Music & Culture

Trumpeter Roy Hargrove, performs at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on May 1, 2013. Hargrove died at age 49 Friday in New York.

Music & Culture

Roy Hargrove, Grammy-Winning Jazz Trumpeter, Dies At 49

5:22pm November 03, 2018

by Nate Chinen

Hargrove first emerged in the late 1980s, at a cultural moment when his precocity and poise amounted to a form of currency in jazz, quickly earning the approval of the genre's elders.

Barbra Streisand's latest album, Walls, is out now on Columbia Records.

Music & Culture

On Barbra Streisand's Latest, The Walls Do Talk — To The President

8:14am November 03, 2018

Streisand speaks with Scott Simon about crafting her new album, Walls, as a reaction to the Trump administration.

Flasher's "Material" is off their album Constant Image, out last June on Domino Records.

Music & Culture

Flasher's Deeply Bizarre New Video Stares Into The Internet's Gaping Maw

8:02am November 03, 2018

by Brie Martin

The D.C. post-punk band's brilliant new video for "Material" spoofs YouTube, but the jokes run far deeper — and weirder — than that.

Music & Culture

Across the Blue Ridge #150 - Classic Songs and Tunes, New Recordings

4:00pm November 02, 2018

by Paul Brown

This week's show ranges across the southern mountains with some truly wonderful fiddle tunes and songs. We start with the late North Carolina fiddler Jim Shumate, the first fiddler with Flatt

Queue Listen Now

Music & Culture

'I Love Men Very Much, But...': Rosanne Cash On Telling Women's Stories

1:56pm November 02, 2018

by Talia Schlanger

One of America's great storytellers explains the urgent need she felt to tell female stories on her latest album, She Remembers Everything.

In her solo work and with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Giddens has helped shepherd the revival of the black string band tradition in American consciousness.

Music & Culture

Rhiannon Giddens Is The 21st Century's Revelator

1:39pm November 02, 2018

by Kaia Kater

Giddens' influence is not contained by her many accolades but by her drive to unearth forgotten stories, developing the ethos of a new reconstruction based in truth-telling.

Spanish singer Roslaía's El Mal Querer is on our short list of the best albums out on Nov. 2.

Music & Culture

New Music Friday For Nov. 2: 8 Albums You Need To Hear Now

1:09pm November 02, 2018

by Robin Hilton

This week's sprint through the best new albums, out on Nov. 2, includes the Flamenco-pop of Rosalía, profoundly moving reflections from Marianne Faithful, fuzz-pop from Stove and more.

Queue Listen Now

Music & Culture

Hear Troye Sivan's Lonely Cover Of Queen's 'Somebody To Love'

12:13pm November 02, 2018

by Madeline Clement

Troye Sivan's understated reinterpretation of one of Queen's greatest hits will not rock you. It doesn't need to.

A still from ASHRR's "Don't Wait Too Long" video.

Music & Culture

Lindsay Musil Stars In Synth-Pop Trio ASHRR's 'Don't Wait Too Long' Video

10:31am November 02, 2018

by Kristy Guilbault

The True Detective and UnREAL actress spends a day wandering around a San Bernardino mountain town in a surreal video.

Springsteen on Broadway will make its debut on Netflix in December.

Music & Culture

Recorded On Broadway, Springsteen Sings A Song For A 'Land Of Hope And Dreams'

10:16am November 02, 2018

by Lauren Onkey

Even stripped down to a guitar and voice, the song is classic Springsteen: grand, optimistic, spiritual and open-ended enough to be embraced by a big audience.