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  • The Spotlight Shines Bright On A Consummate Sideman's Debut
    Benmont Tench has a reputation as the guy you want playing on your album — just ask Tom Petty, Bob Dylan or The Rolling Stones.
  • Fresh Air Weekend: Advice for people with long COVID; How parking changed the U.S.
    Psychologist James Jackson discusses long COVID. Ken Tucker celebrates the 50th anniversary of Al Green's Call Me. Paved Paradise author Henry Grabar explains how parking shaped America.
  • 'Wait Wait' for Dec. 18, 2021: With Not My Job guest Keke Palmer
    Keke Palmer is BUSY. An Emmy-winning actor, writer and singer, it seems there's nothing she can't do. We put that to the test when we ask her three questions about palm readers and other psychics.
  • James Howard Jackson was in custody on charges of attempted murder in connection with the shooting of Lady Gaga's dog walker and the theft of two of her French Bulldogs in February 2021.
    LA sheriffs inadvertently free the man suspected of shooting Lady Gaga's dog walker
    After attending court proceedings on Tuesday, James Howard Jackson was released from custody the next day "due to a clerical error." Authorities are working to rearrest him.
  • <em>Cyrus Plays Elvis</em> isn't the first time Cyrus Chestnut has covered an unlikely source. He also helped put together <em>Gold Sounds</em>, a jazz tribute to the indie-rock band Pavement.
    Cyrus Chestnut: Reinventing Elvis
    Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and Elvis Presley aren't a likely pairing: Chestnut is one of the top pianists of a generation born many years after songs like "Love Me Tender" made Presley the king of rock 'n' roll. Hear an interview and performance from Studio 4A.
  • Recorded one year earlier, Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" was released as a 7" single near the time of the singer's death in December 1964.
    Sam Cooke's Swan Song of Protest
    Though only a modest hit by his standards, Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" became an anthem of the 1960s civil rights movement, and would come to be heralded as his magnum opus.
  • Toumani Diabate Takes a Solo Turn
    By most accounts, Diabate is the world's greatest living player of the kora, a 21-string West African harp. Now, his new album finds the Malian master musician alone with the instrument — and defining the state of his art.
  • The latest from Mark E. Smith's collective features a group of American backing musicians, assembled ad hoc after yet another personnel change.
    The Fall's Constant 'Reformation'
    For the last 30 years, Mark E. Smith has led one hard-driving band and many, many band members. The latest incarnation of the post-punk collective has a new record out, one which features another impromptu Reformation of personnel.
  • Murder-Mystery Audiobooks Keep Trucker Awake
    For long-haul trucker Steve Brosnan, there's nothing like a murder mystery on audiobook to help him escape the monotony of the road. For a new series, "Roadside Reviews," Brosnan gives his take on selections by Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs.
  • Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee perform onstage at the Billboard Latin Music Awards.
    'Despacito' Deep Dive: More Than Meets The Ear
    It was the No. 1 song in America for 16 straight weeks. As the summer of "Despacito" draws to a close, AltLatino explores the musical, sociological and business ripples created by the song's success.
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