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The band Modest Mouse has released their first album in four years. The group often referred to as the perfect indie-rock band suddenly finds itself enjoying pop success that had eluded it for 10 years. Mikel Jollett has a review of their new CD, Good News for People who Love Bad News.

Britain's Guillemots are a young band that fuses unique sonic textures with catchy, uplifting music. The end result is completely modern-sounding pop: The band challenges the listener while also paying homage to a rich songwriting history.

25 years ago, the heavy metal band Anvil was red hot. Decades later and with no record contracts or platinum albums, the band still dreams of hitting it big. Anvil's short rise and long fall is the subject of a documentary, Anvil! The Story of Anvil.

This week's program features two works with music by Sir Arthur Sullivan. We'll begin with "The Pirates of Penzance" which he wrote with W.S. Gilbert and then turn to "The Rose of Persia" which he wrote with Basil Hood. "The Pirates of Penzance" is the 1981 Broadway revival featuring Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstadt, and Rex Smith.

Dorothy Fields came from a fantastic showbusiness family, and her career as a musical lyricist and book-writer lasted nearly five decades. We're going to celebrate her talents on this program with songs from fourteen of her shows, many of which feature standards from the over 400 songs she co-wrote,.

A Tempo this Saturday (1/11 at 7 pm) goes inside the VR performance by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra being presented this weekend by Princeton University Concerts. It also includes an excerpt of host Rachel Katz's conversation with a Mason Gross School of the Arts graduate who wrote the funeral hymn performed at Former President Jimmy Carter's funeral.

In the late 1930s, big bands frequently vied for the greatest applause in "ballroom competitions." According to commentator A.B. Spellman, "the Basie band was never beaten" in these competitions." This two-volume set showcases Basie at the height of his ballroom success, and features his renowned rhythm section, "the Kansas City Walk."

When trumpeter Dominick Farinacci pitched a Lee Morgan tribute to the programmers of the 29th Detroit Jazz Festival, they loved the idea. Outdoors in the sun, three top young horn men nail Morgan's going-too-fast-and-making-the-corners style, sometimes in harmony.

Our regular Day to Day music critic reviews the self-titled debut album from the British blues band 22-20s. The band plays straight-ahead, upbeat, blues-based rock 'n' roll that hearkens back to early Rolling Stones -- and Bordal says the band doesn't need to apologize for being derivative, because it works.

The wide-ranging keyboardist, composer and bandleader died Feb. 9 of cancer. He was one of the fathers of jazz fusion, with his work spanning from acoustic jazz to his own interpretations of Mozart.