Today's essential songs, picked by NPR Music and NPR Member stations.

Hear new songs by Julia Jacklin, beabadoobee, Lily Seabird, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Tyler Ballgame, Criminal Instinct, The ...

Saturday, July 18 Starting at 3 p.m., head to J&S Roadhouse, 17 Wooley Road, to celebrate their Veterans’ Festival. Pennings ...

North Carolina’s Cigarettes @ Sunset return with “Appalachian Raised,” a soaring, fiddle-drenched love letter to Boone and the Blue Ridge — out now via Lost Highway Records.

Mike Dillon has confirmed that his next album, Mike & Beignet Go to the Zoo, will arrive October via RPF Records/Royal Potato ...

People attempt to beat the heat, Donna’s Diner took flight, Mercer County celebrates America’s 250th anniversary and more are ...

It was a sea of red, white and blue in Mercer on Saturday as crowds gathered to watch a parade celebrating America’s 250th ...

Time In - The call came from a friend of mine after hearing me play. He said, “You want to be in my band?” After some ...

When the first riff of “Pavement” drifted over a smoky Boone sunset, a group of five musicians in a cramped, unheated corner ...

With its rat-like tail and hairless ears, the humble opossum doesn't get a lot of respect. But North America's only native marsupial, or pouched animal, plays a valuable role in nature. Worms, frogs, ...

Blends lyrics about small-town grit with an irresistible, undefinable beat that Cigarettes @ Sunset members call "Possum Rock.” ...

I saw an opossum today coming out of an old pile of sticks and logs at the back of my property. I already battle the deer and rabbits in my garden, and I was worried that I don’t have much fight left ...