8 Tracks: Music for movies of the mind
Music can shift, uplift or even subvert a scene. This week on 8 Tracks, we play music supervisor, imagining songs by Kamasi Washington and Carin León on the big screen.
Music & Culture
Tiny Desk Concert: 311
What better way to spend March 11 than with 311 bringing love and nostalgia to the Tiny Desk.
Why the rapper known as Residente delayed releasing his most recent album
Rapper Residente talks about his activism and the release of his second solo album: Lyrics No Longer Matter. He initially delayed the release due to what he calls a "macabre genocide" in Gaza.
After facing criticism, Israel has revised its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest
Eden Golan's original song, titled "October Rain," has been renamed "Hurricane" after objections that it was not politically neutral. Israel's public broadcaster will reveal the amended song Sunday.
Regional Mexican music is having a moment on the world stage
Beyoncé may have gone country, but she's far from the only one. Snoop Dogg, Bad Bunny and Karol G are just the latest artists who look to rural areas, specifically in Mexico, for musical inspiration.
Kim Gordon on her intense, disorienting, beat-driven new solo album, 'The Collective'
The artist's radically inventive new album produced with Justin Raisen plays like an apt distillation of what it's like to live right now.
Crooner Steve Lawrence, who also appeared on Broadway and on TV, dies at 88
Lawrence's hits include "I've Gotta Be Me" and "Go Away Little Girl." For decades he was part of the singing duo, Steve and Eydie, with his wife Eydie Gorme who died in 2013.
Steve Lawrence, singer and half of popular stage duo Steve & Eydie, dies at 88
Steve Lawrence, a singer and top stage act who as a solo performer and in tandem with his wife Eydie Gorme kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era, died Thursday.
Meet Molly Lewis, professional whistler
Molly Lewis is a professional whistler with a new album out. You may have also heard her work on the Barbie movie.
Taylor Swift's Singapore leg spurs bad blood in SE Asia. Neighbors can't shake it off
Singapore made an exclusive deal to host Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concerts, locking out other Southeast Asian destinations.