Plus: Bitchin Bajas play a rare set of their Sun Ra material at a screening of Space Is the Place, and singer-songwriter Kara Jackson supports a new single (and headliner KeiyaA) at Sleeping Village.

SUMMERS: That's them on March 14 in Sao Paulo. Of course, COVID lockdowns were sweeping across the world, so Cale and the band cut the tour short and caught one of the last flights back to the States.

Charli XCX goes avant‑garde with House, her haunting new single for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights film soundtrack.

In 1960, Ray Charles released an album that, as he later said, was built around a “corny idea” — to which he added, “but then, I’m a corny guy.” It was admittedly not a very original concept: the ...

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