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There are some new-comers on the music scene, and our NPR Music member stations have curated a list of some highlights for your playlists.

If you didn't manage to sneak your way onto a yacht bound for coastal Rhode Island — well, we can't help you get to Newport. But NPR Music can bring you live streaming concerts. Here's what's in store, starting with Robert Glasper and ending with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock.

The historic Latin record label has been sold to Concord Music. Sig Sigworth, president of Concord Music's Craft Recordings, talks about preserving Fania's legacy.

When Harvey Weinstein was arrested, it was a landmark moment for the movement known as #MeToo. But the criminal case against the former movie mogul has not been the slam dunk many people expected.

From the Rough Translation podcast, the story of an Air Force captain who seemed to hold the key to turning around the Afghan war, and why everything went wrong.

In an age-old ritual, baseball fans, wielding pencils and scorecards, annotate every play of a game from the stands. The dying practice still has some hard-core practitioners.

Work on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae began in 1894 and carries on to this day in a Bavarian palace in Munich, Germany. There's still a long way to go for a project with a soft deadline of 2050.

The day after one person opened fire in a UNC Charlotte classroom killing two and injuring four, the school's chancellor Philip Dubois joined host Mike…

Officials have their eyes open to the threats in a way they didn't in 2016, but they are limited by a lack of time and resources.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, about his impressions after Gina Haspel's confirmation hearing to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The jazz pianist defied classification while steadfastly affirming her roots in the hard-bop tradition of her native Detroit. She died Tuesday in Philadelphia.

In film and TV, pop culture references are meant to give a knowing nod to those in the audience who understand the joke. But in an increasingly segmented and diverse country, those jokes may be pulling in fewer laughs. This story originally aired on Morning Edition on Jan. 18, 2013.

Or, how I became the third wheel in a weekend Twitter beef over rap, culture and politics following Eminem's Trump tirade.

In Accra, many low-income parents scrape together money to send their toddlers to private schools. The trouble: schools subject them to long lectures, and punish misbehavior with beatings.

Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch reveal the hows and whys of the whirlwind they uncorked by commissioning Christopher Steele to investigate Donald Trump's activities in Russia.

Closed-door testimony from the only White House staffer cooperating with the probe could provide first-hand knowledge about details that remain hazy.

Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss was wounded in the Kabul airport bombing and later died. He's believed to be the last American fatality of the war. "If he had a crystal ball, he'd do it again," his wife said.

Even next to Patti Labelle's charisma and Nona Hendryx's songcraft, there is no Labelle without the range and clarity of Dash's silver throat — and the trio's commitment to singing as equals.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Danni Aubain, a former patient who was diagnosed with COVID-19.

"For most people, Jan. 6 happened for a few hours," U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell said in the select committee hearing. "But for those of us who were in the thick of it, it has not ended."