Latest Jazz Music
- Bad Bunny, Drake, And Our Favorite Latin Songs This Week
Looking for a playlist to celebrate Bad Bunny and Drake smashing records at Apple Music? This week's mix includes Mexican garage punk, Chilean EDM, and DJ Snake with Cardi B, Selena Gomez and Ozuna.(Image credit: Courtesy of the Artist) ... read more - Watchdog Group Finds Spooky Spotify Ad Is Too Scary For Kids, Causes ‘Distress’
In 60 seconds, the commercial showcases a medley of horror film tropes, including a maniacal doll that presumably kills a group of young people whenever they play a catchy pop song. (Image credit: Chester Bennington Original Source/Screenshot by NPR/Chester Bennington) ... read more - Meet Two New Voices Of The Guitar, From Players Known For Gonzo Punk
Wendy Eisenberg and Arian Shafiee both make rewardingly weird punk. But now, each is releasing an album for the solo guitar label VDSQ.(Image credit: YouTube) ... read more - Kamasi Washington Connects ‘Hub-Tones’ To Pan-African Ideology
Kamasi Washington's mesmerizing take on the tune by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard gets an equally transcendental visual treatment.(Image credit: YouTube) ... read more - Great Sand Dunes National Park Stars In Gregory Alan Isakov’s Video For ‘San Luis’
The mesmerizing, sprawling road video was beautifully shot by director Andy Mann.(Image credit: Still from video/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more - Alejandro Escovedo On World Cafe
The Crossing, Escovedo's latest album with Don Antonio, showcases the roots prowess the musician's known for, but also pushes in directions that you might not expect.(Image credit: Nancy Escovedo/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more - Sharon Jones Is The 21st Century’s Godmother Of Soul
The Augusta-born soul singer's ballads, floor-burners and soaring motivational anthems took the might of Motown's peak and sharpened it to fight the impossible.(Image credit: Photo Illustration: Paul R. Giunta/Getty Images and Angela Hsieh/NPR) ... read more - Au Revoir, Souris: Bono, Pharrell, Laurie Anderson Memorialize An Art Giant’s Cat
French artist Sophie Calle's cat died in 2014. To mourn him, Calle asked dozens of musicians — including Michael Stipe, The National and Jarvis Cocker — to memorialize him.(Image credit: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images) ... read more - After Heartbreak, Twain’s ‘Young God (Gotta Lotta Feeling)’ Is Resilient
The first single from Twain's New Miami Sound EP shines in the face of heartache, and thanks life for the lesson.(Image credit: Harrison Anderson/Courtesy of the artist) ... read more - With ‘Everybody Loves You,’ SOAK Lets Her Guard Down
In a new video, SOAK captures the young artist's fantasy of a party she thought she didn't want to join. (Image credit: YouTube) ... read more - New Mix: Sharon Van Etten, SOAK, Miya Folick & More
On this week's show, we reflect on life and death over popcorn, catch a blissful confession from SOAK, a plaintive apology sung by Miya Folick, and Sharon Van Etten's mid-career pivot to driving pop.(Image credit: Courtesy of the artists) ... read more - Florence + The Machine: Tiny Desk Concert
"I'm sorry I'm shy," Florence Welch told the crowd of NPR family and friends gathered for her Tiny Desk performance. "If this was a big gig, I'd probably be climbing all over here and running around."(Image credit: Heather Kim/NPR) ... read more - Getting ‘The Band’ Together: Questions For Nicholas Eames
Author Nicholas Eames's series The Band is a joyous mashup of classic rock and fantasy tropes — because if there were monsters, why wouldn't there be bands of celebrity mercenaries to slay them?(Image credit: ) ... read more - Through Slavery, Segregation And More, ‘La Bamba’ Has Been The Sound Of Survival
Sixty years ago, a Mexican folk tune sung entirely in Spanish became a rock and roll phenomenon. Generations after Ritchie Valens, young Latinos are still harnessing its power.(Image credit: Jessica Pons for NPR) ... read more - ‘SNL’ Spoofs Kanye West, Welcomes Back Paul Simon
The cold open revisited West's bizarre White House soliloquy, while Simon performed an emotional rendition of "Bridge Over Troubled Water."(Image credit: YouTube) ... read more