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"The major labels, the indie labels backed by majors, the RIAA on their leash, and so on -- took up a lot of resources," guest blogger DJ/rupture writes about the last decade. "I want the giants to fall even faster so we can see what weird flowers start blooming in the spaces left vacant."
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As we wrap up our series on the decade in music, we have a final question for you: how will we listen to music in the year 2020?
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New York's Museum of Modern Art has curated a major retrospective of drawings created by director Tim Burton. It contains hundreds of creations from throughout his career, including little-known short films, sketches of unrealized projects and seven new pieces created just for the show.
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An NPR tradition, the Friday before Thanksgiving is the time for Susan Stamberg to share her weird-sounding — but delicious — recipe for cranberry relish. This year, she's found a real fan: food expert Ruth Reichl.
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America's Finest News Source has released a book celebrating its 21 years of satire. Onion editors Joe Randazzo and Joe Garden talk with NPR's Renee Montagne about the serious business of being funny.
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One of the great mysteries about North America is what killed off woolly mammoths and other animals after the last ice age. A study published Friday provides new clues about this, cleverly deduced from samples of a fungus that grew on the animal's dung.
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Dr. Gregg and Kathryn Korbon tell the story of the Brian C. Korbon Field in Charlottesville, Va., named in honor of their son. Before his ninth birthday, Brian told his parents he wouldn't make it to his "double digits." He died months later.
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The chief failure of the recording industry this decade was its initial decision to treat digital music as an enemy, writes NPR jazz blogger Patrick Jarenwattananon.
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The Postal Service has put strict limits on a volunteer program that answers letters to Santa, citing a scare over a registered sex offender. Bah, humbug! As a nation and a people, must we continue to burn down the haystack because we fear we might step on a needle?
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Pouring through thousands of neighborhood photos taken by Google Street View, Jon Rafman has culled dozens of images that Google could rightfully add to an art portfolio.
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As part of NPR Music’s coverage exploring the last decade in music, we’d like to ask you this question: If the '00s could have one theme song for its montage of memorable moments, what would it be?
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Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships in Berlin, but the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the South African sports ministry says.
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The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year.
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Mainstream R&B radio, retail and video industries never had cause to pay retro-soul much mind until Amy Winehouse demonstrated its commercial potential.
