How the legendary jazz singer transformed pain into art on her 1956 album.
Poet and activist Maya Angelou died on Wednesday. She was 86-years-old. But before she was a famous author she had a career as a Calypso singer.
Hungary’s not a country you associate with coast lines. And for good reason. It’s land-locked. But a new surf rock band is bringing a new type of sound to the country’s culture — and it’s decidedly less dreary than usual.
Americans don’t know enough about their own histories. Experts weigh in on what they should know and why.
Sixties icon Marianne Faithfull on her new covers album, what’s on her iPod and the music she calls the soundtrack of her life.