Entries We Love: LouTribe Jigg, 'I AM'
This Tiny Desk Contest entrant raps with a effortless flow reminiscent of André 3000 and with the assuredness of an artist who knows just who he is and where he's going.
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On 'Running with the Hurricane,' Camp Cope trades rage for quiet confidence
On the Australian trio's third album, the members of Camp Cope refuse to let the world harden them.
Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Maxo Kream
Backed by a live band, the Houston rapper performs a set that highlights the incredibly complex puzzle of his life.
At one border crossing into Poland, those fleeing Ukraine are met with music
For the crowds that have streamed across the border at the Medyka border crossing into Poland, they leave behind the air raid sirens and the sounds of war and are welcomed by musician Davide Martello.
Sylvan Esso's recording studio Betty's fosters musical community in North Carolina
Betty's has become a home base for the Triangle's famously collaborative music scene.
Cecil Taylor's piano lightning bolts are precisely targeted in this 1973 recording
Taylor's 1973 concert at New York's Town Hall has just been released for the first time as a digital album. It's a great, early example of Taylor's mature music — dense but well-designed.
Entries We Love: Marcus Jade, 'Legs and Bones'
This Tiny Desk Contest entrant's voice carries such a unique richness and tone, cutting and projecting through the small Brooklyn bedroom like it's a concert hall.
A new opera about Emmett Till is criticized for being created from a white perspective
While the creators of a a new opera about Emmett Till hope it will inspire white people to confront racism, others worry it depicts Black trauma for white entertainment while masquerading as activism.
Koffee, already a Grammy-winning globetrotter, is in full control for 'Gifted' debut
After winning a Grammy for her debut five-song short player, one of Jamaica's most talented branches out on her debut full-length.
Entries We Love: Mother Muerte, 'Al Mas Allá'
This Tiny Desk Contest entry is a psychedelic invocation of the "sombra en el cielo" ("shadow in the sky") that takes us to the afterlife.