Heems, the Queens-raised rapper and co-founder of Das Racist and Swet Shop Boys, raps all the words with enthusiasm and sings them with all the feelings. He plays in-studio.

NYC's Latin X-Perimental band Zemog El Gallo Bueno sings in Spanish, English, and Spanglish, and veers between so many kinds of music that it's hard to keep up. They play in-studio.

Hannah Jadagu was just out of high school when she released her first EP, full of songs recorded on her iPhone. in 2023, while studying at NYU, she released her debut LP, Aperture, a ...

Arturo O’Farrill may be best known as the longtime leader of the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, but he’s done so much else, as a pianist, bandleader, and educator. He’s the son of the Lat...

Iraqi-born, American-based composer and NEA Heritage Fellow Rahim AlHaj plays the oud, the Arab lute. Derek Gripper is a classical guitarist from South Africa who has somehow found a ...

Derek Gripper is a classical guitarist from South Africa who has somehow found a way to play West African music for the 21-string harp, or kora, on the six strings of his instrument. ...

American experimental guitarist Steve Gunn might draw from blues, folk, ecstatic free jazz, and psych in his music. He performs songs from his latest, 'Daylight Daylight' in-studio.

Klezmer music may have its roots in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, but it found a home here in NY in the 1920s and 30s, and the klezmer revival that began almost a half cen...

The British band Public Service Broadcasting describes their work as "Teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future", (Bandcamp). Their songs are often built on sam...