Announcing WESA’s new podcast, "King," about a year in the life of a Pittsburgh Public school. As the debate about school closures raged on across the district, students and staff have had to carry on ...

Rolling Stone ranks the best Afropop songs of the year featuring Adekunle Gold, Rema, Moily, Theodora, Tyla, Davido, Bien, ...

Authorities in China’s Xinjiang region are threatening detention over downloading, sharing or listening to a wide range of ...

Authorities in China's Xinjiang region are threatening to detain residents over downloading, listening to and sharing ...

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

The band's music video for "Bohemian Rhapsody" has been viewed more than 2 billion times on YouTube. Arkansas to become first state to cut ties with PBS: 'Not feasible' Man’s realization about "High ...

Music Box: Happy and You Know It debuts Thursday, Dec. 25, on HBO and HBO Max Don Arnold/WireImage; Nickelodeon A new documentary is exploring the popularity of children's music The HBO Original ...

True longevity in hip-hop is rare, and in recent years, Nas has been showing the culture how it’s done. When the world shut down at the start of this decade, he opened up. COVID and pandemic be damned ...

Besh pede,” a popular Uyghur folk ballad, is among dozens of Uyghur-language songs that have been deemed “problematic” by Xinjiang authorities, according to a recording of a meeting held by police and ...

NPR listeners share the one song that hit them the hardest this year, and tell us why they laughed, cried, or simply couldn’t ...

In what’s now become a yearly tradition every December, I’m back ranking #1 hits from topical anniversary dates. This winter we’ll be doing 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015, and I’ll be ranking every ...