Music

The fictional band HUNTR/X from the hit Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters went from a group no one had ever heard of to one of the biggest pop acts of 2025. Now they have five Grammy nominations.

NPR's Daniel Estrin asks Nora Felder, the music supervisor for the series "Stranger Things," how she went about scoring the series over its decade-long run which ended this week.

An exhibition at Levi's San Francisco headquarters highlights how jeans can offer surprising insights into the lives and legacies of the artists who wore them.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kelefa Sanneh, a music critic writing for The New Yorker, about his essay "How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge."

Netflix's wildly popular movie about a fictitious all-girl rock band is hitting nearly 1,800 movie theaters around the country this weekend as a singalong version.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author David Levithan and singer-songwriter Jens Lekman, creators of the new novel and album Songs for Other People's Weddings.

1960s pop star Connie Francis has died. The first female singer to chart a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, she sold over 40 million records before the age of 25.

The Netflix animated movie KPop Demon Hunters is a phenomenon, with a soundtrack that's climbing the Billboard charts, and a fandom rivaling that of just about any K-pop idol.

Thousands of musicians apply to NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest every year with the chance of playing their own concert, touring the country, and making it big. But not everyone submits to catch their big break.