A slow-moving chart this week graduates three tracks into the Chart Show Hall of Fame. Japanese Breakfast, Leon Bridges, and Garbage all hit ten weeks on the chart with four more songs poised to reach HOF status next week.

Mary Lucia says Spike Lee's HBO documentary series gives you as close an answer to why and how events in 2020 unfolded the way they did.

We caught up with Soul Asylum frontman Dave Pirner about performing in the age of Covid, and what it felt like to hear Prince covering "Stand Up And Be Strong," which appears on the posthumous Prince album 'Welcome to America'.

One of New Wave's founding fathers, Ric Ocasek of the Cars died on this day in 2019 at the age of 75. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what New Wave bands do you want to hear?

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After adapting to welcome Covid-era audiences with drive-in concerts and other innovations, Crooners Supper Club is expanding its live music programming to include musical revues. A venerable tradition, revues incorporate songs into story-oriented frameworks that draw on performers’ acting skills as well as their musical chops. With that in mind, Crooners could hardly have a…

Diane is the new host of 'The Local Show,' and we're so glad to have her. Enjoy this sampler of Diane's favorite tracks!

On Amy Winehouse's birthday, we remember her for her music and how she blended her deep vocals and an eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul, rhythm and blues, jazz, and reggae, to create her own special version of neo-soul. For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what neo-soul artists do you want to hear?

Picking one winner from thousands of amazing entries wasn't easy. But one singer-songwriter rose to the top, with a song about rooting yourself in nature that stopped our judges in their tracks.

A founder of the Newport Folk Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival -- and perhaps the most important jazz impresario of all time -- died Monday.