WAMU's Bluegrass Country is on the chopping block and up for sale. Help save it, and by doing so, save a little bit of us all.

Bon Iver returns after a five year hiatus, and the results are polarizing. We're choosing sides in the war of 22, A Million.

Ever wonder how to make great, kinda weird, super-intellectual pop music that actually works? Louis Weeks has the answers that you seek. All of them.

Aaron "Ab" Abernathy has built his career on helping artists like Black Milk and Slum Village elevate their art, but now he's breaking out on his own with his new album, Monologue.

A potent combination of autobiography and R&B retrospect, Monologue is a capital "S" SOUL record, that recounts Abernathy's formative years growing up outside Cleveland, Ohio. We sit down with Aaron to discuss the origins of the album, why his high school experience had such an important impact on his life even today, and the power of art and truth in times when we need help the most.

PLUS! Hailing from the Bay Area, R&B outfit The Seshen's second LP Flames and Figures is out on 10/14 and we've got a taste of the first single for you to get on down to. 

The protest song is nothing new, but now in 2016 it may be the best defense we have against, well, 2016.

And speaking of protest songs...

Drive-By Truckers have always infused their songs with politics, but the scorching truths of their latest album, American Band, may be their strongest, most important statement yet. We're going in on the band's history, why this album is essential listening in 2016, and figuring out where we go from here. 

The next great battle in the streaming wars may have just been started by Pandora with the announcement of their "half-price" streaming service. Is $4.99 a month the future of the music industry, or the beginning the end of it as we know it?

After a career conquering the indie airwaves as one half of Wye Oak, Jenn Wasner is breaking out on her own under the name Flock Of Dimes. 

Washington, DC's Aaron "Ab" Abernathy has spent the past few years acting as music director for hip-hop artist Black Milk and perfecting his performing chops with his band Nat Turner. Now Ab is about to break out on his own with a new LP,  Monologue, and we've got a taste of what's in store with his latest, Prince-tastic single, "I See You".

Nelly is in trouble with the tax man, and it's teh INTERNET to the rescue! Wait...really?

We're reviewing Florida Georgia Line's latest, guys. This is happening. Strap in for a wild ride with Eduardo and Marcus Dowling as we dig into one of this years biggest releases that everyone loves to hate. Or DO they?

LVL UP's third album Return To Love is out 9/23, and on Sub Pop no less! We're taking their single "Pain" out for a spin to see how this New York quartet is doing. 

What's in a name? Turns out a whole lot if you're in a band. Some guy named Eric has offered up a whole mess of suggestions, some good, some...not so much. 

Since roundabout 2004, jazz pianist Robert Glasper has played on all your favorite records, won all the Grammy's, and blown all of the minds in the process. Marcus Dowling (Pitchfork, Bandcamp) and Marcus J. Moore (Sr. Editor, Bandcamp) join us to work through this musical giant's latest "experiment", ArtScience.

Mndsgn's latest LP Body Wash is a cosmic mashup of chill, funk, and hip-hop. Marcus Dowling gives us the lowdown on the new album and spins a track to get you all the way onboard.

As the idiocracy draws ever closer, we take a look a new spin on the reality show where nine strangers are picked to makes some tunes and get judged by...Spotify.

After fifteen years, Australian sample kings The Avalanches return with their new album, Wildflower. Carrie's spawn joins us to discuss this comeback and drop some serious knowledge on our ass.

To celebrate ten years of being awesome, Portland Cello Project have released their version of the Prince classic (because every Prince song is a classic) "How Come U Never Call Me Anymore". We've got a listen and a look for you to dig into before the group plays here in DC on 9/21.

It's official, the headphone jack is no more...at least according to Apple. We're parsing the pro's and con's and abusing the word "dongle" excessively in the process.

WILCO'S BACK MOTHER F@#@ERS! But you knew that. 3 lifelong fans of the band weigh in on the alt-country fixture's latest, Schmilco.

The Flat Five (feat. Kelly Hogan) are from Chicago. The Flat Five are groovier than you, or anyone you know. We have proof. Put it in your ears.

As of late, the music industry has seen a rise in talented African-American musicians who paint outside of expected mainstream lines for pop artists. In eschewing easy-to-consume tropes for left-of-center jazz, soul, and techno-influenced sounds, performers like Kendrick Lamar, Robert Glasper, Chance the Rapper, Frank Ocean and so many more have created a sustainable and alternative-inspired vibe. However exciting this class of stars may be, it's important to remember that this is a movement that has an impressive historical context as well.

Spotify may be winning the streaming wars, but with a new round of rights negotiations ahead, will they be stopped in their tracks by the labels.

Chicago's Ryley Walker makes guitar music. Heady guitar music. On his latest album, Golden Sings That Have Been Song, we take yet another trip into the cosmos searching for answers that we may never find.

Sylvan Esso is back AF. Witness their new single "Radio". Rejoice.

The internet has given us a lot of things, but probably its most valuable contribution to society (besides cat videos) has been access to loads and loads of stats. A recent study by Value Penguin (internet stat provider!) went ahead and ranked the quality of music cities around America. Noble goal. Dubious results. Because internet.

On Lydia Loveless's fourth album, Real, the Ohio-based singer/songwriter is growing in all kinds of new directions. Kevin and Paul get real about the songs, the critical acclaim for Loveless's work after Indestructible Machine, and the (possible) wrongheadedness of their own expectations. 

Baltimore is kinda killing it this year...again. And Wing Dam is gonna kick you around the sun straight back to the fuzzed out heyday of Smashing Pumpkins, and...well...Smashing Pumpkins. The Corgainasance is real folks. Really real. 

Leaks are de rigueur in this digital age, and recently the band Twenty One Pilots had a new track freed from its capitalist coil and spread forth across the digital oceans for the masses to "enjoy." This didn't sit well with the  powers-that-be, and so it was that Reddit deliver unto them the head (name) of the vile curr who would commit such a crime. Reddit said no. What now doods?

At this point it's generally understood that singer/songwriter Cass McCombs is a de facto national treasure. He made a new album, so just like all his other albums, we're obliged to talk about it. 

Snail Mail is from Baltimore. Snail Mail makes rock. We'd tell you more, but it's better you just turn it up and find out for yourself. 

FOUR long years we waited.

FOUR long years we wondered.

FOUR long years some of us even tweeted our frustration about it.

Now that Frank Ocean's Blonde is here, what the f%$% are we gonna do with ourselves?

Sooooooo..Apple Music just bought Cash Money Records, guys. Hashtag "It's on!"

Lori McKenna is one of the most respected songwriters working "in" Nashville today. On her tenth album , The Bird & The Rifle she's stepping out once again and proving that whether it's behind the scenes or on the big stage, she's one of the best around.

On their latest album, Ambulance, Sweden's The Amazing have embarked on yet another sonic sojourn through the cosmos, and we've got a taste of the title track for you to hitch a ride on.

One of the greatest potential  casualties of our fundamentally damaged copyright laws may be the erasure of not just black cultural history, but the unwinding of the artistic fabric that makes up America. De La Soul knows this first hand. 

On his sophomore album, soul/folk powerhouse Michael Kiwanuka aims for the stratosphere...and gets there. #spoilers

Dance punk isn't dead, but it isn't alive either. Zula is something...more.

Warner Music exec Mike Jbara is leaving the entertainment monolith to join "HD music" firm MQA. Is there new music format the future of music, or just another Ogg-Vorbis in the also-ran annals of history.

Richmond, Virginia's Avers is back Omega/Whatever, the follow up to 2014's head trip of a debut, Empty Light. Did they survive the sophomore slump? All signs point to HELL YES!

Mild High Club. Great band. Questionably great pun. We've got a the heady title track off of their upcoming album Skiptracing (out 8/26 on Stones Throw Records) for you to toke on.  

Anticipation. Excitement. Elation. Confusion. Disappointment. This week, Frank Ocean is all of these things and more.

Supremely talented Chicago MC Noname first announced herself to the world two years ago on Chance The Rapper's Acid Rap. On Telefone, she's finally stepping out on her own with one of the strongest statements on womanhood, life in the hood, and life in general that we've heard in recent memory. Marcus K, Dowling and Briana Younger join us to discuss this monumental mix-tape that was well worth the wait.

PLUS! Singer/songwriter Esmé Patterson's critically acclaimed LP We Were Wild, is as perfect a slice of pop-rock that you're going to find in 2016. We've got a new track to help get you acquainted.

Rumor has it that despite the constant cries of “foul”, 98% of all videos (over ONE BILLION) on YouTube are 100% kosher from a licensing perspective. Say what?

Twenty-five years in the making, Nels Cline’s Lovers captures the passion and history of an artist who has spent a lifetime pursuing his musical truth. On his Blue Note debut, Cline mashes together original compositions with interpretations of the music that has informed his career to craft a delicate statement about relationships, the worth of self-indulgence and jazz’s place in the modern music space.

And speaking of modern jazz….

Guitarist Julian Lage - a frequent collaborator of Cline’s - put out a slightly phenomenal album in 2015. We’ve got a taste aof World’s Fair to jog your memory

Soundcloud may be up for sale, and Deezer, yet another streaming music service launches in the US. Just another day in the #streamingwars.

Fronted by punk legend Kathleen Hannah, The Julie Ruin is back with Hit Reset, a savage record that's all killer and no filler. Like you expected anything less.

And speaking of savage...Washington DC jazz-emo-thrash duo Dove Lady may be lacking in members but they make up for it with a righteous, and righteously sophisticated, noise. We've got a track for you to feed your head with. 

Franz Nicolay is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, true punk philosopher, and now…an author.

The Humorless  Ladies of Border Patrol chronicles Nicolay and his wife Maria’s tour through the underground punk/DIY scene of Russia and the Ukraine and is unlike any travelogue that has come before it. Immersive, poignant, and a treat for the senses , Ladies is the next step in an already vital career for Nicolay that is required reading for fans of music, punk, or just gaining a new perspective on the world we all share.

But enough of us gabbing. How about we let Franz tell you all about it…