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With electro-cumbia, porro, and bullerengue rhythms, Miss Colombia takes a thread and needle from Lido Pimienta's heart to a country that doesn't always love her back.
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"I went through a breakup of a 15-year relationship. And my therapy on an everyday basis is to go in and write songs," Brandy Clark says of her string- and horn-laden album, Your Life is a Record.
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The band kicks off its fourth decade with a string of spiky, aggressive three-minute rock songs whose jagged edges hide a throbbing heart.
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The jazz pianist's swing-for-the-fences opus references Old Testament prophets and collides retro-futurist synthesizers with horns and strings.
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Lucette avoids strummed guitars in favor of spartan digital sounds on her new album produced by Sturgill Simpson.
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The 20-year-old guitar phenom understands the blues as a lifeline, a malleable language, a way of being in the world.
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A.A. Bondy channels his eternal weariness into evocative blurs of languid, hypnotic sound.
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The indescribable New Orleans band fulfills both its vision and creates something beyond its imagination.
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Tacocat retains its signature snark and surf-pop without sugarcoating the effects of the emotionally-draining political landscape.
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Giddens links folk instruments and traditions of the African-American diaspora with those of Francesco Turrisi, a pianist and master of the frame drum.
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Front Porch is not only a return home to Joy Williams' stripped-down, acoustic palette, but also an inquiry into the very meaning of home.
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The Felice Brothers' folk-rock sound and vision has matured and focused, and the band does its best at making sense of our modern times.