NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Julia Steiner of the band Ratboys. Their new album is called "Singin' to an Empty Chair."

The Puerto Rican diaspora is celebrating the rise of one of their own all the way to this year’s Super Bowl halftime show.

Clifton Chenier is known as the King of Zydeco. He was a pioneering accordion player who melded Black Creole dance music from southwest Louisiana and east Texas with rhythm and blues.

Petra Rivera-Rideau, co-author of the Bad Bunny Syllabus and the new book P FKN R, says the Puerto Rican artist often wields joy as resistance.

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The Travis Scott signee came up in the shadow of his mentor's rootless sound. On Octane, he taps his hometown's lineage and finds a star power all his own.

Green Day will kick off the music portion of the Super Bowl with a performance at the game's opening ceremony. Will politics be part of their act?

These wildly different artists both reach the top of the pop charts this week.

Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, as in the rest of the world, resistance takes place closer to the ground.

In 1965, Davis led one of the all-time great jazz groups. That December, they recorded seven sets over two nights in a Chicago nightclub. The complete recordings went unreleased for decades.