Music Review: 'St. Germain,' St. Germain
The DJ known as St. Germain has waited 15 years to release a following to his highly successful breakout record. Critic Tom Moon thinks it's a surprisingly creative return.
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KCRW Presents: BORNS
Watch psych-pop singer-songwriter Garrett Borns perform live in the KCRW studio.
Singer-Songwriter Andy Shauf Signs To Anti-, Releases New Song
Shauf's heartbreaking new song, "Jenny Come Home," follows the release, earlier this year, of the grim, breathtaking album The Bearer Of Bad News.
Hear 6 Latin American Artists Who Rock In Indigenous Languages
This week, Alt.Latino plays songs sung in indigenous Latin American languages: Mapuche, Tzotzil, Guarani, Quechua and Tz'utujil from Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Guatemala and Mexico.
Revisiting The Soul-Stirring Sounds Of Decades-Old Gospel Music
Post-war black gospel music shaped soul sounds through the mid-1970s, but it's increasingly hard to find today. Rock historian Ed Ward discusses a few recent gospel reissues.
John Lydon On World Cafe
The former Sex Pistol shares music from PiL's second studio album since re-forming in 2009.
Songs We Love: Mizan, '7 Billion'
Watch the Ethiopian-raised singer/musician go it alone, as she contemplates the fragility of humanity, and reminds us of the magnitude of being one out of many.
Viking's Choice: Pinkish Black, 'Bottom Of The Morning'
Pinkish Black swings moods like none other. The nine-minute "Bottom Of The Morning" runs through a woozy left-hand boogie, leading to a doomy, fuzzed-out denouement.
Music Review: 'Children Of The Light,' Children Of The Light
Children of the Light is two-thirds of the iconic Wayne Shorter Quartet. On their new self-titled album, Michelle Mercer says the trio's lively group improv is like a family dinner where everyone's talking at once yet somehow everyone's being heard.
Marlon James Becomes First Jamaican To Win Man Booker Prize
NPR's Audie Cornish talks to James, whose novel, A Brief History Of Seven Killings, won the Man Booker Prize Tuesday. The novel is an epic reimagining of the assassination attempt on Bob Marley.