Few musicians have been as delightfully and fascinatingly weird as Sun Ra. He was born Herman Poole Blount, changed his name to honor the Egyptian god of the sun, believed he was an angelic being from ...

Ra Ra Riot are back with their first song in five years. Listen to “The Wish” below. Rostam Batmanglij, whose former Vampire Weekend bandmates are playing a handful of shows with Ra Ra Riot, co-wrote ...

Meshell Ndegeocello worked on a new album inspired by Sun Ra and his 1966 album The Magic City. The new release, Red Hot & Ra : The Magic City, is out April 12 via Red Hot Organization. Ndegeocello ...

After five years, indie-rock band Ra Ra Riot have released a new single, “The Wish,” co-written and produced by Rostam Batmanglij. Ra Ra Riot is renowned for both their cultivation of live music ...

February is Black History Month, and each week all month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is joining us to talk about a different trailblazer of Black music. These mavericks took musical risks ...