What can robots teach us about humanity and about love? This musical, starring Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen, tries to understand what it means to actually live.

Now that it is becoming harder and harder to get a ticket to your favorite artist's show, watching indirectly is becoming a popular compromise. What is gained and lost in a tiered concert hierarchy?

There have been so many extraordinary iterations of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers that some remarkable editions have been overlooked — including Strasbourg 82, a newly discovered concert album.

Understanding one of the world's oldest civilizations can't be achieved through a single film or book. But recent works of literature, journalism, music and film by Iranians are a powerful starting point.

She may be indie rock's queen of precisely rendered emotion, but on Mitski's latest album, Nothing's About to Happen to Me, warped perspectives, questionable motives and possible hauntings abound.

On Tuesday opening statements will begin for the federal antitrust trial against Live Nation, one of the largest entertainment companies in the world.

One of the most influential groups in hip-hop honors its legacy and the late Trugoy the Dove with a set of classics and new material.

Gorillaz, the animated band, burst on the scene 25 years ago. NPR's Juana Summers talks to musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, the band's creators, about how it has evolved.

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis intersect punk and jazz on their second collaborative effort as a quartet, "Deface the Currency."

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Raina Douris, host of World Cafe at member station WXPN, about Mitski's new album, Nothing's About to Happen to Me.