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Between jokes, the punk-rock legends in Carbon/Silicon — Mick Jones from The Clash and Tony James from Generation X — performed live at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia on April 7. Hear this co-production with WXPN, webcast live on NPR Music.

Tokyo Police Club's party-starting mod-punk show up minus its heavy rhythms, in an acoustic version of "Tesselate." David Monks sits solo on The Current's stage, on the corner of 7th and Red River in Austin, for the SXSW festival.

Jaymay has been called a folk artist and she cites Bob Dylan among her influences. But her music is more layered and unpredictable than traditional folk singers. Jaymay was in Austin, TX for this year's South by Southwest music festival and took time out of her schedule to meet with All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen at the French Legation Museum, for an exclusive outdoor performance.

Pit Baumgartner — a.k.a. De Phazz — made his name constructing popular remixes of songs by famous jazz artists like Ella Fitzgerald. The German deejay's latest album is Tales of Trust.

Uncertainty may be the path to freedom, but that path is laced with thorny vines and booby-trapped with regret. On her sophomore album, On A Clear Night, Australian singer-songwriter Missy Higgins addresses that bittersweet quandary in "Where I Stood."

With a '70s-friendly sound that recalls The Beach Boys and CSNY, Grand Archives makes wistful indie-pop that's as lovely as it is hummable. The band's lineage can be traced to Carissa's Wierd [sic], a Seattle folk-rock group that spawned Sera Cahoone and Band of Horses.

Since being struck by a car, Gardot has suffered from short-term memory loss, sensitivity to light and sound, and the inability to sit up straight. But a doctor's suggestion to try music therapy has led to a burgeoning career on stage.

At the top of the UN's list of "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" are the people known as the Garifuna, bearers of a unique brand of Afro-Caribbean music and dance. A new CD by the Garifuna Women's Project helps preserve the legacy of the stories and music of the Garifuna people.

Freeway's newest album, Free At Last, promotes the Philadelphia rapper from promising rookie to established veteran. While the record sounds as if it could have been released at any point in the last seven years, the sturdy reliability of Free At Last is comforting.

A.A. Bondy has a real talent for hard-bitten blues-folk music, as well as an impressive arsenal of sneakily grabby guitar lines. "How Will You Meet Your End" falls back on bluesy boilerplate at times, but he sells it, thanks in large part to guitars that shimmer, slither, slide, and sing.