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Jazz bassist and composer Ben Allison looks back on an era when sci-fi sounds began infiltrating popular music, and discusses his new album, The Stars Look Very Different Today.

The action-packed thriller starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans is clever, stylish and fun to watch. But it's still missing something essential.

Inspired by Shakespeare, Mendelssohn captures all the magic and frivolity in the music he wrote for the Bard's otherworldy play.

After nearly 30 years, 20 albums and countless concerts, the acclaimed vocal ensemble has announced the 2015-16 season will be its last. Hear a preview of the group's forthcoming album love fail.

"Good music is good music," violinist Angèle Dubeau says. The Canadian musician interprets theme music from Halo, Angry Birds and other video games on her latest album.

On Matane Malit, the singer and her group offers a transfixing balance of old and new, laying expansive instrumentation over traditional Albanian folk melodies.

The Brazilian singer's two new albums of cover songs explore her love of both jazz and bossa nova.

The concert pianist's latest album resulted from his study of what makes a piece of music uniquely French.

A young Canadian composer of Chinese parentage deftly mixes East and West in her recent creations, which include a virtuosic violin concerto called Dreamscapes. The musical salad Fung tosses up should appeal to anyone with an inquiring mind and open ears.

Musician, singer-songwriter and Internet sensation, Jonathan Coulton used to write software. Now, he's helping rewrite the lyrics to Justin Bieber songs as Ask Me Another's house musician. Listen to all of his live songs from the show's first season.