Music & Culture

Music & Culture

Why Metallica is a big winner in the comeback of vinyl records

6:54am March 15, 2023

With vinyl records outselling CDs for the first time in 25 years, Metallica will keep up with the demand by owning its own record-pressing company. Metallica's newest album drops next month.

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Andrew Combs performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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Andrew Combs: Tiny Desk Concert

5:00am March 15, 2023

by Tom Huizenga

Watch the restless singer-songwriter in a set of penetrating new tunes, capped with a breathtaking love song.

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Turner Williams Jr., 'Droplet'

4:54pm March 14, 2023

by Daniel A. Brown

The opening track from Briars on a Dewdrop plays like a field recording from a parallel world, yet there's something familiar in how its shimmering tones dart around a core motif.

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Esperanza Spalding teams up with pianist Fred Hersch in this 'Vanguard' recording

1:32pm March 14, 2023

by Kevin Whitehead

When Hersch invited jazz, pop and opera composer Spalding to perform three nights with him at the Village Vanguard, he thought she'd bring her bass. Instead, Spalding just wanted to use her voice.

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An illustration of three women dancing to reggaeton music while one of them wears a shirt that says "Reggaeton is culture"

A tough question led one woman to create the first Puerto Rican reggaeton archive

12:00pm March 14, 2023

Patricia Velázquez spent her whole life listening to reggaeton. But when she was questioned about sexism in the songs, she began an investigation that would lead her to create something new.

Una ilustración de tres mujeres bailando música reggaeton mientras una de ellas lleva una camisa que dice "reggaeton es cultura"

La pregunta que llevó a una mujer a crear el primer archivo de reguetón puertorriqueño

11:44am March 14, 2023

El reguetón es parte de la identidad de Patricia Velásquez. Pero cuando le hicieron una pregunta comenzó una investigación que la llevaría a crear algo nuevo sobre el género musical.

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For Sampa The Great, there's no place like home

11:39am March 14, 2023

Born in Zambia, raised in Botswana and having spent much of her music career in Australia, Sampa The Great returned to Zambia to make As Above So Below.

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Róisín Murphy, 'CooCool'

11:23am March 14, 2023

by Harry Tafoya

The Irish singer knows how to make any emotion feel dazzlingly danceable; here, she basks in uncomplicated love.

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Eluvium, 'Void Manifest'

9:02am March 14, 2023

by Stephen Thompson

Amid dreamy strings and a cloudy swirl of synths, vocalist Charlotte Mundy lends the song a haunted, impressionistic quality.

Some trees in San Diego are getting a second life thanks to 2 local businesses

6:34am March 14, 2023

The company West Coast Arborists removes trees that are near the end of their lives. They're then cut and dried. After that Taylor Guitars turns them into musical instruments.