Charli XCX's Mixtape 'Number 1 Angel' Is A Fantastic Pop Diary
While we await the follow-up to 2014's Sucker, Charli XCX has released a mixtape that indulges in the margins of slinky R&B, syrupy hip-hop and bizzaro electro-pop.
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TGIRRD: Thank Goodness It's Record Release Day!
When music is distributed digitally — and available for advance streaming — what does record release day really mean? Plus, hear the latest additions to World Cafe's new-music playlist.
+1: Remembering Elliott Smith's Masterpiece, 'Either/Or,' 20 Years Later
Elliott Smith archivist and engineer Larry Crane discusses the challenges of making Smith's best album sound even better. Either/Or celebrates its 20th anniversary with a deluxe version.
Under Mary Ocher's Spell, A Spooky Village Comes 'To The Light'
Few records this year, so far, are as wondrous, pointed and odd as The West Against The People. Mary Ocher plays a spiritual guide in an occult-inspired video filmed in a rural German-Polish town.
A.B. Original Are The First Indigenous Artists To Win Annual Australian Music Prize
The hip-hop duo's independently released Reclaim Australia beat out Nick Cave and DD Dumbo, among others.
Songs We Love: Colouring, 'Heathen'
The electronic band wrote the lush and romantic "Heathen" about love, but also about believing in each other, even when it feels like we've lost ourselves.
Tank And The Bangas: Tiny Desk Concert
Tank And The Bangas' victory lap around the Tiny Desk was momentous, celebratory and deeply touching, with a flair and alchemy of styles that could come from New Orleans.
Joey DeFrancesco On Piano Jazz
The now-essential organist was only 20 years old when he joined Marian McPartland in 1991.
Songs We Love: Moor Mother, 'Deadbeat Protest'
Though Camae Ayewa shrouds her words in shards of sonic confrontation, her message is as blunt and compressed as her music: She's hungry, under attack, fists up, forever in peril.
Two David Bowie Albums Prepped For Record Store Day Release
A proper dig into the vault and a live show from 1974 will hit stores in late April.