ROANOKE, Va. – School may be out for winter break, but it’s all gas and no brakes when it comes to perfecting your craft on the hardwoods. Dozens of kids have been doing that this week thanks to Hoop ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Be consistent, develop, maximize and elevate. That’s the mission of Hoop Love Academy-- an organization offering training, clinics, camps and now a rec league known as Synergy. “We ...

With the help of producer Tucker Martine and a smart, subtle band, Hoop and Beam achieve a fine balance — of songwriting sensibilities and of... Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the ...

Without even listening to their new record, you can tell Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop are perfect complements for each other. “Neither of us had written a song with anyone else, so we both were like, ‘How ...

Spilly from Baltimore Hoop Love shows Lady T how to hula hoop and explains why it's a fan favorite activity.

Jesca Hoop was raised a Californian Mormon before honing her mischievous folk songs and earning the spectacular endorsement of having once been babysitter to Tom Waits’s children. It’s a delightful ...

For both Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop, Love Letter For Fire could have gone horribly wrong. Like any untested working relationship, it risked ending up as either an underwhelming compromise or (worse) an ...