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  • The 24-year-old Norwegian recently set a record on Spotify, exceeding a billion streams faster than any artist before him — and his debut album isn't even out yet.
  • Whitney Houston died on Saturday at the age of 48. Her problems with drugs have been well documented. In her lifetime, she sold 170 million albums. Houston's most famous song is her rendition of a tune written by Dolly Parton, "I Will Always Love You."
  • Smith received her highest-profile endorsement when she covered Dolly Parton's iconic song "Jolene" for Just Because I'm a Woman, a Parton tribute album. The country icon began publicly singing Smith's praises, and the young singer's career took off from there. Hear Mindy Smith perform live in concert from WXPN and World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
  • The gifted songwriter and singer wasn't a born superstar — but became something of a sleeper hit on the strength of his singing, songwriting and history-making collaborations.
  • The regretful first song that the country singer-songwriter composed for his group's concept album about the end of a marriage now has a video.
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection briefly shut down its largest migrant processing center in South Texas after 32 migrants became ill with the flu.
  • January 19 is the 19th day of the year There are 347 days remaining until the end of 2016.The sun will rise in San Francisco at 7:22 AM and sunset will be…
  • It's Appreciate a Dragon Day!Today is Thursday, the 16th of January of 2020It is the 16th day of the year350 days remain until the end of the year63 days…
  • Nineteen states sued on Monday over the Trump administration's effort to alter a federal agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in…
  • NPR Music celebrates the alt-rock heroes, Hollywood idols, Pulitzer-winning composers, jazz luminaries, cult legends, bold activists, old masters and rising stars the world lost this year.
  • The Carolina Chocolate Drops singer's richly realized solo debut spans American music's history of communal uplift, individual outcry, happy collaboration and profitable theft.
  • At the turn of the millennium, Radiohead turned creeping melancholy and desolation into two albums that changed the band's career. Two decades later, maybe we've caught up to their prophetic vision.
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