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Music journalist Ashley Kahn talks with guitarist and songwriter Al Anderson about his new album, After Hours. Anderson has been in the music business for four decades. He has written a string of country hits for Nashville's biggest stars. Despite his success as a songwriter, Anderson says the urge to perform again has proved too strong to resist.

Luisito Quintero's Afro-Latin-inflected "Love Remains the Same" captures the carefree bliss of strolling through crowds on a warm, breezy afternoon, when everyone sparkles with a sun-kissed glow and each hour unfolds with newfound wonder.

Pick a Bigger Weapon is the new CD from the San Francisco Bay Area progressive rap group The Coup. Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone magazine offers a review of the album, which mixes nostalgic beats and rhythms from the 1970s with contemporary political messages.

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has acquired a rococo portrait of Comtesse d'Egmont Pignatelli, completed in 1763 by Swedish-born painter Alexander Roslin. Curator Patrick Noon talks about the significance of the purchase.

Jhumpa Lahiri mixes detailed explorations of craft with broader reflections on her own artistic life, as well as the "essential aesthetic and political mission" of translation.

Radio station owner Ralph Epperson kept the twangy sound of live bluegrass, old-time gospel and mountain music cruising over the airwaves from his North Carolina radio station WPAQ long after other broadcasters had stopped. Epperson died Wednesday at age 85.

In a new documentary, soldiers on the front lines in Iraq capture their own footage of the experience of war. The War Tapes, directed by Deborah Scranton, opens in New York and Los Angeles this weekend.

Edward Norton is no stranger to playing characters with secrets. His latest film, Down in the Valley, has him playing a contemporary cowboy who charms a pair of teenagers from a fractured family. Don't let the white hat fool you.

Commentator Charles Monroe-Kane became attached to an MTV show featuring what he thought was a real 12-year-old crazy kid. He loved it until he found out the guy was 30 -- and the show was scripted.

Given the scale of the crisis in Darfur, it's hard to believe that one individual can make a difference -- but photographer Michal Ronnen Safdie is a believer in the power of images to spark change for the better.