MINNEAPOLIS — Maya Thin Elk ordered a mango smoothie and breakfast burrito at Pow Wow Grounds Coffee before going to the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center to pick up supplies for families ...

Saquon Barkley gave the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks advice for staying calm under pressure ahead of the Feb. 8 ...

Saquon Barkley gave the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks advice for staying calm under pressure ahead of the Feb. 8 ...

Lyrics of a song can reach us in ways that no other speech can. Some of our colleagues at NPR Music have been thinking about which lyrics from 2025 have moved them. RODNEY CARMICHAEL, BYLINE: Hey, I'm ...

Before he was the guy leading stadiums full of fans through the chorus of "Sweet Caroline," Neil Diamond was a kid in Brooklyn writing song lyrics while bored in class. Diamond's expansive songwriting ...

Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...

A sobriety pow wow is returning to Milwaukee on New Year's Eve after a more than five-year hiatus. The free, family-friendly event offers an alcohol-free space for the community, particularly for ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

In 2024, the song of the year was so undeniable and inescapable that we don’t even have to bother naming it. This year, the landscape is much trickier. Twenty twenty-five hasn’t produced a ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...

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