In a conversation with pianist Lara Downes, the New Yorker staff writer says music in America will keep evolving as long as ...

From viral hits to street rallies, musicians are producing a surging wave of protest music for people hungry for change.

Members of the East Bayʻs Iranian American community express fear, stress, sorrow, and hope as the U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran unfold.

As the United States turns 250, experience a reenactment of some of the events that helped win the American Revolution. The Huntington Beach Historical Society is hosting a weekend of living history, ...

This hit from Terry Jacks was originally a Jacques Brel song from 1961. It was Jacks who turned it into a tragedy pop hit in English, one that topped charts across the board. “Seasons In The Sun” was ...

Few songs in rock history have a comeback story quite like Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence." Originally recorded as an acoustic ballad and released on the duo's 1964 debut album Wednesday ...

Harry Styles plays the action hero — with the help from some stunt doubles — in the new music video for “American Girls.” Directed by James Mackel, the clip finds Styles spending a day on the set: He ...

It can’t be easy to sum up Southern California in a song. But that hasn’t stopped songwriters from trying to make sense of the West Coast scene in just a few minutes’ time. Naturally, some of the best ...

Premieres Tuesdays, April 7 - 14, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+ Lucy Worsley investigates one of history’s most explosive break-ups: the 18th century split between Britain and its 13 ...

We learned in school the Battle of Saratoga in New York was unequivocally the turning point of the Revolutionary War. Its significance is real: Saratoga helped secure French alliance and transformed ...

Nowruz celebrates the arrival of spring and rebirth. But for many in the Iranian diaspora, this year is different. As the war continues, many are trying to balance the joy of the holiday with grief.

He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s. By Peter Applebome Neil ...