Sponsored message
Audience-funded nonprofit news
radio tower icon laist logo
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
Subscribe
  • Listen Now Playing Listen

New Music Tuesday: K'Naan, Alex McMurray and Godspeed You! Black Emperor

K'Naan performs on stage during the Global Citizen Festival, a mass music concert and event to urge world leaders to act towards ending extreme poverty, in Central Park in New York on September 29, 2012. Some 60,000 people attended the free festival, part of the Global Citizen Campaign.
K'Naan performs on stage during the Global Citizen Festival, a mass music concert and event to urge world leaders to act towards ending extreme poverty, in Central Park in New York on September 29, 2012. Some 60,000 people attended the free festival, part of the Global Citizen Campaign.
(
EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images
)

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

Get LA News Updates Daily

We brief you on what you need to know about L.A. today.
A row of graphics payment types: Visa, MasterCard, Apple Pay and PayPal, and  below a lock with Secure Payment text to the right

It's New Music Tuesday, the day our steady stable of music journalists and critics introduce you to what's new this week in music. 

Today, we talk to freelance music writer Steve Hochman talks with us about new music from K'Naan, Alex McMurray and Godspeed You! Black Emporer.

 Tracks from K'Naan's new album "Country, God or the Girl:"

Alex McMurray performing a track off new album " I Will Never Be Alone In This Land:"

Track from Godspeed You! Black Emporer's new album "Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!:"