We love a good album, and there have been a lot of them this year, but let’s be real — whether you’re driving down the freeway with the radio on, or streaming KCRW as you pregame for a night out (remember those?), we at KCRW know better than anyone: It’s

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Shirley Collins’ new EP begins with the octogenarian folk singer reciting a short stanza of a poem, her only accompaniment a flock of birds and the gentle brush of a breeze. “One morning in the month of May, when all the birds were singing,” she says, bending the rhythm of

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The composer, pianist and conductor Nino Rota (1911-79) is best remembered for countless brilliant cinema scores, notably for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, but also for classics by his fellow Italians, the directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Franco Zeffirelli: La Strada, Amarcord, La Dolce Vita and Juliet

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The new Steam Deck could replace your Nintendo Switch — as long as you’re willing to part ways with some iconic games, that is. Although clearly more powerful than Nintendo’s handheld, Steam just doesn’t have the same kind of first-party Nintendo exclusives that make the Switch such a popular system.

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While social gatherings of all kinds are beginning to return in parts of the world, it will be a while before concerts—especially ones that require international travel—make a full comeback. For the K-pop audiences eagerly waiting their favorite idols to perform in their countries, there is, thankfully, a bountiful
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Two years after becoming the spokeswoman for a new generation of music fans, Billie Eilish faces an age-old challenge: keeping her momentum.
The pop superstar on Thursday night released her second album “Happier Than Ever,” an important test of her artistic and commercial stature in a music business where stars