturday Night Live now a wrap, we consider all 21 musical guests from this year — from worst to best. Apologies in advance to Sam Smith.

President Obama tells NPR in a new interview that the U.S. response to Russia's attempted interference in the 2016 election may be both "explicit" and not.

Russians celebrate Victory Day on Monday, May 9. The annual event marks the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, but it has taken on added importance this year because of Ukraine.

The iconic and barrier-breaking performer died Tuesday of congestive heart failure.

Joker is a psychological character study of a disturbed man who turns violent. To give the comic book villain human depth, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir had to dig deep and empathize with the character.

Hip-hop artist Jay Electronica has finally dropped his debut album, A Written Testimony. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with music writer Kiana Fitzgerald about a release over 10 years in the making.

The class of 2020 is stepping out into an utterly transformed world.

In a statement, Knight failed to balm an increasingly pronounced cultural rift that's come to dominate the conversation around this year's big game.

Boston-based percussionist Matt Sharrock performs Time-Lapse, a concert of new music for solo vibraphone and electronics that explore in sound what it means for one person to speak – literally or figuratively – in a world that may or may not be listening.