Check out some great tunes that are currently the top tracks played on NPR:

YMA SUMAC: Exotica Queen

This would be Yma Sumac's 94th birthday.  The Peruvian singer is known as the queen of "exotica" and she had a vocal range of five octaves. She sang in deep growls to high pitched notes even whistled like birds.  Enjoy 2 of her tunes below by clicking the name of each song:

Chuncho
Tumpa

The Strokes...what a Drag (Queen)

New music from The Strokes, check out Drag Queen...

New music from Gary Numan off Jean-Michel Jarre's CD Electronica 2: The Art of Noise

Funky French Jazzy Retro...

Oui...a retro French jazzy tune by Vincent Raphael: Seul Depuis Mille Ans from 1974:

Click HERE to check it out...

Magnetised Music

Here's a new track from English singer/songwriter Tom Odell, Magnetised (secondcity remix) from his new album Wrong Crowd.  Find out more about him on his website: www.tomodell.com.

Here's a cool version of Panda Bear's Boys Latin (Rosegold Remix)