Larry June: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
Larry June is the indie-rap hustle personified. Though the Bay Area emcee has a prodigious output, his (home) concert reflects the comfortable, laid-back tone of his records.
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Remembering Scott 'Scooter' Stewart, lost to COVID, with Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Free Bird'
Shannon Hunt remembers mechanic Scott "Scooter" Stewart of Shiloh, Ill., who died from COVID. She calls him her "bonus dad."
Meghan Stabile, promoter who united jazz and hip-hop, dead at 39
"We get so stuck on categories and labels that you completely miss the point of really beautiful, authentic forms of art," Stabille told Jazz Night in America in 2015.
Beabadoobee, '10:36'
The latest single from Beabadoobee's forthcoming album has a magnetic, rough-around-the-edges sound with sweetness at its core.
Valley of Weights, 'I Was a Wartime Draughtsman'
On its debut double album, Valley of Weights throws a haymaker into the contemporary psych scene.
Willi Carlisle, 'Vanlife'
Willi Carlisle speaks his truth, of falling down the economic ladder, to set up space for punch lines galore in this honky-tonk romp.
For pianist Vadim Neselovskyi, Ukraine war adds urgency to his most personal work
On a new album, Odesa, written in tribute to his father, the pianist, former child prodigy and composer also paints a portrait of the album's namesake, currently in the midst of a Russian invasion.
On 'Barbarism,' Katie Alice Greer builds a discordant world that's all her own
The former frontperson of punk band Priests delivers an equally jarring and lush solo debut album.
K-pop sensation BTS is going on a break but promises to return
The boy band announced their break during a dinner filmed for social media. The group officially debuted in 2013.
Bonny Light Horseman, 'California'
Despite the addition of a dulcimer, the supergroup's new song leaves behind the old-world feel that defined its debut.