Cap-Haïtien came alive for the 222nd anniversary of the Bataille de Vertières, with fanfare bands, student celebrations and a powerful mass calling for justice for murdered Haitian public figures.

NPR Music's Ann Powers and Sheldon Pearce are your guides to this week's most compelling new musical offerings. For October 18, their selections include an array of ambitious, melodic and emotional ...

NPR Music's Daoud Tyler-Ameen and Ann Powers are your guides to the last big New Music Friday of 2024, including the first solo album released by Kim Deal, who was a member of Pixies, the leader of ...

Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to ...