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Roots music has always had rule-breakers, but its shift this century toward genre-twisting innovation owes a lot to a 2000 album by three kids barely old enough to vote. -
San Diego event cancellations, confined spaces and the ripple effect of lost work and income on artists and nonprofits during the global coronavirus pandemic -
KPBS Midday EditionNPR Music's Tiny Desk contest is looking for the next great undiscovered musician. The contest submission period ends March 30. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe City Ballet presents Balanchine, the Salk Institute pairs science with music, and Los Shadows plays at Soda Bar -
Hanif Abdurraqib reflects on the band's 2000 debut, The Swiss Army Romance, as a gateway to one's younger self: raw, foolish, endlessly seeking to feel things out loud. -
Within the first moments of Taimane's magical set, we hear her play fiery flamenco, a famous phrase from the opera Carmen, a touch of Bach and more than a nod to her Hawaiian homeland. -
On her second EP, The Beautiful Struggle, the 21-year-old singer-songwriter, whose Kurdish Muslim parents fled their home during the Gulf War, bridges her Kurdish and Dutch identities. -
For "One-Hit Wonders/Second-Best Songs," Jayna Brown, Black culture researcher at the Pratt Institute, recommends "Kong" by Neneh Cherry. Cherry is best known for her 1989 hit "Buffalo Stance." -
KPBS Midday EditionA new album from Høurs, The Symphony performs Sibelius, Rachmaninoff and Texu Kim, and Nick Roth's installation, closes at SDMA. -
Dancing to the mariachi horns of "Ciega, Sordomuda," one young Latina found a deep, unwavering love staring her in the face. It just took a song about being blinded by emotion to see it clearly.
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