It wasn’t until I plugged in the sub that I realized how much potential I had on tap. I felt my music for the first time at home — physically, not just emotionally.

In the early days of his career, Parker McCollum considered it a big deal to pack in a couple hundred people at the Saxon Pub, an Austin bar where he played in the 2010s. He never imagined that a ...

So why don't DJs play a wider variety of music? JONAS ADAMS, BYLINE: They're not in control of the music at all. QUIROZ: Jonas Adams is a producer here at NPR, and he also used to be a radio DJ.