Three bright spots in a record industry that continued to dim in 2014: digital streaming, old-fashioned vinyl and the human supernova known as Taylor Swift. Overall album sales fell 11% last year to ...

How will we remember the music of 2014? All Songs Considered starts off NPR Music's year-end coverage by discussing themes that surfaced again and again: new discoveries, best live shows, saddest ...

Was the music of 2014 heavier than usual, or is it just us? When the staff of NPR Music and our member station partners gather to collect our favorite albums of the year, we don't start out with a ...

"I can't wait to do music hopefully forever" By Joe Lynch, Billboard Ariana Grande, in a black-lace gown, took the stage for piano-accompanied renditions of "Problem" and "Break Free," and was then ...

On the fringes of 2014, Ben Frost made suffocating electronic noise that was greeted like an expressionist rock records, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith continued his role as jazz's longform boundary ...