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The composer Celia Hollander (left) and rapper Fat Tony are two musicians who were affected by the LA wildfires, which destroyed the instruments, record collections and irreplaceable work of many artists.

For many LA musicians, the wildfires took their homes — and their livelihoods

The Los Angeles fires impacted many musical artists, destroying instruments, record collections and hard drives of irreplaceable work.

A woman cries as the Palisades Fire advances in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.

Photos: Thousands in Los Angeles evacuate as wind-fueled wildfires quickly worsen

More than 30,000 people in Los Angeles County have been ordered to evacuate as the Palisades Fire blazed through the Pacific Palisades community, fueled by intense Santa Ana winds.

A swimmer watches as a large dark plume of smoke passes over the beach from a wildfire from Pacific Palisades, in Santa Monica, Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Wild weather brings winds and fire to the West, snow to the South

As the South prepped for snow and more cold starting Wednesday, residents in Southern California faced off with hurricane-strength winds.

People stop to take a breath as they evacuate along Sunset Boulevard while the Palisades Fire burns amid a powerful windstorm on Jan. 7, 2025 in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

Los Angeles wildfires trigger evacuations and state of emergency declarations

The city of Los Angeles declared a state of emergency Tuesday night as strong winds spurred the rapid spread of two wildfires in separate areas of the foothills on the northern edges of the city.

The Christmas tree outside the U.S. Capitol is illuminated as Congress works to finalize a stop-gap spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.

Congress flirts with a holiday shutdown as GOP objects to bipartisan spending bill

Congressional leaders released a stop-gap spending bill to fund the government until March 14 but Republicans, including President-elect Trump, are objecting to additional spending in the bill.

The coronavirus pandemic reordered almost everything about the music industry, from touring to streaming, interrupting careers and stealing lives.

How the pandemic changed music

In some ways, COVID shrank the distance between musicians and listeners. But then, it also threw nearly everything about the industry into disarray, and for many, things have never been the same.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, pictured in September, fulfilled a longtime dream by making a cameo in a Broadway musical this weekend.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a longtime theater lover, makes her Broadway debut

Jackson made a cameo in the romantic comedy musical & Juliet on Saturday night. She told NPR: "I got a call, and someone said, 'We heard that this was your lifelong dream.' And it is."

Son Little: Field Recordings x Aspen Ideas Festival

Watch the guitarist and songwriter perform outside on the idyllic Aspen Ideas Festival campus.

Thousands gather to protest Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th president of the United States and other related issues during the People's March on Jan. 18, in Washington D.C.

With fewer protesters and a renewed focus, activists plan for a second round of Trump

President-elect Donald Trump takes office Monday and Democratic organizers are not seeing the mass-scale opposition they witnessed in 2017. So, they're adjusting with a focus on Trump's agenda.

In this photo released by the Jasper National Park, smoke rises from a wildfire burning near Jasper, Alberta, Canada, on Wednesday.

In the Canadian Rockies, a fast-moving wildfire ravages the resort town of Jasper

The fire, which prompted 25,000 people to flee, roared into the near-deserted town overnight as a “wall of fire,” devastating up to half the structures in the picturesque resort, officials said.

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