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It was a banner year for the acoustic guitar. NPR Music partner Folk Alley presents the best the genre had to offer.

On the June 4, 2017 edition of Work with Marty Nemko, I talk with (interesting) musicologist Robert Greenberg about what it's really like to be a…

A young Air Force captain thought his career was over. Instead, he was invited to join a stealth program — and told, "You've got 30 seconds and if you don't say yes, this conversation never happened."

Jason Isbell's Southeastern, Kanye West's Yeezus and an assortment of remarkable women dominated the Fresh Air critic's year in listening.

The best albums of 2013 stand as album-length statements rather than mere collections of good songs. Each captures a powerful songwriting voice and, just as important, a central philosophy.

The co-host for NPR Music's All Songs Considered shares the albums he returned to the most in 2013.

On June 16, 2016, Kamau Right Now! broadcast live from the Starline Social Club in Oakland. Host W. Kamau Bell was joined by comedian Karinda Dobbins, 99%…

On the June 4, 2017 edition of Work with Marty Nemko, I talk with (interesting) musicologist Robert Greenberg about what it's really like to be a…

The host of All Songs Considered shares the albums he loved this year. Many of Bob Boilen's favorite albums of 2013 were danceable. Many were intimate. Some managed to be both at once.

Folk revivalists like Devendra Banhart and the Elephant Six bands have headed up a rebirth of '60s psychedelia in millennial indie rock. D.C.-based band Nethers crafts its own brand of stripped-down psychedelia, taking acoustic freak-folk and distilling it down to a minimalist sound that pairs feedback and white noise with vibrant indie pop. It's no surprise, then, that the band brought on Los Angeles producer Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Dinosaur Jr., Silver Jews) to record its new album, What the Wind Will Never Say.

The Trump administration is seeking to reinstate a ban on travel to the U.S. from six majority-Muslim countries. The ban's challengers will have until June 12 to respond to the government's petition.

Beijing's intellectual property authorities have ruled that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus too closely resemble a smartphone by the Chinese company Shenzhen Baili.