AlbumA la Sala, KhruangbinDead Oceans and Night Time Stories, April 5 It may sound like trite exaggeration to say Khruangbin’s fourth studio album blows the doors off the barn—except the trio records its music in one, located on the family property of guitarist Mark “Marko” Speer, in tiny Burton (population three hundred), about 85 miles west of Houston. Speer, Laura Lee Ochoa on bass and vocals, and Donald “DJ” Johnson on drums create a globe-trotting surf-rock sound, though, that is about as far as you can get from stables and haystacks.ALBUmAct II, BeyoncéParkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records, March 29 Queen Bey is, at last, entering her country era, in the second installment of her three-act project, a genre-spanning exploration of American music’s Black roots. The first, 2022’s…
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