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This week, a new fellowship was announced that granted twenty jazz musicians of retirement age a gift of $100,000 each.

Not even a snowstorm could keep Leon Thomas, the most exciting artist in R&B music today, away from the Tiny Desk.

Kendrick Lamar's performance at the Super Bowl is paying dividends, as three of his albums find themselves in this week's top 10.

Jurors found Rocky, a rapper and the longtime partner of Rihanna, not guilty of firing a gun at a former friend on a Hollywood street in 2021. He could have faced up to 24 years in prison.

Last week, the hottest ticket in NYC wasn't the SNL 50th anniversary concert. It was the three nights Paul McCartney played at a tiny downtown venue that usually hosts up-and-coming indie rock bands.

Northern Virginia guitarist Yasmin Williams shares how the Tiny Desk Contest changed her life — despite entering it twice and never winning.

Horsegirl's sophomore album, Phonetics On and On, is a compulsively replayable record full of arrestingly catchy, bare-bones songwriting and twee treasures.

At the Tiny Desk, Bartees Strange has got the range, with crunching rock riffs, spitting bars and bringing us to the brink of tears.

Paramore singer Hayley Williams' earliest memories of music are of hearing her grandfather's songs. She helped him, now 78, achieve a dream: releasing his debut album.

The ranchera and bolero singer took aim at machismo as if it were a piñata. For decades, she wrote and sang feminist anthems full of pain, rage and empowerment.