Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music's podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and ...

On March 9, 2026, in Jiangxi, China, a security camera captured a funny and adorable moment involving four cats inside a house. In the video, one of the cats climbs onto a guzheng, a traditional ...

CHARLOTTE – Charlotte Mechanical and Vera Guitars collaborated to donate more than two dozen instruments to support music education in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

An indoor music event will debut on the outskirts of Whitefish this weekend as community favorites gather to perform in support of a new nonprofit geared toward covering local musicians’ unexpected ...

Lage is one of the many players who have all given the five-string setup a go. As Collier reveals to Guitar World, he also once gave his guitar to Irish folk hero Wallace Bird and Coldplay frontman ...

Bill Callahan never needed to shout to be heard. From the tape-hiss and four-track fog of the early Smog cassettes to the ...

IT WAS A BRIGHT MORNING SUNDAY at Evergreen hills - the day San Jose Sikh Temple filled with the murmur of prayers. In a ...

Castle of Our Skins presented a performance lecture of Derrick Skye’s “American Mirror” String Quartet at Wellesley College ...

Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford and the American Classical Orchestra, New York City's leading period instrument orchestra, will present Genius, a chamber music concert at Carnegie Hall's ...

The Arcis Saxophone Quartet. Photo by Hilary Scott. Lenox — The Arcis Saxophone Quartet returns to Tanglewood’s Linde Center on Sunday, March 22, at 3 p.m., with “JSB:48,” a program that reimagines ...

If you have a trained ear-or just a strong sense of music and tone-it's easy to hear the difference between a cheap instrument and a well-made model built to resonate across the world's greatest ...