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Vida stars Melissa Barrera (left) and Mishel Prada as sisters Lyn and Emma on the Starz cable network.

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'Vida,' The Groundbreaking Cable Show That Gets Latinx Narratives Right

10:25am June 12, 2018

by Felix Contreras

This week, Alt.Latino talks to Vida show runner Tanya Saracho about portraying Latinx stories of queerness, family and gentefication with an eye toward nuance onscreen and representation offscreen.

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Willie Nelson sings about outliving friends, surviving death hoaxes and more on his latest album, Last Man Standing.

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Willie Nelson On World Cafe

9:43am June 12, 2018

by Talia Schlanger

With a career spanning more than five decades, Nelson is an American treasure. Over a cup of coffee, the 85-year-old talks about outliving old friends, practicing martial arts and life on a tour bus.

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Rayland Baxter Realizes His 'Strange American Dream'

9:37am June 12, 2018

by Bruce Warren

A song written around the time of the 2016 election captures Baxter's mindset; somewhere between a sense of childlike wonder and disbelief at the good and evil of the country.

The Shacks performed an 11-song concert at WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio.

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Watch The Shacks Perform Live For WGBH's Front Row Boston Series

5:00am June 12, 2018

The Shacks make woozy rock reminiscent of The Zombies. Watch an intimate concert recorded inside WGBH's Fraser Performance Studio.

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Chancha Via Circuito: Magical Musical Realism And The Dance Floor

5:16pm June 11, 2018

by Catalina Maria Johnson

Argentine producer Pedro Canales conjures dance-worthy musical spells on his new album as Chancha Via Circuito.

Katrina Lenk and Tony Shalhoub perform "Omar Sharif" from The Band's Visit at the Tony Awards on Sunday night.

'The Band's Visit' And Harry Potter Win Big At A Quieter Tony Awards

4:47pm June 11, 2018

by Linda Holmes

The Tony Awards paid off for The Band's Visit, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the Angels in America revival and a scrappy theater kid named Bruce Springsteen.

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Yoyoka Soma, an 8-year-old drummer from Japan, loves herself some John Bonham.

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Watch This 8-Year-Old Girl Crush Led Zeppelin's 'Good Times Bad Times'

4:32pm June 11, 2018

by Emily Abshire

Yoyoka Soma played the song for the Hit Like A Girl drumming contest. She didn't take home the gold, but she's clearly winning at life.

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Remembering Lorraine Gordon, Backbone Of The World's Greatest Jazz Club

3:24pm June 11, 2018

by Nate Chinen

Head of the Village Vanguard, the oldest and most respected jazz club in New York, Lorraine Gordon's affinity for jazz was unprecedented.

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Spiritualized Announces First New Album In Six Years, Shares Two Songs

1:43pm June 11, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

J. Spaceman made his new Spiritualized album, And Nothing Hurt, entirely in his east London home. But the first two singles, "A Perfect Miracle" and "I'm Your Man," sound every bit as grand.

An undated portrait of Danny Kirwan, a guitarist during Fleetwood Mac's earliest years. Kirwan died at age 68 on June 8.

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Fleetwood Mac's 'Forgotten Hero,' Guitarist Danny Kirwan, Has Died

1:09pm June 11, 2018

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The guitarist who helped define the band's early, bluesy sound, but who was fired from the band in 1972 and was homeless for many years, died Friday at age 68.