Today's Top Tune

Trippy Texan rockers Khruangbin and Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré mesh their synergy to honor Vieux’s late father, the great Ali Farka Toure, via a collaborative album called “Ali.” Building on Ali’s language of desert blues, let’s dive into 5:33 minutes of bliss-building on “Tonga Barra.”

It’s not easy to let yourself love after your heart has been broken, but take a listen to “Tin Cups” to hear the soulful sound of powerhouse ZZ Ward and Aloe Blacc’s collaboration as they team up to tell a story about a couple who make attempts at self-preservation.

“Yankee Foxtrot Hotel,” the fourth studio recording by Chicago’s Wilco, turned out to be their seminal album. A landmark recording released a week after 9/11, it was marred by conflict within the group, a change in drummers, and the final output before departing from Reprise Records. Yet, it became the band’s most successful and continues to be regarded as one of the best albums of the 2000s. To mark its 20th anniversary and a newly remastered and expanded edition that includes 18 unreleased tracks and an extensive booklet, we celebrate with one of our favorite “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” songs, “Jesus, Etc.”

Madi Diaz creates an emotive exploration of heartache on “Love Looks Different.” Named “one of 2021’s best kept secrets” by Rolling Stone, the Nashville- based artist produced her latest single dissecting the vestiges of love as it fades to finally find peace.

Madi Diaz closes out her tour with a sold-out show Fri. Nov. 18 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Moroccan Lounge

Bristol-based artist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Billy Nomates takes no prisoners on ‘saboteur forcefield,’ letting us into her interior world as she boldly wades into the traumas and tribulations of the last few years.

Decades later, Toronto’s Alvvays responds to Belinda Carlisle’s ‘80s mega-hit “Heaven Is A Place On Earth” with “Belinda Says,” an homage to the girls wiping tables, off of their newly-minted, bold and beautiful album “Blue Rev.”

Longtime pals Panda Bear and Sonic Boom mark their first joint release “Reset,” a playful batch of songs inspired by Sonic Boom’s vast collection of music from the ‘50s and ‘60s (check out their recent FREAKS ONLY guest mix for an even deeper dive) . “Everything’s Leading To This” sounds like a mathematical equation on suspended layers.

A contender for “Song of the Year” by the Latin Grammys, “Algo Es Mejor” — Spanish for “Something Is Better” — comes from Chilean singer Mon LaFerte’s sophomore album “Carmen 1940.” Written while driving through Malibu, Laferte says of the track, “I was very happy to be brave and embrace motherhood. The Pacific Ocean always inspires me. California landscapes are very much like my hometown. As I looked out the window I felt very free! Fulfilled and happy! Life is beautiful, I think many times it is just a matter of attitude. Something in me definitely changed."

Grammy-winning Christone “Kingfish” Ingram has some serious chops and goes head-to-head with indie hip-hop star and fellow Mississippian Big K.R.I.T. on this track, who adds his thought-provoking and captivating lyrics to “Another Life Goes By” (Mississippi Mix).

The long lost follow-up to Melody’s Echo Chamber’s debut album release is finally here! Co-produced by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, the album is full of treats, including seven rare and unreleased tracks, including the gorgeous title number ‘Unfold.”