Listen to David Byrne’s “Music For Valentines” playlist
"Music For Valentines" features 100 gecs, Andrew Bird, NNAMDÏ, Weyes Blood, The Arcs, Dry Cleaning, Alice Longyu Gao, Midland, SZA, Stromae, Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, Rosalía, and more.
Our Native Daughters
Our Native Daughters (Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla & Allison Russell) played Carnegie Hall (pics)
Our Native Daughters, aka Black women singer-songwriters and banjo players Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell, released their debut album together, Songs of Our Native Daughters, in 2019, with a documentary about them following in 2021...
Amythyst Kiah shares Green Day’s “Hitchin’ A Ride” off new covers EP, touring
The EP also includes her recently-released Joy Division and Tori Amos covers.
Today’s livestreams (Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, A$AP Rocky, Pixies, more)
plus Princess Nokia, Drive-By Truckers, Fleet Foxes, Beck, Portugal. The Man, Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.
The War on Drugs, Robin Pecknold (playing new music) & more set for voting registration livestream
Daniel Rossen and Christopher Bear of Grizzly Bear, Kyp Malone and Jaleel Bunton of TV On The Radio, Kevin Morby, Waxahatchee, Hand Habits, and more are also set to perform.
NPR’s top 25 albums & songs of 2019
As you'd expect from NPR, their lists represent tons of styles of music, including country, rap, indie, jazz, modern classical, Afro-pop, R&B, reggaeton, electronic, experimental, pop, soul, and more.