Martha Wainwright is beginning again. The beguiling performer and songwriter returns with Love Will Be Reborn, out in August. Not since 2012’s Come Home to Mama has a Martha Wainwright record been so ...

As we have a plethora of really great music people here at NPR who are far hipper and better informed than I am (admittedly, not hard) and we want to feature new music on the blog, this week I turned ...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of her seminal eponymous debut studio album, Martha Wainwright announces the 20th Anniversary Tour, hitting North America in the Spring of 2025. "20 years ago my life ...

The word "confessional" has some unpleasant connotations when the topic is singer-songwriters: It's often used as a benign-sounding stand-in for "overwrought" or "over-sharing." But Martha Wainwright ...

As you may expect from a concert venue which cost 42m to construct, the Bridgewater Hall has some superb acoustics. Primarily the home to Manchester’s Halle Orchestra, the venue also works perfectly ...

Martha Wainwright is the daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle (of the McGarrigle Sisters) and the sister of Rufus Wainwright. While her music is often called “folk,” she's not a folk ...

The miracle of Rufus Wainwright’s voice—that it can be at once so strong and so tender—is also the miracle of Wainwright’s family, both in temperament and talent, right back to the singing and ...

Rufus and Martha Wainwright are launching a new initiative in honor of their late mother, Kate McGarrigle, to provide musicians living with aggressive cancer time in professional recording studios.