Music & Culture

For the past 18 years, the Bad Plus, has been playing catchy, high energy music and redefining what a jazz trio can be. This year pianist Ethan Iverson announced he is leaving the trio. But contrary to popular belief, Bad Plus found a new pianist and released a new album.

Featuring members of Pelican, Locrian and Bloodiest, RYLR's forthcoming Actual Existence goes straight for the gut-wrenching histrionics and heart of emo.

The Afrofuturist music video is the first from the highly anticipated Black Panther soundtrack album, co-produced by Lamar and set to drop Feb. 9.

"Worth It" at first seems to echo from down a hallway, only to pull in closer and closer as it rolls along, its initial tentativeness giving way to something commanding and sublime.

Watch the young British sensation Sheku Kanneh-Mason's lovely, classical-inspired take on "No Woman, No Cry."

Esencia Solar, recorded while his partner was expecting the couple's first child, is full of life-affirming peace and joy.

The song is from Half Waif's forthcoming album, Lavender, which songwriter Nandi Rose Plunkett says focuses on "themes of aging and collapse."

Almost 50 years after its release, the album remains a vision of universal healing, spiritual self-preservation in times of trouble and the god that appears when you seek her out.

The band's album The Thread That Keeps Us is jangly desert mashup of Western Americana, Latin influence and any other sounds Calexico has picked up along the trail.