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Over the past few years, incomes in Brazil rose and unemployment plunged to record lows. But now — as the country prepares to host the World Cup and the Olympics — the numbers are changing. Growth is slowing and inflation is creeping up. Tourists and Brazilians alike are feeling the pinch.

A scandal over the botched gun-trafficking operation intensified on Capitol Hill this week. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has called for an independent investigation into whether Attorney General Eric Holder misled Congress. Another Republican has called on Holder to resign.

Villagers say they're getting a raw deal as companies rush to buy up African land to form mega-farms. Farmers complain they've been ousted from the land while promises to improve water systems and schools and replant uprooted crops are not being kept.

On a razor-edged LP produced by Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, Brooklyn punks stare down the judgment of peers, the corruption of institutions and the clumsiness of gendered language.

The musician and producer has seemed to make a game of setting out challenges that can be solved, bested and subverted in surprising ways.

A lot of great music is ahead this weekend at the Newport Jazz Festival, and WBGO can help get you there. Meanwhile, here are five acts to get excited about.

#TBT to '90s L.A. indie-rock and a noisy pop band crooning about "doin' nothin' but gettin' stoned." Beaches and Canyons collects The Summer Hits' singles and compilation tracks for Record Store Day.

A debut solo record, born of both heartache and imagination, is saturated with sounds of '60s and '70s Nashville.

This record is the sound of a rock 'n' roll legend facing his place on the planet head-on, and doing his best to figure it all out as he goes along.

The Philly post-punk band's intimate story of war gets under the skin, cold and heavy.