This stop-motion music video for New Jackson's "The Night Mail" by Dublin-based animator Fergal Brennan explores a kind of visual entropy -- the ways images emerge and dissolve when captured with a ...

WHO: Brisa Gonzalez (vocals), Papi Fimbres (percussion), Fabiola Reyna (guitar). SOUNDS LIKE: The soundtrack to a bilingual avant-garde indie film yet to be made. FANS OF: La Luz, Guantanamo Baywatch, ...

Tom Petty really hit on something when he sang “the waiting is the hardest part.” For years, fans of the long-toothed rocker have been cooling their heels, awaiting an album that would recapture the ...

MALIBU, Calif. — Four years after the bluesy Mojo, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are roaring back with swagger and spleen on 13th studio album Hypnotic Eye, pugnacious rock 'n' roll that recalls ...

As early as November 2012, Tom Petty knew he and The Heartbreakers were already onto something special in the studio as they worked on the follow-up to 2010’s muscular Mojo. “This band is so efficient ...

Is it possible to feel sad listening to El Guincho? On a cold winter day in Seattle, when Pablo Diaz-Reixa (a.k.a. El Guincho) brought his Tropicalia-inspired rhythms to the KEXP studios, I felt like ...

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Holy Hive’s “Hypnosis” has the naive, dreamy qualities of classic lowrider soul, the post-doo-wop sound that is particularly prized on the West Coast. A lot of that feel stems from singer Paul Spring, ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify and Apple Music playlists at the bottom of the page. This time around, she ...