Charli XCX's Mixtape 'Number 1 Angel' Is A Fantastic Pop Diary
While we await the follow-up to 2014's Sucker, Charli XCX has released a mixtape that indulges in the margins of slinky R&B, syrupy hip-hop and bizzaro electro-pop.
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Across the Blue Ridge #63- Grammy awards & listening sessions
This week we take a detour from the old dirt roads and head for the 2017 Grammy Awards. Listen to selections from the five bluegrass albums nominated for the award. The rest of the show
TGIRRD: Thank Goodness It's Record Release Day!
When music is distributed digitally — and available for advance streaming — what does record release day really mean? Plus, hear the latest additions to World Cafe's new-music playlist.
+1: Remembering Elliott Smith's Masterpiece, 'Either/Or,' 20 Years Later
Elliott Smith archivist and engineer Larry Crane discusses the challenges of making Smith's best album sound even better. Either/Or celebrates its 20th anniversary with a deluxe version.
Under Mary Ocher's Spell, A Spooky Village Comes 'To The Light'
Few records this year, so far, are as wondrous, pointed and odd as The West Against The People. Mary Ocher plays a spiritual guide in an occult-inspired video filmed in a rural German-Polish town.
A.B. Original Are The First Indigenous Artists To Win Annual Australian Music Prize
The hip-hop duo's independently released Reclaim Australia beat out Nick Cave and DD Dumbo, among others.
Songs We Love: Colouring, 'Heathen'
The electronic band wrote the lush and romantic "Heathen" about love, but also about believing in each other, even when it feels like we've lost ourselves.
Tank And The Bangas: Tiny Desk Concert
Tank And The Bangas' victory lap around the Tiny Desk was momentous, celebratory and deeply touching, with a flair and alchemy of styles that could come from New Orleans.
Joey DeFrancesco On Piano Jazz
The now-essential organist was only 20 years old when he joined Marian McPartland in 1991.
Songs We Love: Moor Mother, 'Deadbeat Protest'
Though Camae Ayewa shrouds her words in shards of sonic confrontation, her message is as blunt and compressed as her music: She's hungry, under attack, fists up, forever in peril.