The composer, in a new collaboration with the Grammy-winning choir The Crossing, uses the words of Jeff Bezos and William Penn to explore connections among farming, colonialism and capitalism.
Harvey talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers about her album I Inside the Old Year Dying, a ragged, highly crafted adaptation of her epic poem Orlam, and why she prefers to make art without boundaries.
Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme talks about striving for originality and vulnerability on the band's eight studio album, 'In Times New Roman...'.
To make their first album since 2013, the members of Sigur Rós found their back together slowly, but the Icelandic group's singer says that when they started playing it felt like nothing had changed.
Tong first blew minds as the drummer of the British post-punk band Bloc Party. In his recent years with the genre-agnostic Algiers, he's found his place chasing a more collective mood.
The thoughtful pianist with a jazz pedigree talks about blurring the boundaries between jazz and classical, the pitfalls of music education, and harmonious rides in elevators.
