The cobweb-clearing soundtrack samples of "Auditorium" weren't served up by just any producer - they're the sound of Madlib, an absolute underground icon, meeting up with Mos Def and the legendary Slic …

Much of the music being made today by Cuban artists is fiercely experimental. The late conguero Anga Dfaz revisited Coltrane on his trippy version of "A Love Supreme." Juan Formell combined the  …

Sleep sounds like a wonderful idea right now. Not the act of slumber, mind you, but the bowel-rumbling sludge-metal classicism of the band Sleep. They're joined by other sinister, Black Sabbath-worship …

As America recovered from the shock of 9/11, country music was our musical comfort food, doing what it always did best: reassuring us that life, love, and all the things we care about most, still go on …

In Basics, we heard from the guys, in Next Steps, we heard from the groups, and now in Deep Cuts, we'll hear from the gals who made the year sing. Delicate as a butterfly wing, sweet as sugar ma …

Ready to hear some sonic history in the making? Ragtime was one of the first mass-produced forms of pop music to take America by storm. Since music sleuths say that the name came from the description o …

Ragtime's heyday ended in the early 1920s when Dixieland jazz became the order of the day, but that primeval ragtime swing was permanently stuck in America's ear, with revivals cropping up every few de …

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's most beloved composition of all, "The Nutcracker, Op.71: No. 12d Character Dances: TrTpak (Russian Dance)" is a perfect, and familiar, place to begin our Russian musical expe …

For the blues greats of the 88s, look no further than Piano Blues Essentials. We've gathered together the best of musical history's blues black-and-whites, with everything from a piano-roll play …