Today's Top Tune

Mexico City’s ambassador of electronic Cumbia Camilo Lara—a.k.a. Mexican Institute of Sound—writes an album in the form of a love letter to his beloved city. Let yourself go with the healing, seductive sound of “La Balada de la Aspirina.”

The LA producer known as Elusive continues his foray into free jazz with his seventeenth album. “All The Feels” features brother Josh Koslow on trumpet.

If you have a hankering for straight-ahead California country rock, turn your ears to the twentieth anniversary deluxe edition of Beachwood Sparks’ self-titled debut album. You’ll be treated to rare and unreleased tracks including the undulating...

“Tempo” is a new album by Dom La Nena dedicated to time. Creating relatively short and poignant dreamy tracks, La Nena plays all of the sounds on the album herself, layering her voice, piano, and her primary instrument, the cello. “Quien...

Puma Blue has been on a meteoric rise as “the don of London’s hottest underground scene,” yet his music knew no boundary when it crossed the Atlantic and became revered on KCRW’s airwaves. A song we love from his stellar debut album is...

Amythyst Kiah is tapped as an up-and-coming secret that we need to get to know better with a new version of Kiah’s radically reimagined song “Black Myself” a powerful track originally recorded for the band she was in, Our Native Daughters,...

This pandemic has intensified the work of prolific artist Sunny War, known for her inventive guitar style and as half of the LA-based duo War & Pierce. In fact, it’s given her incentive to give more to the community outside of music by founding an...

Natalie Bergman, the sisterly half of Wild Belle, turns personal tragedy into comfort by creating hopeful spiritual music on her approaching debut solo album. We turn our ears to “Shine Your Light On Me,” a song that will lift you up.

Last year, Bartees Strange extolled his favorite band The National via an EP of covers. Strange’s debut album is a startling contrast to that work with “Mustang” at its epicenter.

For the first minute of “Lost In Translation” all you hear is Emma Negrete strumming her guitar as she gently draws you in and then her band kicks in and the speakers explode with joy. Go on, check it out!