A couple cuts from Kronos Quartet and Mahalia Jackson's new album, with her amazing singing and in conversation with Studs Terkel in 1963.

Books always make great gifts – and music books are especially good, since it’s easier to guess someone’s taste in music than in novels. The Talking Heads deserve an ambitious biography and this is it ...

This week on Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music a new album coming next month from Nick Piunti, Detroit rocker and restaurateur.

Over the last decade, the streaming revolution has triggered a documentary gold rush. Whatever your nonfiction area of interest happens to be — serial killers, cult leaders, athletes, con men or ...