Music

Before making a pot of black sesame porridge, Eskimeaux performed "Tour Mate Sex Dream" and "Rearview" live for #WAXnEGGS. Watch that and a set from Japanese Breakfast, filmed in a D.C. home.

Aliens are bent on abducting a drunk man in the middle of the night. But, with a six-pack of beer tucked under his arm, he doesn't go quietly.

In an intimate studio session, the Americana singer sounds like she could be sitting cross-legged in a lonely bedroom, a diary of still-fresh heartbreak falling open by her knee.

Calle 13 singer and rapper Ileana Cabra has gone solo. Hear a live set recorded at Philadelphia's NuevoFest.

Steve Karmen wrote a number of famous jingles, including Budweiser Beer's, "When You Say Bud," the New York State song, "I Love New York", the jingle, "Here Comes the King," the Exxon Song and Wrigley Spearmint Gum's, "Carry The Big Fresh Flavor." He also composed several music scores for motion pictures during the 1960s, and performed briefly as a Calypso singer, achieving some recognition in Trinidad during that time. Karmen is the recipient of 16 Clio Awards. NPR explores how the business of writing the music for advertising has changed.

Pop stars Abel Tesfaye and Ebba Nilsson court our shadow sides with songs about sex, drugs, sex on drugs, and — crucially — sex as drugs.