Today's Top Tune

Today's Top Tune

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Today's Top Tune episodes

  • Faithless: 'Synthesizer' feat. Nathan Ball
    Legendary UK dance pioneers Faithless, have been out of the limelight for a while. After a 10 year hiatus, they’re thankfully back with a hypnotic banger called “Synthesizer” featuring the talented Nathan Ball. Stay tuned for a full length out...
    5 min
  • Adia Victoria: “South Gotta Change”
    Adia Victoria says her new song “South Gotta Change” is “a prayer, an affirmation, and a battle cry all at once. It is a promise to engage in the kind of ‘good trouble’ John Lewis understood necessary to form a more perfect union.”
    4 min
  • Jamila Woods: "SULA (Paperback)”
    Jamila Woods draws inspiration from art. For instance, every song on Woods’ last album related to an iconic artist of color. “SULA (Paperback)” is no different. A poignant song, it is inspired by the first novel she ever read by the late great...
    5 min
  • Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles: “Rise”
    Master of the Hammond B-3 organ, Cory Henry gathers The Funk Apostles to sing “…We all need to look at history / What we’ll find is, that it’s repeating uh huh / It won’t change ‘til, we all come together….” That’s the call on...
    5 min
  • Anjimile: “Baby No More”
    Much of Anjimile’s debut album was written while in treatment for drug and alcohol abuse. During that time, he was also in the process of developing a more fully nonbinary trans identity. Each song on the album takes its own journey like “Baby...
    3 min
  • Bahamas: ‘Own Alone’
    Bahamas — the project led by Afie Jurvanen — has kept it fairly quiet since his 2018 Grammy-nominated album “Earthtones.” But now he’s kicking it into gear with an uptempo track “Own Alone,” as we preview a new album on the horizon.
    4 min
  • Speelburg: ‘When You Want Me’
    Noah Sacré aka Speelburg is a rising alt-pop star in the making, and he’s caught our attention with his fun and dynamic sound. He likes to listen to a playlist of songs that run 150-160 BPMs, so he challenged himself to write his own fast-paced...
    4 min
  • Nubya Garcia: ‘Stand With Each Other’
    Nubya Garcia is a powerful London-based, multi award-winning saxophonist and composer with her debut freshly released. You can hear her love of jazz in every note, as she brings the rhythms of her life into focus on “Stand With Each Other.”
    5 min
  • Gabriels: ‘In Loving Memory’
    Gabriels is an emerging Los Angeles group that create a brooding soulful reflection of life today. They don’t have much out there yet, but “In Loving Memory” is a striking doo-wop ballad. Don’t miss out on this one!
    3 min

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