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In a video for "Limonium," Brooklyn-based composer Kelly Moran interrupts the stretched piano wire with corkscrews, forking the paths of sound.

John Fogerty — once lead singer of Credence Clearwater Revival and now a solo artist — has buried the hatchet with his record label. The result is a new greatest hits CD called The Long Road Home.

Beach House's sleepy "Saltwater" never feels weary or tiresome. Instead, it floats along in a wispy haze of skittering drumbeats that rise and fall like heartbeats. As Victoria Legrand sings, "Love you all the time / even though you're not mine," her voice sounds powerful and stripped bare.

Played on three string instruments, this music was the country's soundtrack from the turn of the 20th century to the 1940s.

A chat with the legend himself and band member Cameron Graves on the new album The Message.

Los Lobos' new CD, appropriately named The Ride, celebrates the band's 30 years together. Hear their extended interview with NPR's Renee Montagne and live performance at NPR.

The British-born vocalist, songwriter and keyboard player whose cool, soulful contralto helped define such classics as "You Make Loving Fun," "Everywhere" and "Don't Stop," died Wednesday.

The Kansas City pianist's big band eventually became the Count Basie Orchestra, and his ensemble's style came to represent his hometown's sound. The blogger and the Boss Lady have a listen to his 1932 classic.

The drummer was a first call for many of the finest singers of the 1960s and '70s, including Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne and Peggy Lee.

A venerated art-funk band that helped spawn hip-hop and No Wave, ESG should always stay in the way-back machine: It has such a singular sound that, were it to deviate even for a second, it would come across as calculated and fake. Thankfully, it's still 1978 in ESG's world.