First Listen: Sidestepper, 'Supernatural Love'
Richard Blair reassembles his innovative Afro-Colombian pop band, and the result never looks back. Instead, it shimmers and percolates while ignoring boundaries altogether.
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First Listen: Junior Boys, 'Big Black Coat'
The long-running duo returns with another set of inventive, era-spanning, synth-driven techno-pop that sets Jeremy Greenspan's alternately husky and delicate voice against synthetic backgrounds.
First Listen: KING, 'We Are KING'
The R&B trio, whose 2011 debut EP broke the Internet, finally follows it with an album of dreamy, idiosyncratic, self-produced soul music.
Jaap van Zweden Named Next Music Director Of The New York Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic has appointed the 55-year-old Dutch conductor and violinist as its next music director. Does this mark a new artistic direction for the vaunted orchestra?
New Release By Numero Revisits Ork Records' Complete Catalog
Terry Ork was a mystery man who crashed the Warhol scene and founded his own record label. Rock historian Ed Ward traces the brief, tumultuous existence of Ork Records.
Viking's Choice: Sunwatchers, 'Herd Of Creeps'
The psychedelic New York freak-jazz band runs a James Brown rave-up through Hawkwind's space-rock machine.
Benjamin Clementine On World Cafe
Music and an incredible story from the Mercury Prize winner, who started on the streets of Paris.
Viking's Choice: Save Ends, 'I Fell Asleep'
The pop-punk band returns three years after the energetic and earnest Warm Hearts, Cold Hands, sounding moodier and more reflective than ever.
The Thistle & Shamrock: The Road Of Tears
Hear songs, by Battlefield Band and others, that bear witness to the experiences of immigrants.
Songs We Love: Luther Dickinson (feat. Mavis Staples), 'Ain't No Grave'
With a little help from one of the legendary voices in Southern soul, a North Mississippi Allstar pays tribute to his late father, Memphis music legend Jim Dickinson.