Jorge Drexler: Tiny Desk Concert
The Uruguayan singer-songwriter is one of the finest lyricists operating today. Watch his stunning performance behind the Tiny Desk.
Music
Songs We Love: Benjamin Lazar Davis, 'Choosing Sides'
Davis dances the pas de deux of a divided heart in a song co-written with Alex Toth of Rubblebucket,
The Callout
When someone in your community transgresses, do you banish them? Purge them in an attempt to make the community safer for everyone?
New Music Friday: April 13
A run through some of the week's best new albums, including Korean surf-rock band Say Sue Me, singer Juliana Hatfield's surprisingly emotional tribute to Olivia Newton-John, Tinashe and more.
Invisibilia: Punks Policing Their Own
When someone in your community transgresses, do you banish them? Purge them in an attempt to make the community safer for everyone?
Songs We Love: Elise Davis, 'Don't Bring Me Flowers'
Elise Davis frankly explores sexual desire and casual relationships in a buoyantly arranged song co-written with Maren Morris and Frank Romano.
'Talking About Heaven': John Prine Proves That Old Trees Grow Stronger
The venerated songwriter discusses learning to love his voice and how years of scribbled lyrics on yellow legal pads became The Tree of Forgiveness, his first album of new material in over a decade.
Alison Krauss & Union Station On Mountain Stage
Listen to this retrospective, in which the bluegrass legend performs cuts from Lonely Runs Both Ways with her iconic band during a 2005 appearance.
A Diva Deconstructed In 'Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami'
Sophie Fiennes' film about the legendary performer "achieve[s] a level of intimacy and candor ... that's uncommon for documentaries about figures who control their images this closely."
La Mecánica Popular: Radical Afro-Latin Futurism
With hints of chicha and electrified Miles Davis, La Mecánica Popular makes the ancient sound like the future on their new album, Rosa Cruz.