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Staff Pick

  • Chuwi is a collection of family and friends from Isabela, Puerto Rico. (If you caught any of Bad Bunny’s historic residency, Chuwi was the backing band every night for “WELTiTA.”) They come from the western side of the island where bomba, plena and salsa are injected into people’s veins. The band harmoniously incorporates all of these influences into its sound, trading ocean blues and sunset pinks for playful jazz breaks and tasteful synthesizer effects. Chuwi’s members build a landscape of their home wherever they go, making it feel as though the something missing is and always will be irrefutably theirs.
A deep dive into a relatively frivolous facet of The Great American Songbook.
  • Browse the playlist from this week's game
  • Royal Conservatoire of Brussels
    Convents, were among Early Modern Europe’s most musical spaces, and one of the few in which women could pursue higher education in a variety of fields. This week on Harmonia, we’re celebrating these under-sung cultural powerhouses with music written by and for nuns and other religious repertory performed by women over the centuries, featuring the latest by Musica Secreta.
  • In 1957 tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was at the peak of his first great period, playing with a confident, swinging, and radical abandon both as a leader and with Max Roach and Miles Davis.
A look at the things that over time have come to be seen as disposable, and the things that have proven durable.
  • Poet Raisa Tolchinsky reads from her book Glass Jaw: "Purgatory," "From July until September," and "Within those fires there are souls."
  • Danny William
    We’re saying goodbye to Nice Work this week. For our last show, hosts Tyler Lake and Alex Chambers talk about some of their favorite moments, look back at stories and interviews and reflect on what they hoped the show would accomplish.

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