OHYUNG, 'yes my weeping frame!'
OHYUNG is better known as a producer of hyperactive hip-hop and pop music, but on a new double cassette plays with shapes of tender ambient sound.
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Dreamville (with EARTHGANG), 'Everybody Ain't S***'
Hype instrumentals, with deeply perceptive lyrics that often straddle confidence and arrogance, have become synonymous with EARTHGANG.
'Wet Leg' hooks you with their prickly, raunchy way of looking at the world
Last year, a catchy song called "Chaise Longue" became a breakout hit for a duo of 20-something women from the Isle of Wight. Wet Leg's new self titled album is full of more clever entertainment.
Entries We Love: Figgy Baby, 'Mr. Baron'
This Tiny Desk Contest entry pairs unresolved resentment with childlike joy.
Sunburned Hand of the Man, 'Mental Egg'
A roiling group drone that builds and decays on a bed of whirling, gurgling guitars, languid percussion swells and fever-dream voices wailing.
Mystery recordings will now be heard for the first time in about 100 years
The New York Public Library recently received a machine that will read cracked and scratched wax cylinders — which include some of the earliest recorded audio.
Encore: Barlow & Bear bring musical theater into the TikTok era
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Grammy winners Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear of the group Barlow and Bear about breaking into musical theater via TikTok and their 'Bridgerton' musical.
Encore: Arooj Aftab considers her Grammy nods a triumph. But they won't define her
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Grammy winner Arooj Aftab about finding musical inspiration in the words of the 13th-century Sufi mystic poet Rumi and about how her Pakistani heritage informs her work.
Conductor Marin Alsop talks about the joys and challenges of leading an orchestra
Alsop talks about the rejection she faced on the way to becoming the first woman to lead a major American orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony. She's now the subject of a new documentary, The Conductor.
The Grammys make a clear statement: Sometimes feeling good is good enough
The show, despite a delay caused by the pandemic and brief moments of seriousness, was mostly a highly professional, relentlessly energetic showcase for the pleasure of live music. Plus a few awards.