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The posthumous album from Joe Strummer, a leader of The Clash, reflects many elements of his career, with a mix of rock and reggae influences. Strummer died last December at age 50, and members of his final band, the Mescaleros, helped to finish Streetcore. Chris Nickson has a review.

In the months leading up to his death in September, country music legend Johnny Cash recorded dozens of songs, wrote new ones and completed the liner notes for a CD box set called Unearthed. It includes the best of the singer's work from the past 10 years, plus previously unreleased material. NPR's Bob Edwards discusses the recordings with Cash's producer, Rick Rubin.

After 25 years of touring in the United States, Sting is preparing to hit the stage once again. NPR's Michele Norris talks with the British musician about his new album, Sacred Love, being middle aged and writing about love in the post-Sept. 11 world.

Singer Al Green has a new album of songs out, called I Can't Stop. The material is Green's return to his soulful sound of the 1970s, after spending more than two decades concentrating on gospel music. Critic Tom Moon has a review.

Ethel, a string quartet that plays amplified music and often collaborates with rock music composers, is making waves in the music world. The group's debut CD is called Ethel. NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Todd Reynolds and Mary Rowell, violinists for the band.

Billy Bang's story is not unusual for an urban teen of the 1960s. He was drafted after high school and sent to Vietnam. But the jazz violinist has turned his war experience into one of the most remarkable albums of 2003, says Howard Mandel in a report for Weekend Edition Saturday.

Two years before his death from cancer in 1991, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz entered the studio with producer Herb Alpert. The tapes were shelved at the time in favor of a more ambitious project; they were only recently found. Alpert speaks to NPR's Liane Hansen about his friendship with Getz and the '89 session, now on the CD Bossas and Ballads.

Like Whoa, Nelly!, her 2002 debut hit album, Nelly Furtado's new CD features diverse influences that reflect the young Canadian-born singer-songwriter's Portuguese heritage. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Furtado about Folklore, which dives deeper into the texture and stories of her parents' homeland, the Azore Islands. Hear songs from the new CD.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with violinist Jennifer Koh about her new CD Violin Fantasies, a concept album on which she plays four fantasies by Schubert, Schumann, Schoenberg, and Ornette Coleman.

Detroit rhythm-and-blues singer Bettye LaVette had a few hit records in the 1960s and then disappeared — sort of. For the past 40 years, she's been making records and appearing on Broadway. On her new CD I've Got My Own Hell to Raise, LaVette covers 10 songs, all written by women.