Music & Culture

On "I'm Not," Daddy Issues deals with a deep personal trauma through a languid take on pop, rock and punk.

Hear the first single from the punk-fueled power-pop band's third album, Good Night, Tomorrow. It's got a bit of that heartland boogie.

For all the band's sprawling and experimental rock albums, Can also had a healthy appetite for singles, which Mute Records will release in a compilation due June 16.

Wyatt discusses the firsthand experience with incarceration that informed her album Felony Blues. "People get stuck in the system," she says. "I feel like that's a great injustice to our society."

Strings and horns are integral to Oxbow's dark, perverse, Baroque rock experimentalism.

Lawrence English considers it his job to document sound, to question the mechanics underpinning our ways of listening. It's not always simple.

D.C. producer and songwriter Jules Hale zeroes in on the darker, denser side of her sound with a dream-pop salve for women, who she says "deserve to swim in euphoria for a bit."

Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Dave Holland, Dick Hyman and Ira Gitler are recipients of the Jazz Masters award — the highest honor the U.S gives to a jazz musician or advocate.

A musicians' musician who shunned the spotlight, Amonkar was a revered singer in the Hindustani (North Indian) tradition. According to Indian press reports, she died today after a brief illness.