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Ibrahim Maalouf Plays Umm Kulthum

6:05pm March 31, 2016

Born in Lebanon and raised in France, trained in both Western classical and traditional Arabic music, the trumpeter has always bridged worlds. He puts a jazz spin on the Arab world's most famous star.

Explosions In The Sky's new album, The Wilderness, is out April 1.

Music & Culture

All Songs +1: Explosions In The Sky Finds Its Way Through 'The Wilderness'

3:34pm March 31, 2016

Members of Explosion in the Sky talk about the challenge of making "The Wilderness," the most adventurous record yet from an already sonically mind-bending band.

Music & Culture

Take Alt.Latino's 'Ladies Of Spring' Mix For A Spin

3:03pm March 31, 2016

by Jasmine Garsd

Cuban disco, Colombian love ballads, breezy Honduran-American anthems and winding Brazilian hip-hop: Meet the women who are here to start the season off right.

Ross Shapiro, photographed in his home for the Athens Potluck project, in 2012.

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Songs We Love: The Glands, 'Straight Down'

1:07pm March 31, 2016

by Lars Gotrich

Ross Shapiro was that surly record store clerk, but was also the frontman for one of the great late '90s Athens bands. We remember the late musician with a perfectly perverse rock 'n' roll dance song.