Music

Tiny Desk Concert with Land Lines

Land Lines: Tiny Desk Concert

by Bob Boilen

The Denver band's mysteriously swirling music isn't jazz or rock, classical or electronica. Instead, it's something singular, new and adventurous.
Carmen Staaf.

A Jazz Piano Christmas 2015

Kenny Barron, Fred Hersch, Carmen Staaf and Joey Alexander — a roster whose ages span more than 60 years — play solo renditions of their holiday favorites at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
"Juliana Huxtable own art 1": Untitled (Destroying Flesh) from the "UNIVERSAL CROP TOPS FOR ALL THE SELF CANONIZED SAINTS OF BECOMING" series, 2015

Heavenly Bodies

by Andy Battaglia

This year, a cast of progressive experimentalists, such as Arca, Juliana Huxtable and Elysia Crampton, among others, tackled matters of identity with an imaginative and expansive focus.