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Scouring For New Music With 'Alt.Latino'

7:59am August 20, 2017

by Felix Contreras

Alt.Latino host Felix Contreras recently returned from the Latin American Music Conference in New York and presents some musical gems he discovered there.

Robin Pecknold, of the band Fleet Foxes, felt he needed to turn his attention back to the parts of his life that music had eclipsed in order to grow as an artist.

Music & Culture

How Time Off — And Surfing — Influenced Fleet Foxes' 'Crack-Up'

6:10pm August 19, 2017

In 2011, the band put its career on hold at the height of its success. Singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold says he needed to turn his attention back to other parts of his life to grow as an artist.

Ann Powers is NPR Music's critic and correspondent. You can read more of her work on The Record blog.

'Good Booty': Backing Up How Music And Sex Helped Shape American Culture

6:10pm August 19, 2017

by Dwane Brown

In her new book Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America's primary erotic art form.

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will skip the Kennedy Center Honors later this year. It will be the fourth time in 40 years of the event that the sitting president won't be attendance.

President Trump To Skip Kennedy Center Honors, Highlighting Rift With Artists

4:45pm August 19, 2017

by Miles Parks

Three of the five honorees had already spoken out against the president and said they either planned to boycott a White House event or were considering it.

Power Of Peace is a new album from Carlos Santana and The Isley Brothers.

Music & Culture

Santana And The Isley Brothers Come Together For 'Power Of Peace'

5:52am August 19, 2017

by Felix Contreras

For this new collaborative album, the icons aimed for timelessness — a sound "frozen in immortality, eternity and infinity," Santana says. Power Of Peace was released July 28.