Cordae: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
The DMV-bred emcee's Tiny Desk home concert is a charismatic combo of fan favorites and cuts from his new album, From a Birds Eye View.
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On 'Dawn FM,' The Weeknd is both suffering and saved
On his new album, The Weeknd lets us consider whether we would like to age into the shape of our fears or the shape of our most heroic dreams.
RuPaul, 'Smile'
"Smile," like many tracks on RuPaul's latest album, mimics the sounds of early bubblegum hyperpop but waters them down in an act of bleak corporate reappropriation.
The Gershwin Prize for Popular Song is going to pop star Lionel Richie
Richie, responsible for a seemingly endless catalog of hits, will be awarded the songwriting prize this spring by the Library of Congress.
How Ronnie Spector and 'Be My Baby' became a pop-culture sound of sex in 1987
Twice in the same year, the song "Be My Baby" — featuring the voice of Ronnie Spector, who died this week — became the sound that signaled something memorably, indelibly sexy.
Boy Harsher (feat. Mariana Saldaña), 'Machina'
Boy Harsher teams up with fellow darkwaver Mariana Saldaña of BOAN for a pulsing, '80s-inspired synth-pop track that single-handedly demands a fog machine for your listening pleasure.
Robert Glasper, 'Black Superhero'
Glasper's piano sets a chiming gospel loop, over which Killer Mike and Big K.R.I.T. rap verses about perseverance and positivity.
Saxophonist Tony Malaby's unlikely pandemic practice space: the New Jersey Turnpike
Saxophonist Tony Malaby, unlucky at the beginning of the pandemic after catching a very early case of the virus — the subsequent isolation imposed on his playing led him to a unique solution.
Ronnie Spector, lead singer of The Ronettes, has died at age 78
Ronnie Spector, lead singer of the 1960s girl group The Ronettes, has died at 78 after a bout with cancer. She recorded a string of pop hits including "Walking In The Rain" and "Be My Baby."
Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes has died at age 78
Spector had suffered from cancer. She recorded a string of pop hits in the 1960s including "Walking In The Rain" and "Be My Baby."