Music

An optimistic, harmony-rich slab of countrified pop-rock, the song returns to one of modern country music's sturdiest themes: the celebration of a night electrified with possibility.

Tim Z. Hernandez started with a line from Guthrie's "Deportee" and ended up identifying the song's anonymous subjects. His book speaks to the universality of the immigrant experience.

Miranda and 28 of her friends — including DiFranco, Saturday Night Live's Sasheer Zamata and TV On The Radio's Kyp Malone — collaborated on "Midnight Oil" in support of the Standing Rock protest.

It's rare for a band to make a comeback album like Last Place that stands up alongside its best work.

Nigerian singer Eno Williams has crafted a collection of irresistible, multidimensional anthems that reach far beyond the borders of geography, music and emotion.

The rising alt-country troubadour gives a biblical underdog a rare shot at the spotlight in this clear-eyed anthem of renewal.

The musical connection between Cuba and New Orleans, which runs deeper than many listeners realize, forms a strong subtext on the next Preservation Hall Jazz Band album, So It Is.

The Secret Society bandleader says his latest composition explores "the present-day folklore that we call conspiracy theories" — no tinfoil hat required.

Benjamin John Power's noisier impulses mask a symphonic scope of veritable Vangelis proportions.

John Talabot and Axel Boman's first album together produces feedback drones, new age psychedelia, and leftfield house.