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French singer Camille Dalmais has been compared to Bjork, Fiona Apple and Bobby McFerrin. The 27-year-old Parisian talks about her new album, Le Fil.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are marking their 30th year in the business with a U.S. tour, and Petty has a new solo album, Highway Companion.

Ever since Chuck Berry, St. Louis has been producing rock music that defies the prevailing norm. But is it possible that in 1969 it also produced America's Beatles, a band no one ever heard? Rock historian Ed Ward investigates the curious case of the Aerovons.

Funny how travel abroad can affect your outlook. Guitarist Lee Ritenour says recent trips to South Africa and Brazil have given him new legs, musically speaking. The result is his latest CD, Smoke 'N' Mirrors.

During a hiatus from The Frames, Glen Hansard recorded The Swell Season with Czech singer Marketa Irglova, and the result aches and swoons behind lovely arrangements. A longtime master of sublimely melodramatic sad-bastard music, Hansard finds words of hard-won hope and comfort on "Falling Slowly."

Members of the British pop band Gomez pride themselves on the collaborative way they create songs. Music critic Christian Bordal of member station KCRW has a review of the band's new album, How We Operate.

Veteran artist Mr. Lif has thrived in the independent rap scene, where he has found fertile ground for his aggressively political themes and raw production style. His new solo CD highlights Mr. Lif's signature sound: naturally flowing, mind-engaging and just a little dangerous.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Living with War, a new CD by Neil Young that includes the song "Let's Impeach the President." He posted the entire album on his website last week for free. It's now on sale as a CD.

The new poet laureate of the United States will be introduced Wednesday. The poems of Donald Hall, a New Hampshire native, have been compared to those of Robert Frost. He will succeed Nebraskan Ted Kooser.

For 20 years, Shoebox has brought a quirky irreverence to the once-sentimental realm of greeting cards. Editor Sarah Tobabin and writer Dan Taylor talk to Robert Siegel about the tricky business of humor and the rejected idea that a writer can't quite let go of: the "funny, but no."