"This sounds exactly like what you'd hear in some Eurotrash D.C. bar," says Collin Klamper of Velella Velella's album Bay of Biscay. Klamper is The Inlander's art director and recent emigre; from the ...

Andre 3000 released new music for the first time in 17 years this week. But "New Blue Sun" is not what most fans may have expected. The record has no rap music. What it does have is the flute.

It's the flute's time to shine. Thanks to Lizzo, 2019's twerking, flute playing R&B/pop machine queen, we're seeing a renaissance of the woodwind instrument - a fabulous one, at that. Of course, there ...

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This week, Andre 3000 released an instrumental album featuring the flute instead of an expected rap album. Scott Simon asks LA Times' August Brown about the flute's decades-long role in pop music.