First Listen: TEEN, 'Good Fruit'
On its dark but buoyant new album, the artful pop band explores the complexities and contradictions in love, loss and learning to leave the past behind.
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First Listen: Della Mae, 'The Butcher Shoppe'
Returning from hiatus, the bluegrass band showcases its combination of playfulness and muscle as a performing unit.
First Listen: Ryuichi Sakamoto, 'BTTB (20th Anniversary Edition)'
The composer and multi-instrumentalist's newly reissued 14th album is an intimate collection of brief solo piano compositions, first released in Japan in 1998 and hard to find since.
How Pianist Kris Bowers Found His Inner Virtuoso For Oscar-Nominated 'Green Book'
The 29-year-old pianist and composer who performs all the on-screen music in the Oscar-nominated movie, Green Book, explains how it was done.
Terence Blanchard, Longtime Composer For Spike Lee, On His First Oscar Nomination
Terence Blanchard received his first Oscar nomination for the BlacKkKlansman score. The 56-year-old jazz trumpeter from New Orleans has been Spike Lee's right-hand composer since Jungle Fever in 1991.
Identidad 'Vieja' Y Nueva: Our Favorite Latin Songs This Week
On this week's Alt.Latino, expect a self-loving R&B track from Noa Sainz, Tomasa del Real's heart-wrenching reggaeton and an electro-trap tune by La Dame Blanche.
The Women Behind The Songs: Ester Dean
Fun, fearless and freethinking, Ester Dean's vivacious personality comes across in her work. The songwriter has written hits for Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry.
A Thousand People In The Street: 'For What It's Worth' Captured Youth In Revolt
Though often associated with the Vietnam War, Buffalo Springfield's signature song was inspired by a confrontation back home, which erupted on a few famous blocks in Los Angeles.
The Thistle & Shamrock: Love Songs
Hear music revolving around the love of whisky and homeland with Maura O'Connell, Shooglenifty and Moya Brennan.
The Pedrito Martinez Group: Tiny Desk Concert
The Afro-Cuban percussionist mesmerizes with his almost otherworldly talent on congas.