The veteran jazz drummer is joined by special guests that include producer and percussionist Kassa Overall and actor Malcolm Jamal Warner, for a potent and deeply moving set.
East Nashville, where many artists and industry folks work and live, was hit particularly hard by the tornado that swept through the city in the early hours of Tuesday.
Still "the guy from Pavement" to many, Malkmus may have finally escaped his own shadow on Traditional Techniques, a new album with a bold creative constraint.
On her second EP, The Beautiful Struggle, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter, whose Kurdish Muslim parents fled their home during the Gulf War, bridges her Kurdish and Dutch identities.