LAMC Discoveries: New Artists You Should Know About
This week, we share our favorite discoveries from the annual Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York.
Music & Culture
R. Kelly's Live Tour Meets Opposition In Georgia
The R&B icon's concert in Fulton County, Ga., is scheduled to go on despite a local effort to cancel it.
Music Review: 'Banzeiro,' Dona Onete
It took Dona Onete seven decades to release her first album. Now the Amazon-native tours the world singing songs about love, sensuality, nature and her native Brazil. Music reviewer Michelle Mercer says on her latest album, Banzeiro, Onete is a songwriter fully alive to her world.
LL Cool J To Become Kennedy Center's First Hip-Hop Honoree
The rapper is part of an evolving appreciation of hip-hop for the Kennedy Center — and is also the youngest honoree in its history.
Latin Roots: Café Tacvba
Hear a live performance of songs from the band's latest release, Jei BeiBi.
Songs We Love: Saba Abraha, 'Wicked Ways'
Music is doing its job when it makes you feel like you can actually sit with your angst.
First Listen: The Districts, 'Popular Manipulations'
The latest album by the Philadelphia-based indie rockers is their best yet.
First Listen: Downtown Boys, 'Cost of Living'
The songs on Cost Of Living are a big leap forward in the evolution of one of punk's most revolutionary groups.
Songs We Love: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy With The Roots Of Music, 'The Curse'
Pan-generational brass bands join this joyous, weird trip through New Orleans cemeteries and streets, with cameos from stalwarts of local street culture.
First Listen: Alex Williams, 'Better Than Myself'
The 26-year-old country singer is a student of old-line outlaw country and its tradition of leathery, knowing tall talk.