Music & Culture

A still from Tiny Moving Parts' video for "Headache."

Music & Culture

Tiny Moving Parts Has The Best. Day. Ever. In 'Headache' Video

10:30am April 06, 2016

by Lars Gotrich

If you only had 24 hours left to live, how would you spend it? If you answered "skydiving, shotgunning beers at national landmarks and bathing in milk," then you are the band Tiny Moving Parts.

Music & Culture

Songs We Love: Parquet Courts, 'Human Performance'

10:19am April 06, 2016

by Doug Mosurock

The title track from the rock band's forthcoming Human Performance is a fragile and verbose tale of a relationship dissolved, featuring a wistful Mellotron solo.

Kathleen Battle will return to the Metropolitan Opera after 22 years.

Music & Culture

Is Battle Fatigue Over? The Met Rehires A Banned Soprano

4:56pm April 05, 2016

by Tom Huizenga

After 22 years away from the Metropolitan Opera, acclaimed soprano Kathleen Battle will return for a November concert of spirituals.

Music & Culture

Music Review: 'The Revival,' Cory Henry

4:25pm April 05, 2016

Cory Henry is a Grammy award-winning keyboardist. But on his latest live album, The Revival, he returns to his roots and plays the Hammond B-3 Organ — an instrument he learned to play when he was only 2 years old. Music commentator Michelle Mercer says Henry's personality is a match for the 400 pound instrument.

Ray LaMontagne performs Ouroboros live for World Cafe.

Music & Culture

Ray LaMontagne On World Cafe

4:09pm April 05, 2016

Hear LaMontagne perform his new album, Ouroboros, in full, backed by members of My Morning Jacket.

Clockwise from upper left: Weezer, Margaret Glaspy, Oh Pep!, The Jayhawks

Music & Culture

New Mix: Weezer, The Jayhawks, Colin Stetson, More

2:50pm April 05, 2016

On this episode of All Songs, we premiere new music from The Jayhawks, Margaret Glaspy and more, plus new Weezer and saxophonist Colin Stetson's reimagining of Górecki's Third Symphony.

Queue Listen Now

Leon Russell in a scene from Les Blank's film, A Poem is a Naked Person.

Music & Culture

Middle America At The Dawn Of Outlaw Country

12:14pm April 05, 2016

by Andy Beta

The revival of two forgotten music films — Heartworn Highways and A Poem is a Naked Person — documents the scene populated by Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe and Leon Russell.

Watch The Lumineers perform live for World Cafe.

Music & Culture

Watch Live: The Lumineers In Concert

11:06am April 05, 2016

The folk-rock band that brought the world "Ho Hey" releases a new album this week. Watch The Lumineers perform songs from Cleopatra starting at 1 p.m. ET.

Music & Culture

Viking's Choice: Aloha, 'Faraway Eyes'

10:20am April 05, 2016

by Lars Gotrich

Aloha's first album in six years is largely inspired by the grand gestures and airy atmospheres of '80s pop music — particularly in the rhythmically rich "Faraway Eyes."

Music & Culture

Songs We Love: BOSCO & Speakerfoxxx, 'Hot Boyz'

9:16am April 05, 2016

by Kiana Fitzgerald

The Atlanta singer and DJ follow closely, but not wholly, in Missy Elliott's empowering footprints in this flip of her subversive hit single from 1999.