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The onetime professional boxer turned singer-songwriter has an innate gift for storytelling, and on his fifth album, the tales range from drugs, to murder, to lust. It's an Americana delight, mixing blues, rock, and soul with Thorn's characteristic deadpan humor.

In the late 1970s, D.C.-based band Urban Verbs was destined to be the "next big thing." However, after two albums, Urban Verbs was dropped from its label. This weekend, the band reunites for one show only at the 9:30 Club. Guy Raz speaks with the original members.

The Black Keys enlisted Danger Mouse as producer of their first album recorded in a real studio. The resulting collection takes their minimalist sound into a new dimension, with unexpected arrangements and expanded instrumentation. Hear an interview and performance from WXPN.

Singer Simone, the daughter of the legendary Nina Simone, is giving her mother's songs a new twist. She talks with Farai Chideya about her childhood, her mother's influence on her own music, and what it meant to create the big-band tribute album, titled Simone on Simone.

Three years ago, a Peruvian-born pop singer, a guitarist with a past in new wave, and a dub-wise bassist from Barbados formed a band in Canada. Pacifika's members talk about the worldly chill-out music of their recent debut album, Asuncion.

The Avett Brothers' members aren't all brothers, but it's hard to tell from their close musical kinship. In a session on KEXP, the band talks about breaking out on its seventh album and growing up in punk and hardcore bands. It also performs two new songs.

Silver's soulful, Latin-tinged hard bop tunes implanted themselves into the heads of jazz fans everywhere. So bassist Christian McBride drew together many of Silver's former colleagues and a handful of all-star musicians to salute the great pianist.

He was one of the most promising pianists of his generation when a 1953 plane crash ended his life at the age of 31. But thanks to an enterprising Australian music lover, a new two-CD set captures Kapell at the peak of his career.

A bright young storyteller with a mesmerizing stage presence, English singer-songwriter David Ford has released two albums of dark, dramatic rock that brings to mind the works of Damien Rice, among others. Hear Ford in an interview and performance from WXPN.

Despite his high profile and popularity in the industry, the former Jayhawks singer-songwriter has a low-key, almost shy demeanor. The alt-country pioneer performs songs from his first solo CD, Vagabonds, in an interview and performance on WFUV.