Music

“La Gua Gua 47” — the 47 Bus — honors the summer day in 1985 when Martínez rode SEPTA to the heartbeat of Philadelphia’s caribeña community.

We discuss the ways in which the pandemic has affected the lives of musicians, and the efforts to get Spotify to pay musicians more for their streams.

One silver lining of the yearlong pandemic is many theater companies have started putting plays and performances online.

“When there is an audience, I am involved with the audience and I thrive off their participation. But it's the music that ultimately injects that electricity into me,”

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with Cam Anthony, a North Philly teen who impressed judges on “The Voice” last week.

The bottom literally fell out from the terrestrial headquarters of the intergalactic jazz ensemble. Ninety-six-year-old bandleader Marshall Allen lives inside.

This week; the battle over the Delaware River watershed fracking ban, what's new with N.J.'s marijuana laws, and the concert series to fall asleep to.

Florence Price had one of her pieces performed in 1933, by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has disappeared from the classical canon.

Opera Philadelphia commissioned the composer to use the 1887 Frances Harper poem “Save the Boys” as opera for the Black Lives Matter movement.

This week; remembering legendary Temple basketball coach John Chaney, CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank Patrick Harker, and South Jersey soul singer Mary Cross.

For some of Philly's Gen Z residents, 2020 was a political wake-up call. Now, they're bringing their ideas to city government.

Siberia's landscape has long been defined by ice, wind, and darkness. But underneath the region's bleak history and barren geography lives a uniquely Siberian piano culture.

“This is off-the-charts.” University of Delaware drummers will be one of the few live performances in Biden’s stripped-down inaugural parade.

Sullivan rose to the top of the R&B charts in 2008 with her debut album. She’s earned 12 Grammy noms and written songs for Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson and Monica.

This week we listen back to Mary's interview with poet Ariea D. Matthews, Anton Moore, executive producer of "The Wight of Death," and musician Micah Graves.