Andre 3000 released new music for the first time in 17 years this week. But "New Blue Sun" is not what most fans may have expected. The record has no rap music. What it does have is the flute.

OutKast star André 3000 announced that he will release his debut solo album, New Blue Sun, on November 17. The musician composed one-half of perhaps the most successful rap duo of all time with ...

Lizzo is the latest big-name celebrity to stop by "Sesame Street" to channel our collective inner child, and her interactions with Elmo and Cookie Monster did not disappoint! In a new clip shared on ...

Last month, Minnesota indie-rock band Retribution Gospel Choir exhibited some classic Midwestern generosity by releasing its new EP, The Revolution, as a free download. The giving continues with the ...

This week, Andre 3000 released an instrumental album featuring the flute instead of an expected rap album. Scott Simon asks LA Times' August Brown about the flute's decades-long role in pop music.