Brian Blade

NPR's list pairs some of the year's most ubiquitous tracks, from Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, and others, with more uniquely NPR picks.

plus The Black Madonna, Jessie Ware, a Joy Division listening party, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

Norah Jones will perform songs from Day Breaks with drummer Brian Blade and bassist Chris Thomas.

The indoor, ticketed lineup for the 38th Montreal International Jazz Festival also includes Buddy Guy, Joey Bada$$, Robert Glasper, Tanya Tagaq, Xenia Rubinos, and many more.

The new album has Norah backed by Wayne Shorter, Dr. Lonnie Smith and Brian Blade.

Last month, it was revealed that Laurie Anderson would be co-curating a Lou Reed tribute for this year's annual Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival, and now the full schedule for Season 46 is here. It runs from July 20 to August 7 with free outdoor performances at various Lincoln Center venues. Opening night is "a night of words and music" with the legendary Patti Smith...

The year-end lists keep coming. Today, NPR Music published their 50 Favorite Albums of 2015 list. As usual, it's all over the map genre-wise, with classical, jazz, electronic, rap, mainstream pop, lo-fi DIY, indie rock, folk, country, metal an...

Valerie June at Afropunk 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Carnegie Hall's recurring 'Late Nights at Zankel Hall' concert series will be returning in 2015 and the schedule is out now...

NPR have posted their Top 50 Albums of 2014, and like it usually is, it's one of the more diverse year-end lists we've seen so far. There's a lot of the indie that shows up on many of these lists (The War On Drugs, St...