The Thistle & Shamrock: Swannanoa Memories, Part 2
Hear more highlights from the gathering in the North Carolina mountains, captured over many years.
Music & Culture
Quilt On World Cafe
The Brooklyn band has solidified its psychedelic sound on its new album, Plaza. Hear a conversation and performance.
First Watch: The Wild Reeds, 'Everything Looks Better (In Hindsight)'
The sound of The Wild Reeds is the sound of three singers propelled by great rhythms and memorable songs. On "Everything Looks Better," they sing of nostalgia and the ways it tricks memories.
Thelma & Luis: An Alt.Latino Road Trip With Attitude
The lure of the open road was too much to resist this week, so Alt.Latino turns the volume up on a collection that includes Central American heavy metal, Cuban guitar jazz and Brazilian DJs.
Fox/Soper Duo Opens Portals To Neon Realms In 'I' Video
The synth/drum duo whirs and explodes like Sun Ra leading a psychotropic industrial punk band. Faces melt and blizzards dissolve ice mountains in Soper's video.
Watch Lapsley Perform 'Love Is Blind' Live In The Studio
The Liverpool singer performs a ballad from her debut album for KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic.
Songs We Love: Claude VonStroke, 'Who's Afraid Of Detroit (Octave One Remix)'
A instant community anthem upon its release 10 years ago, the driving tech-house track is reworked by the brotherly Detroit duo that inspired Claude VonStroke.
The Resurrected New York City Opera's Ambitious New Season
From the ashes of bankruptcy, can a rebooted company relive its glory days? Its new general director discusses the past, present and future.
Watch A Video For Quilt's 'Padova'
Quilt's music can in fact be a comforting blanket and this video, for the song "Padova," turns grief into imagery that is filled with melancholy and humor.
First Listen: Fear Of Men, 'Fall Forever'
Jessica Weiss exudes ambivalence as a singer, but the arrangements around her billow and bloom. On Fear Of Men's second album, darkness and light fuse to form multifaceted gems.