Music Features

The Beach Boys' co-founder Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82, leaving behind a storied legacy as one of pop music's greatest songwriters and producers. Here are NPR's best interviews, concerts and appreciations of the late artist.

The Beach Boys' co-founder, songwriter and producer transformed pop music into high art and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.

The Drive-By Truckers co-founder talks about his latest solo album, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams.

The musical visionary led a multi-racial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early '70s.

Myung-Whun Chung will be one of the first non-Italians to take the post of music director at Milan's famous opera house.

The Family Guy creator got a trove of previously unheard arrangements written for Frank Sinatra and has released a first album of some of the songs.

Movies about musicians love to hit the same melodramatic beats about fame and genius. Important but not quite famous, the '90s indie band Pavement is the exception that unbalances the formula.

Anxiety and panic attacks crippled pianist Simone Dinnerstein on stage, despite a stellar career. She shares how one common device helped her overcome the fear.

Los Tigres del Norte has played almost every single place in the country — from armories to rodeos, in big cities and small towns. But they've never played Madison Square Garden.

The superbly alert and flexible drummer formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years. He was 82.