La Mecánica Popular: Radical Afro-Latin Futurism
With hints of chicha and electrified Miles Davis, La Mecánica Popular makes the ancient sound like the future on their new album, Rosa Cruz.
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Singer-Songwriter John Prine Draws On His Roots With 'Tree Of Forgiveness'
Prine keeps his earthiness alive on his first album of new songs in 13 years. Critic Ken Tucker says The Tree of Forgiveness features simple folk arrangements and a jaunty tone.
The Thistle & Shamrock: New Writing
Brand-new music, including festival commissions and soundtracks, from artists including Gillian Frame, Michael Rooney and The Macalla Orchestra, John Doyle, John McCusker and Mike McGoldrick.
Watch This Week's Outstanding Entries From The Tiny Desk Contest
Our judges are one week closer to picking this year's winner — in the meantime, check out the entries that stood out to us this week.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Gets Her Day In The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
The late gospel singer and guitarist will get an overdue recognition for her crucial influence on early rock and roll, joining a class of inductees that includes Bon Jovi, Dire Straits and The Cars.
World Cafe Nashville: Dom Flemons
Flemons' latest work, Black Cowboys, explodes the stereotypes that have dominated one of America's founding mythologies and opens up the frontier for all to claim.
First Listen: Ashley Monroe, 'Sparrow'
Be prepared to be swept up by Monroe's subtle and breathtaking Sparrow, a record fluent in the communal languages of folk, country, gospel and pop.
Guest DJ Kali Uchis On How Astrud Gilberto And N.E.R.D. Inspired Her Debut Album
The Colombian-American singer recalls her favorite childhood memories tied to music and plays some of the songs that inspired her debut album Isolation.
Watch Destroyer Perform 'Tinseltown Swimming In Blood' Live In The Studio
Destroyer, the long-running solo project from The New Pornographer's Dan Bejar, traffics in foggy tales of intimate, modern-American decay. Destroyer's 12th album, 'ken,' showcases those evocations.
Zac Farro Of Paramore Wants Halfnoise's 'She Said' To Free Your Head
The Paramore drummer coalesces his sunny, rhythmically rich psychedelic-pop tendencies on a new solo EP.