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Gardens are blooming across the country, and while you’ll likely see plenty of roses and brightly-colored zinnias on porches and patios this summer, one much-hyped trend is very, very dark.

Discover a broad spectrum of this year's most compelling classical music, from booby-trapped string quartets and chilled-out piano to full-throttle percussion, electric guitars and high-flying vocals.

Electronic composer Jlin warps percussion and other-worldly sounds into a fascinating, challenging collage. On a new album, she also gets a bit more... straightforward.

HEART was a first of its kind rock band in the early 1970’s -- a band that could stand toe to toe, shoulder to shoulder with any other hard rock band on the scene -- only it was anchored by two women, two Seattle born and bred sisters who while not necessarily trying to make history and break down barriers in the music business, wound up doing exactly that in hindsight.HEART performs DECEMBER 6th as the Wilson sisters -- ANN & NANCY -- bring their "ROYAL FLUSH TOUR" to the HARD ROCK LIVE stage at HARD ROCK CASINO NORTHERN INDIANA for an 8p.m. concert performance that she said generally runs about two hours and includes a mix of huge hits, deep cut fan favorites, and even a couple of covers.Listen here to TOM LOUNGES' interview with NANCY WILSON -- the co-founder, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter of Heart -- as she talks about dogs, guitars, her long journey through music, being a female empowerment groundbreaker in music, the current HEART tour, and what's coming next.

The Pulitzer-winning rapper has returned with his first solo release since 2017's DAMN.

Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died at the age of 29. NPR's A Martinez talks with reporter David Cox about the impact Naroditsky had on the chess world.

Ad spending this election season is estimated at nearly $10 billion, surpassing even the 2020 presidential election. We look at two ads and what's at stake these midterms.

"I am deeply troubled by the false allegations regarding the management of the Kennedy Center," Deborah Rutter wrote in a statement.

Simone Popperl is an editor for NPR's Morning Edition and Up First. She joined the network in March 2019, and since then has pitched and edited stories on everything from the legacy of burn pits in Iraq, to never-ending "infrastructure week," to California towns grappling with climate change, to American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin's ascendance to the top of her sport. She led Noel King's reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Steve Inskeep's reporting from swing states in the lead up to the 2020 Presidential Election, and Leila Fadel's field reporting from Kentucky on the end of Roe v. Wade.

The June 2016 email chain released by Donald Trump Jr. puts what happened in the spring and summer of that year in a new light.