Producer Mark Ronson and singer Bruno Mars started their careers on opposite sides of the country and took different paths to ...

The year 2025 showed how powerful and global Filipino talent is across the highly competitive arenas of international music ...

Leon Thomas' MUTT blends Bootsy Collins-style funk with raw vulnerability. Read our review of the breakthrough track that ...

Sure, we've all seen Bruno Mars sing pop and R&B classics, but it turns out he's pretty good at rock, too. As for why all these A-list stars agreed to perform at some company party, Parade reports ...

For classical guitarist Sean Shibe, conventions and limitations are made to be broken. As expected, he plays Spanish standard repertoire and intricate Baroque tunes on his nylon-strung guitar as well ...

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...

Billy Strings made his NPR Tiny Desk debut performance on Wednesday (Dec. 10), but for the multi-talented musician, the performance marked the realizing of a long-held dream. At one point during his ...

Michigan native Billy Strings got the Tiny Desk Concert treatment this week on NPR's YouTube channel. Strings, now based in Nashville, Tennessee, is a west Michigan native. He grew up in Muir, a ...

At 7 a.m. Pacific Time on Jan. 13, 2026, NPR will open submissions for its 2026 Tiny Desk Contest. Musicians from all over the country are invited to compete for an opportunity to film a Tiny Desk ...

At long last, Billy Strings has taken his talents to NPR’s Tiny Desk. The maestro and his band, Alex Hargreaves (fiddle), Billy Failing (banjo, vocals), Royal Masat (bass, vocals), and Jarrod Walker ...

President Trump said Friday he had granted approval for “tiny cars” to be built in the United States, a move that would expand the availability of similar smaller vehicles that are popular in Asia. “I ...

Our staff's favorite albums from the year that was. Is pop now officially an albums-driven genre? The year 2025 made a strong argument for the answer being “yes.” Acclaimed sets from rising stars like ...