By: Daniel Ucko

Virtual band Gorillaz releases its first album in five years Tuesday, just in time to transfix listeners before a headlining gig on the third day of Coachella in April. “Plastic Beach“, the third studio album from co-creators Daman Albarn and Jamie Hewlett is equally exotic, interesting, refreshing and weird. And you can stream the whole thing right now on NPR by clicking here.  Read more...

By: Myles Crawley (with excerpts from The Voice Project‘s website)

For over two decades war has ravaged Northern Uganda, Southern Sudan and Eastern Congo. Joseph Kony’s LRA has made abducting children and forcing them to fight his chief weapon of war, even making them kill their friends and even their own families. As Kony’s power is starting to ebb, many former soldiers are escaping but hide in the bush, afraid to return home because of reprisals for the atrocities they were forced to commit.  Read more...