Today's Top Tune

Get funked up with The Bamboos! Written before COVID-19 hit, “Hard Up” taps into our universal sense of unease. Founder Lance Ferguson captures the struggle to hang onto our lives with insistence and a steady beat.

After nearly a decade, Menahan Street Band is back! The funk icons behind Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley share “The Duke,” filled with creamy horns, melodious organ, and a peppery rhythm section.

When Rhiannon Giddens first heard folk/bluegrass music pioneer Alice Gerrard’s song “Calling Me Home,” she felt it deeply. Inspired by the music of the South and drawn to the sound of Giddens’ adoptive country Ireland, we’ll honor St....

Jose Gonzalez’s first song in Spanish was written in response to the many questions his young daughter posed, such as: “Who are we?” Or. “Why are we here?” Her queries have been so mind-bending for him as a parent to answer that Gonzalez...

What do you do when you find yourself a little cautious around others? That’s the question singer/songwriter Claud was thinking about when writing “Guard Down.” Claud says: “I had just found out somebody I had feelings for started seeing...

Guitar virtuosos Rodrigo y Gabriela have deemed Kamasi Washington “one of the most exciting jazz musicians out there,” so they’ve recreated the LA jazz maestro’s “Street Fighter Mas” with just two guitars. It may sound stripped down, but...

Cimafunk made a big splash as a breakout artist during SXSW a couple years back, and would have been on tour last year if not for COVID. Alas, there is a silver lining. “Cun Cun Pra” is a song composed during confinement and, in typical Cuban...

Electro duo O Future create sublime pastoral pieces, which is likely why they were enlisted to score Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia,” and have collaborated with Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei. Their most recent work hits closer to home,...

We love Tommy Guerrero for helping define street skating in the 1980s. These days, he spends lots more time on his Latin-infused instrumental sound, including the wavy groove “By the Sea at the End of the World.”

Welcome to International Women’s Day. Let’s drop the needle on a track from Lake Street Dive’s latest album, “Obviously.” The song is “Being A Woman,” which packs plenty in less than three minutes!