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| - This week, country music icon Loretta Lynn died at age 90. Over the course of her 60-year career, Lynn brought unparalleled candor about the domestic realities of working-class women to country songwriting, all while never losing touch with her identity as a simultaneously modern and down-to-earth country woman who could communicate that to crowds.
- In the 1970s, Joyce Moreno seemed likely to join a list of Brazilian luminaries that included João Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim. But her album Natureza remained unreleased — until now, with a release on the British imprint Far Out Recordings. “Like a previously unseen Polaroid,” says writer Andy Beta, “the album captures Moreno's music at that moment, strictly on her own terms.”
- When Yamen Mekdad and Mark Gergis met in 2018, the pair combined their love of Syrian cassettes into a project aiming to save them and share them more widely. Now, their collection — called the Syrian Cassette Archives — is living and growing online.
- For the Mexican band Son Rompe Pera, tradition and modernity coexist peacefully. Its members cut their teeth performing as a traditional marimba band — but as they grew up, they ventured into punk and psychedelic music, and started to think about rock and cumbia as allied genres instead of foes.
- Watch Ethel Cain perform “Crush” and “Thoroughfare” live at WNXP’s Sonic Cathedral.
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- Country singer Ashley McBryde has released two celebrated major-label albums and, this year, was nominated for five Country Music Association awards. For her next step she could have released another record of tough and tender country songs, like the ones that established her. And yes, she recorded that album — but then, she decided another project had to come first: Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville, a witty concept album about the residents of a fictional hamlet, in the long tradition of character-driven tales in country music.
- Rapper Open Mike Eagle has always been attuned to underground hip-hop's bigger picture, in ways that show how often he's had to keep on his toes. In an interview about his new album, Component System with the Auto Reverse, the artist discusses hip-hop's repurposing spirit, feeling a divided sense of loyalty to Chicago and LA and making sense of rap's "golden era.”
- This week on New Music Friday from All Songs Considered: the fifth full-length album from WILLOW, a new release from musically omnivorous Chicago artist NNAMDÏ, the latest record from venerated space-jazz ensemble Sun Ra Arkestra and more great albums out this week.
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| As part of our El Tiny takeover at the Tiny Desk, we shared a Tiny Desk (home) concert from musician (and former Peruvian Minister of Culture) Susana Baca that proves her status as a curator of folklore and culture of the highest order. Plus, Mexican singer-songwriter Carla Morrison stopped by the Tiny Desk for an intimate, emotional performance. (“I’m not saying you should have a box of tissues nearby while you watch Carla Morrison’s performance,” says my colleague Felix Contreras, “but it came in handy for me.”) |
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