The Top 10 Solo Guitar Records Of 2016
Across ambient, jazz, psychedelic and American Primitive styles, this year proved that the possibilities of the guitar continue to flourish.
Music & Culture
Songs We Love: Silver Torches, 'Woman In Rust'
Erik Walters' song builds and builds, piling on pleasing ingredients (churning guitars here, a nice little piano melody there) en route to one grand chorus.
Watch Willie Nelson Perform 'Me And Bobby McGee'
The legend helps honor Kris Kristofferson as part of the Austin City Limits New Year's Eve celebration.
Mourning Stars Through Streams, Screens And Communities
In a year of stunning loss, music fans found new opportunities to create virtual communities, continuing conversations their departed icons started.
Watch The Robert Glasper Experiment Perform 'Day To Day' Live For KCRW
Glasper's quartet keeps building on its genre-hopping mix of jazz, R&B, hip-hop and more.
'Music Was Always The Escape': Omar Kamal On Shaping His Artistic Identity
The Palestinian jazz crooner, who was 8 years old at the start of the Second Intifada, says hearing Frank Sinatra changed his life. "[He] has got all credit for me going into singing," Kamal says.
Songs We Love: Studio OST, 'ITCZ'
Producers Galcher Lustwerk and Alvin Aronson make music as ceaseless, freakish and leisurely as a belt of warmed air through the endless LA summer.
Cass McCombs, 'Opposite House' (Live At Pickathon)
The enigmatic songwriter performs the lead single from his latest album, Mangy Love, at the Oregon music festival.
Taylor Mac On Making A Better World In 24 Hours
In October, the performance artist gave a marathon day-long show. Mac says the performance was a way to not only critique the world's problems — but also imagine new ways of existing.
In The Colorist, Emiliana Torrini Has Met Her True Match
The Icelandic singer's new collaboration with the Belgian orchestra The Colorist lends her striking voice even more immediacy.