Mon Laferte: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
The Chilean vocalist and her orchestra's combination of Mexican folkloric and European chamber music make for a musical and visual treat.
Music
Moonchild (feat. Lalah Hathaway), 'Tell Him'
Over a bouncy, drum-heavy groove and dreamy keys, Moonchild lead singer Amber Navran tries to put things back in order after a relationship goes sour.
World Cafe 30th Anniversary Playlist: 2003
It was the year of "Stacy's Mom," "Seven Nation Army" and "Hey Ya," along with several excellent albums from singer-songwriters and Warren Zevon's final studio album.
Opera singer Maria Ewing, known for her dramatic intensity, has died at age 71
Acclaimed for her fearless performances in operas by Strauss and Bizet, Ewing also partly inspired Passing, a film written and directed by her daughter, Rebecca Hall.
Jazz trio Artifacts gets to the point quickly, and sticks to it, on a new album
Flute player Nicole Mitchell, cellist Tomeka Reid and drummer Mike Reed all came up on Chicago's new jazz scene about 20 years ago. Now they revisit their roots on ... and then there's this.
Percussionist James Mtume, the beat behind Miles Davis and later 'Juicy,' dies at 76
Mtume brought, in Miles Davis' words, "a deep African-American groove" to the trumpet legend's band before later exploring neo-minimalist funk and R&B. And then there was "Juicy."
Review: The Weeknd, 'Dawn FM'
Music journalist Kiana Fitzgerald reviews The Weeknd's new album, Dawn FM.
Michael Lang, a co-creator of the Woodstock festival, has died at 77
Lang helped make Woodstock a defining moment of the 1960s. He once called it "a test of whether people of our generation really believed in one another and the world we were struggling to create."
An album made entirely of endangered bird sounds beat Taylor Swift on a top 50 chart
Songs Of Disappearance is an entire album of calls from endangered Australian birds. Last month, it briefly perched at No. 3 on the country's top 50 albums chart – ahead of Taylor Swift.
Oscar-winning lyricist Marilyn Bergman has died at 93
Alongside her husband, Alan, she won two Academy Awards for Best Original Song for "The Windmills of Your Mind" and "The Way We Were."