Music & Culture

Listening to this band's music gives you that warm feeling of spending time with old friends. Hear a performance of songs from 2016's Cardinal, recorded live for World Cafe.

The modern-day jazz singer gives KCRW a taste of his new R&B-oriented album, Love In A Time Of Madness.

So what kind of emojis can you text your friends and family? Likenesses of J Mascis, Lou Barlow and drummer Murph, of course, but also notable characters from album artwork like Beefy The Bullfrog.

Each track on The Black Keys singer's new album sparkles like a long-lost AM radio gem.

After a few promising EPs of glammed-up garage-punk, the Chicago band is set to release Errors, its spastic and ridiculously fun debut full-length.

Lowe's lived-in baritone is an ideal vehicle for this unreleased country nugget. All six of the albums that the new-wave and power-pop pioneer cut between 1982 and 1990 will be reissued this summer.

As members of the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet bow their vibraphones, brush their gongs and message their bass drums, the composer's evocative music oozes from blackness.

Coffman's first album since leaving Dirty Projectors reads like a love letter to the act of going solo, in life as in music.

The singer-songwriter proves himself to be an astute student of country music's trends and conventions.