'Tres Palabras,' Four Songs: Our Favorite Latin Songs This Week
This week's Alt.Latino playlist additions feature the latest Latin pop hits and a timeless performer who paved the way over 60 years ago.
Music Reviews
First Listen: Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram, 'Kingfish'
The 20-year-old guitar phenom understands the blues as a lifeline, a malleable language, a way of being in the world.
First Listen: Brad Mehldau, 'Finding Gabriel'
The jazz pianist's swing-for-the-fences opus references Old Testament prophets and collides retro-futurist synthesizers with horns and strings.
Decades Later, Nat Turner Rebellion Makes Its Debut With 'Laugh To Keep From Crying'
The R&B group recorded in Philadelphia in the early '70s, but their debut is only just being released. The album is all over the map, but its passion and bristling intelligence is noteworthy.
Wynton Marsalis Imagines Buddy Bolden's Jazz On-Screen: 'He Was Bringing Fire'
Decorated jazz composer Wynton Marsalis talks about creating music inspired by an artist he's never heard play, Charles "Buddy" Bolden, for the film Bolden.
First Listen: A.A. Bondy, 'Enderness'
A.A. Bondy channels his eternal weariness into evocative blurs of languid, hypnotic sound.
Lizzo Proves She's Ready For The Big Time With 'Cuz I Love You'
Singer, rapper and dancer Lizzo has been playing the flute since she was in junior high. The diverse set of songs on her new album showcase an immensely ambitious — and talented — artist.
Herbie Hancock Aims Jazz Day All-Star Concert Towards A World In 'Turmoil'
In Melbourne for its eighth iteration, the All-Star Global Concert brought together marquee names in jazz around a concert program of international, but borderless, collaboration.
Heather Woods Broderick Paints A Portrait Of Solitude With 'Invitation'
When Broderick moved from Brooklyn to rural Oregon, she encountered a sense of isolation and impermanence. Her latest album, Invitation, is a portrait of that upheaval.
First Listen: Tank And The Bangas, 'Green Balloon'
The indescribable New Orleans band fulfills both its vision and creates something beyond its imagination.