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Damron used to lead the booze-drenched roots-rock band I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House. Time hasn't mellowed his worldview, but in "Hallelujah," he's learned that righteous indignation can be even more affecting when it's delivered with a whisper instead of a scream.

When Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser formed a band in 2002, they never intended to record their electro-pop explorations. But now they celebrate their major label debut. Hear an interview and studio performance.

The soul singer's new album, The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3, is generating quite a buzz. The award-winning singer talks about the events of her seven-year, singing career, including a new film in the works.

Hoop crafts an eclectic concoction of troubadour folk, summery California pop and Broadway balladry. At times, the music can be introspectively nuanced, at others powerful and cinematic.

Jay McShann, nicknamed "Hootie," helped define the Kansas City style of jazz, which mixed blues and boogie woogie. In this program from 1980, McShann talks about those early days in Kansas City and meeting a young sax player named Charlie Parker.

Riley Baugus is a 41-year-old banjo player from North Carolina, and for him, music could have stopped a century ago. Using homemade banjos, he plays old-time music: the tunes from the Scots-Irish who settled and farmed in the southern Appalachians.

From the musical buzz in pre-WWI Vienna to the experimental New York scene of the 1960s and on through today, Alex Ross reveals the story of 20th-century music in his new book The Rest Is Noise.

In his short but brilliant career, he pioneered a new standard of rapid-fire virtuosity on the electric bass and helped bridge the jazz and pop music of his day. Close collaborators offer a retrospective on Jaco Pastorius.

Vega's pop-music career spans more than two decades. Her first album in six years, Beauty & Crime, showcases an acoustic sound that's nicely matched to personal lyrics and stories about her native New York. Hear an interview and in-studio performance.

O'Riordan gained plenty of notoriety as lead singer of the '90s alt-pop sensation The Cranberries, but with the release of her first solo album, she's looking to establish herself as a solo artist. Hear an interview, as well as an in-studio performance of the singer's old and new songs.