Why do they hate music? “Without music, life would be a mistake”. ~-Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1889) “Music is no different than opium. Music affects the human mind in a way that makes people ...

Having released her great debut LP, I’m Green, last year, Nashville singer/songwriter Mali Velasquez is on a headlining tour ahead of SXSW, Shaky Knees, and shows supporting A. Savage of Parquet ...

“Music in Mali” is a feature-length documentary that takes an in-depth look into West Africa’s country of Mali and the musical culture that formed from its ancient Manding Empire. Narrated by Danny ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The 9-track set was produced by Josef Kuhn (Samia, Annie DiRusso, Hannah Cole) and ...

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit ...

Inarguably, one of the greatest human rights leaders of our time is Harry Belafonte. Over the past weekend, he spoke on the celebrity panel at Amnesty International’s Art for Amnesty event to ...

African multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Touré had become a legend by the time he died in 2006. His music was used in a song for “Black Panther,” and he was thought of as a pioneer of African desert ...

Toumani Diabaté, who has died aged 58 after a short illness, was one of the finest African musicians of the past few decades; known as “the king of the kora”, he revelled in fusing his native music ...

NPR's Elizabeth Blair profiles Malian musician Salif Keita, one of the master's of the "world music" movement. Keita moved back to Mali recently after living and working in France for 16 years. His ...