The Last Waltz is hailed as one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll films ever made. See The Band’s last concert in 1976, when guests included Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Ronnie Wood, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton and more.

Smokey Robinson, the 2016 Gershwin Prize recipient, expresses intense gratitude to his songwriting mentor Berry Gordy in a tear-jerker interview!

Here’s where singer/songwriter Alicia Keys performs in Landmarks Live in Concert on PBS, plus the song list!

Do your sappy songs out-drip those of the actor otherwise known for dark portrayals of the lecherous, manipulative and mad?

The Bronx may have been burning in the 1970s, but creative innovators in the New York City borough were igniting the world of music with hip hop. Learn how hip hop was born in the music-rich neighborhood of Morrisania.

Every stripe of music fan is going to find surprises in the new eight-part series Soundbreaking on PBS. Here are some of the best reveals and break-through moments, all told by an all-star lineup of musicians, producers, and go-to music journalists. We’ll update this page as episodes roll out through November 23.

Musicians and producers whose songs and sounds have defined eras tell their stories: music revolutions, technology, visual appeal, vocals, MTV and more.

Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music is an eight-episode PBS series debuting Monday, November 14, that explores the extraordinary impact of recorded music on the modern world. We’ll hear from some of the most celebrated artists, producers…

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Bob Dylan, poet, political activist, and American Master, for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” This is the first time this honor has gone to a musician.

The open house at Thirteen’s Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center on June 21 includes screenings, Q&As with filmmaker Julie Cohen, a live swing band and Lindy demonstrations by professional dancers. The evening is open to all, so swing by any time during the evening.

The love of Hamilton the Musical is spilling into street parties and fitness studios (and theaters in Chicago and California). Here’s where to get your Hamilton jam on this summer and beyond.

Introducing the performers at WNET’s first Open Mic Night at 66th and Broadway. Genres include comedy/improv, music, dance, and spoken word. The studio event will be live streamed Wednesday May 18, 8-11pm.

For ten weeks this spring and summer, you can kick back and hear free live music in a little known oasis in busy Midtown Manhattan: Worldwide Plaza. Soul, Sixties music, Samba, Swing and more are part of the Summer Concert Series16.

Scottish musician and singer Annie Lennox is a social icon as well as political activist and philanthropist. Her success in the 1980s with the Eurythmics along with her solo career in the 1990s won her a number of awards. As…

The advent of digital distribution has blown the doors off the traditional discovery process for singers and songwriters. In the spirit of the PBS Arts documentary, Hitmakers, we spoke to a handful of people from the music industry in the New York area about how the internet has changed their experience and how they’ve managed to make it work for them.