Could your weekend playlist use a little more seasoning? Rolling StoneLatinselects some of the best new music releases from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.Keep track of the latest in Latin via our playlist on Spotify. Ozuna, Wisin, Myke Towers, Arcangel, Cosculluela and Juanka, “Enemigos Ocultos” Puerto Rican superstar Ozuna dazzles …

Livestreaming platforms are a dime a dozen these days, with many of them offering fans glittery features like virtual-reality visuals, gamified interfaces, and geofenced “local” shows. But Tim Westergren thinks of all that as only half the puzzle. “Livestreaming doesn’t really matter if you can’t get people to see it,” …

Back in 2018, it was possible to break a single via an Instagram meme. It happened with Rich the Kid’s “New Freezer:” Omid Noori, co-founder of the digital marketing and management company ATG, stumbled on a meme featuring several kids whipsawing their heads to the track; he then paid a …

Ben Harper has announced his new albumWinter Is for Lovers, a solo effort that features Harper and his Monteleone lap steel guitar across 15 original instrumental compositions. As a preview for the album, Harper released a performance of the song “Inland Empire” in his home studio, surrounded by his collection …

Mike Doughty, of the alt-rock outfit Soul Coughing, and longtime collaborator Andrew “Scrap” Livingston, have launched their new project, Ghost of Vroom, with a sardonic ode to the Covid-19 era, “Rona Pollona.” The track will appear on Ghost of Vroom’s debut EP, Ghost of Vroom 2, out September 25th via …

Fresh off the release of his new single “Over Now” with Calvin Harris, the Weeknd performed his massive After Hours hit “Blinding Lights” during the virtual 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. From Hudson Yards’ gravity-defying sky deck the Edge, a battered and bruised Weeknd embodied his cinematic, red-suit sporting After …

On Disclosure’s breakthrough 2013 debut Settle, the U.K. duo of Howard and Guy Lawrence employed a sample of motivational speaker Eric Thomas, flipping his rhythmic speech into irresistible dance music on “When a Fire Starts to Burn.” Thomas makes a welcome return on Disclosure’s third album Energy, his words used …

On his 1994 coming-of-age masterpiece Illmatic, Nas rendered the sprawling Queensbridge Houses, and the thrills and despair of young Black life in Dinkins-era New York City, with the detail and scale of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. He’s never come close to making another Illmatic, but he’s still mining the …

Elizabeth Neumann voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and she recently served as Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention and Security Policy at the Department of Homeland Security. Neumann is now speaking out against Trump as a “racist” and a danger to America. In a new video, she implicates Trump’s rhetoric …

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