Music

Listening to Kurt Vile's "Like Exploding Stones" is like falling down the rabbit-hole. James Stewart of the Sun Ra Arkestra guests.

The Irish folk duo unveils its new album with a stirring lullaby.

A gauzy, slow-motion headbanger that gives 50 Foot Wave's Kristin Hersh space to bare her teeth.

Opera and cabaret comingle when two odd bedfellows bring music by Philip Glass, The Bangles, Peter Gabriel and Christoph Willibald Gluck to a "tiny apartment" in Manhattan.

Even with the petite moments of refusal, the whole performance feels like hip-hop's audition for an all-American passport.

Anti-government protesters are refusing to budge from their encampment in Wellington. One lawmaker is blasting music and COVID-19 vaccine announcements, a tactic that's drawn mixed reviews.

Valentine's Day reminds us we can relearn and redefine what it means to love and be loved. So, we offer some books, songs, and movies about passion, devotion, and relationships to take on the journey.

His beats on songs including Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" served as a crucial foundation for the burgeoning Memphis soul sound of the 1970s.

Raucous, outspoken and empowered, Davis, who died last week at 77, always knew what she wanted her music to be — raw — and she took control of her career in an era when few Black women could.

A contemporary brass band that grew out of one of Nashville's historically Black universities is helping to expand the lost musical identity of the country capital.