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NPR's Weekly Dose of Wonder explores the wonder of music in this installment.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, about their 1989 hit "Closer to Fine" being featured prominently in the new Barbie movie.

Across the street from the jazz icon's home in Queens, a site of pilgrimage for fans from around the world, sits the new Louis Armstrong Center, which brings his 60,000-item archive back to the block.

R&B legend Curtis Mayfield's 1967 hit "We're a Winner" broke ground as one of the first commercial hits centered on Black pride during the civil rights movement.

The synth-pop band just finished its first tour in nearly 20 years. After a recent show in Brooklyn, two longtime fans reflect on why this music still hasn't lost its power.

Even before a pair of hometown labels pushed past gatekeepers, NOLA mastered a reliable alchemy: no sound so straight you couldn't swing it, no hurdle so high you couldn't dance over it.

With their 1987 debut album Paid in Full, Eric B. & Rakim introduced internal rhyme schemes to rap, and changed the flow of hip-hop forever.

The world-renowned countertenor and his husband were accused of drugging and raping a young singer in 2010.

A grand jury in Texas declined to indict rapper Travis Scott for a deadly crowd surge at his concert in 2021. NPR's Scott Simon talks with the Houston Chronicle's Joey Guerra about the incident.

That's some key advice from Grammy-winning jazz bassist, composer and bandleader Christian McBride.