Today's Top Tune

Longtime KCRW favorite Bonobo, aka Simon Green, marks his 25th year in music with the new album, Distance in Static. Weaving Urdu and Japanese vocals, Iranian samples, and his always cool electronics, the album features cameos from Arooj Aftab, Joy Crookes and Nilüfer Yanya. His worldwide tour stops include shows at the Wiltern this Wednesday and Thursday. 

From Seoul, South Korea, the band Leenalchi breathes new life into pansori, Korea's centuries-old storytelling tradition rooted in shamanism and the Joseon Dynasty. Reimagining epic vocal narratives through a collision of traditional Korean music, psychedelic pop, funk and new wave, the band creates a sound that's both ancient and contemporary. 

Guitarricadelafuente is the artistic moniker of Spanish actor and singer Álvaro Lafuente Calvo, who sings and stars in the critically acclaimed film La Bola Negra, which is now in theaters and streams on Netflix starting December 2nd. The film's central song "La Nieve" is a hotly tipped contender for Best Original Song and it's Today's Top Tune.

Norwegian singer-songwriter Thomas Dybdahl is a longtime KCRW favorite, and his latest album includes “My Soul Is On Fire,” a song that began life as a score piece for a film project. Inspired by a springtime road trip through Norway’s lush highlands, Today's Top Tune finds beauty in nature, as if it were a glimpse of the divine in the world around us. 

Raised on the edge of the Everglades, in a Jamaican household in South Florida, a young Alyssa McDoom adopted the stage name June as a way to honor her grandmother. Her father was a soundman and carpenter who built custom sound systems, filling their home with reggae and bass, and her grandfather was a Jamaican folk musician who gave her her first guitar.