Today’s Top Tune: Jorge Drexler ‘Toco Madera’ 

It’s Friday the 13th, a day often tied to bad luck — but we’ve got the antidote. Oscar and GRAMMY-winning icon Jorge Drexler delivers “Toco Madera” (“Touch Wood”), an energetic, percussion-driven track rooted in the rhythms of Uruguayan candombe. Drexler plays with the phrase’s double meaning: the universal ritual of knocking on wood to avoid tempting fate, and the act of striking the wooden drum that marks candombe’s rhythmic pulse. The result is a clever, swinging celebration of language, rhythm, and collective power.