Ne-Yo performed his own hits, singles he penned for artists like Rihanna and Beyoncé, and debuted a new song during the R&B singer's Tiny Desk concert that NPR Music shared Friday. The hitmaker ...

Ne-Yo is one of the genre-defining R&B singers of the 2000s, and his invite to NPR's Tiny Desk concert series ... Rihanna and Beyoncé. Draped in a bedazzled all-white getup and his signature ...

Strain told NPR that ... at the time. Beyoncé’s 2013 release likely affected that decision, as her surprise Friday morning drop of her self-titled visual album created what music critic ...

Ester Dean, who wrote the tracks Start Over and Countdown for Beyoncé’s 2011 album, 4, took to social media on April 9 to publicly acknowledge and apologize for her part in a remix song which took a j ...

Ann Powers is NPR Music's critic and correspondent. She writes for NPR.org and she can be heard on NPR's newsmagazines and music podcasts. One of the nation's most notable music critics ...

Jack Siegel on the set of NPR's ... sessions on music arrangement hosted by Khirye Tyler––a musical director and producer for artists like Usher, Jay-Z and, of course, Beyoncé.

It’s tempting — and not necessarily inaccurate — to view this year’s Grammys as a demolition-derby-style clash of the titans involving some of the biggest names in pop music. Of course, Beyoncé will ...