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Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Harps and Angels, Randy Newman's first album in nine years.

Encouraged by singer-songwriter Amos Lee, Ahn left her childhood home in Pennsylvania to pursue her music across the country in California. She brings her dreamy, imaginative roots-pop to a live performance on Mountain Stage.

Jennifer Haigh's new novel, The Condition, is about a girl who has a genetic disorder that stops her development just before puberty. The "condition" gives her family an excuse to resist facing each other and fall apart.

Twenty-four albums into her career, Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer-songwriter Carly Simon remains a venerable and popular icon. Here, she stops by World Cafe to discuss This Kind of Love, her first collection of original material in eight years.

Welch and her musical partner David Rawlings filled the Newport air with their gorgeous harmonies throughout this sunny Sunday-afternoon set.

The Lord Dog Bird is the solo project of Colin McCann, the guitarist for Baltimore-based rock outfit Wilderness. The project's self-titled debut album is disarming in its immediacy, due in large part to its creaky four-track production and minimalist sound. The guitars squeal, the drums clank and the vocals crackle, and the effect is an album that evokes the moods of a cranky, disillusioned living-room recluse.

On his new album, The Hard Way, the British singer and guitarist delves deep into old-fashioned soul and R&B, channeling the influence and spirit of Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson.

American and Brazilian musicians have been finding common ground ever since jazz artists turned to bossa nova 50 years ago. But the result has never quite sounded like Nation Beat's mash-up of Southern country and northeast Brazilian maracatu.

Since forming in 2003, the Virginia band has shifted its stylistic focus from traditional bluegrass to an all-encompassing, broad style of original acoustic music. Hear King Wilkie perform overlooking West Virginia's New River Gorge.

The Airborne Toxic Event's self-titled full-length debut has earned the band comparisons to Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire and Interpol, among others. Complementing Mikel Jollett's dry vocals with surf-friendly rock, the group has made more than a few "Bands to Watch" lists, both before and since the release of its debut.