Today's Top Tune

Today's Top Tune

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Today's Top Tune episodes

  • Marty Stuart: ‘Sitting Alone’
    Five-time Grammy Award winner, Country Music Hall of Famer, and all around good guy Marty Stuart is back with his first album in six years, Altitude. Stuart may be “Sitting Alone” on this track, but he’ll be busy this summer hitting the road with Chris Stapleton and making a pit stop at Stagecoach this coming weekend.
    3 min
  • 79.5 : "Our Hearts Didn’t Go That Way” (Feat. Durand Jones)
    79.5 is so dedicated to their sound that they named their band after an imaginary eclectic radio station that you might have heard growing up in NYC, blending everything from 70’s underground disco to acid jazz. If you’re looking for something sweet with a beat, turn to “Our Hearts Didn’t Go That Way” (Feat. Durand Jones ).
    3 min
  • June McDoom: ‘On My Way’
    June McDoom takes a unique approach to her style of dreamy folk music. Featuring vintage analog experimentation, “On My Way” has an overall tender yet supernatural, cinematic quality from an emerging singer-songwriter.
    4 min
  • Baaba Maal: ‘Freak Out’ (feat. The Very Best)
    An icon of the ‘80s world music boom, Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal plunges into stiff electronic production combined with a modern African sound on “Freak Out,” featuring The Very Best.
    “It became a song about being careful what you put on the internet,” Baaba Maal tells us. “It might seem funny or popular when you do it, but it might have consequences, and you will have to live with those all your life.”
    5 min
  • Jackie Mendoza: ‘Pedacitos’
    Mesmerizing and hypnotic, Chula Vista/Tijuana queer artist Jackie Mendoza found her voice when she began playing the ukulele and singing in school musicals. “Pedacitos,” or “little pieces/bits” in Spanish, pays tribute to loss.
    3 min
  • Oracle Sisters: ‘RBH’
    Written and recorded in Greece during the pandemic, Hydranism is the title of the debut album by Paris-based trio Oracle Sisters . Tapping into the timeless space we were once suspended in, “RBH” or "Right Beside Her" came together quickly while the group was jamming and borrows a verse from James Joyce’s “Ulysses.”
    5 min
  • Lonnie Holley: ‘Kindness Will Follow Your Tears’ Feat. Bon Iver
    A godfather of improvisational creativity, Lonnie Holley transcends struggle and hardship by making art and music. Holley takes a thoughtful approach to music making, building his songs like sculptures. He flows through stream-of-consciousness lyrics on “Kindness Will Follow Your Tears,” featuring none other than Justin Vernon’s Bon Iver.
    5 min
  • Ruen Brothers: ‘Slow Draw’
    Influenced by Western Noir, the sibling duo Ruen Brothers create a brooding cinematic vibe replete with ricochet effect on “Slow Draw,” a sonic reference to the triggers at the brink of a relationship’s end.
    3 min
  • Adi Oasis: ‘Adonis’ (Feat. KIRBY) (Clean)
    Brooklyn-based soul funkstress and bassist Adi Oasis slips in a little French at the top of “Adonis,” from her debut album Lotus Glow, which pays homage to her French grandmother and her father’s native island of Martinique. The album is buoyed by collaborations with Jamila Wood, Aaron Taylor, and, on “Adonis,” Rihanna and Ariana Grande songwriter KIRBY.
    4 min

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