Rodrigo Amarante didn’t want anything modular. Deserting the lusher Brazilian chord progressions and layered sounds of 2014 debut Cavalo, the direction of his second album, Drama was stripped back, ...

The Skirball Cultural Center, an institution dedicated to exploring the shared ideals of American democracy and Jewish heritage, will kick off its 28th annual free Sunset Concerts series on July 17 ...

There are a lot of reasons why we’re obsessed with Netflix’s addicting dramatization of the ‘80s cocaine trade. However, there’s one aspect of Narcos that has us obsessively clicking on the next ...

December 1, 2021 • NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something new into reality. August 31, 2021 • ...

On his Summerstage debut, Brazilian singer-songwriter Rodrigo Amarante, backed by his own acoustic guitar and a band, kicked off his performance with an original low-tempo ballad sung in his native ...

Brazilian singer/songwriter Rodrigo Amarante imagines more than one world on his recent “Cavalo” (Easy Sound). He uses various musical and spoken languages to shape songs that anticipate movies he may ...