“I think there's sort of a balance of like, acknowledging the storm looming, and also leaning into a little bit of the hedonism," Dessa says about the metaphor in the album’s lede single.

The grassroots country star, whose fan base crosses lines of identity and politics, is releasing a song called "In Your Love," from a new album. Its video tells a queer, Appalachian love story.

She became a sensation in 1990 with her cover of Prince's ballad “Nothing Compares 2 U,” a seething, shattering performance that topped charts from Europe to Australia.

Steven Centrific and his wife Jasmine Seuling talk Intellephunk’s most ambitious party of the year, The Great Beyond. It takes place over the weekend of July 28-30 at a campground in Franklin, Minn.

The beloved singer and interpreter of pop standards won 20 Grammy awards over a career that touched eight decades.

For Janelle Monáe, The Age of Pleasure is more than an album. “It is a movement, it's something that I live,” she says. Listen to Monáe’s recent interview with The Current’s Ayisha Jaffer.

Seven years since winning NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest, Duluth musician Gaelynn Lea has played hundreds of gigs around the world, scored a Broadway play and become an influential advocate for disability awareness.

Swift became the first woman and third artist ever to have four of the Top 10 albums on Billboard's 200 chart. This latest milestone comes weeks after the release of Speak Now (Taylor's Version).

Each of 11 songs spanning a decade still feels relevant to the artist because of the album’s focal point: her children.

Multiple handwritten wills were found in Franklin's home in 2019. Two of Franklin's sons would like a 2014 will to be honored and are up against their brother, who wanted to uphold a 2010 will.