One of rock's most important backup singers, Merry Clayton performs a relaxed but purposeful Tiny Desk home concert.

Filmed in stark black and white, Ndegeocello takes us on an intense trip across her catalog. Watch the R&B auteur's contribution to Tiny Desk's Black History Month celebration.

Mary Wilson began her career in Detroit in 1959 as a singer in what was then called the Primettes. The group went on to become The Supremes, with members Diana Ross and Florence Ballard.

The soul legend isn't letting quarantine slow him down.

The Boss announced Thursday that his new album, Letter To You, is out Oct. 23.

Dylan's first album of original songs in eight years comes out June 19. Hear the bluesy "False Prophet" now.

The second new release from Dylan in the last three weeks, "I Contain Multitudes" is a list of funny and preposterous boasts about the singer's prowess and power.

The iconic songwriter surprised fans at midnight with a 17-minute song about the assassination of JFK.

A new documentary doesn't radically alter what we know and love about The Band, but does unearth some fresh details.

For our series One-Hit Wonders/Second-Best Songs, NPR Music Senior Director Lauren Onkey recommends "Out of Left Field" by Percy Sledge. He's known mostly for his 1966 hit, "When a Man Loves a Woman."

Rosanne Cash has been making great records for forty years, but she's never played or written better music than she's doing right now.

A sweet mélange of soul, proto-funk, jazz, rock and Latin music that makes for an old-school roséwave soundtrack.

Art Neville's life connected directly to rock and roll's first notes. Travel through his funky catalog with The Meters, The Neville Brothers and his own solo songs.

His sprawling catalogue includes the psychedelic funk made as Night Tripper, Mardi Gras Indian music, jazz standards and show tunes.

Mavis Staples is a living embodiment of gospel music's place in the civil rights movement, but she's no static symbol of the past.

Charles laid claim to the center of American popular music on these 1962 classics, and ended up with some of the brashest and best-selling music of his career.

Harding woke up the Newport crowd with the soul-rock hybrid he calls "slop 'n' soul."

The oldest song Toots and The Maytals played, "I'll Never Grow Old," captured the spirit Toots Hibbard brought to the show. This will warm up your New Year's celebrations like nothing else.

Jon Batiste led a star-studded cast — including Mavis Staples, the Dap-Kings, Chris Thile and Brandi Carlile — through the civil rights-themed set.

Springsteen has performed his one-man show over 230 times since its debut last year. But, just as the Boss bids adieu to Broadway, a new film documenting the show is set to premiere on Netflix.