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After winning the Juno Award in 2003, Sam Roberts' trajectory has gone nowhere but up. The Canadian rocker started as a humble self-recorded singer-songwriter and quickly found himself one of the country's biggest exports. He performs songs off his new riff-filled CD in a session from WXPN.

Late in his career, Joseph Haydn spent some leisure time in London, lapping up the wealth of praise and composing a formidable set of 12 symphonies. Critic Ted Libbey recommends the best recordings.

Combining Cuban-influenced rumba with elements of soul, blues and reggae, the paraplegic street musicians in Staff Benda Bilili used to perform all over the zoo grounds of the Kinshasa area, attempting to earn money for a living. Along the way, they caught the attention of Massive Attack and Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz.

With songs about Anne Frank's final months at Bergen-Belsen, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea hardly seems like the stuff of high school theater. But with the aid of The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer, students in Lexington, Mass., have turned the seminal indie rock album into a surrealist production.

Relentless7 isn't just another one of Ben Harper's side projects. Instead, the band replaces Harper's past sound with stripped-down rock, which it plays in a session with host David Dye. Relentless7's debut album, White Lies for Dark Times, weaves Harper's soulful singing together with energetic drums and cascading electric guitars.

A Love Supreme, by John Coltrane and his powerful quartet, remains a towering and seemingly untouchable jazz classic. But the virtuosic genre-benders in the Turtle Island Quartet have done it justice, re-working the seminal album for strings and winning a Grammy for their trouble. They perform a live version on this week's JazzSet.

As a founding member of Jefferson Airplane, Jorma Kaukonen's masterful guitar work helped define psychedelic rock in the '60s. In a session from World Cafe, he performs songs from his new collection of acoustic blues and country, titled River of Time.

When Michael Benjamin Lerner stopped by the KEXP studios with Telekinesis, his songs sparkled with buoyant melodies and catchy hooks that shone like little pop gems. He pounded away on the drums in a frenzy of intensity and joy while singing along without effort.

Host David Dye welcomes Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby to the World Cafe. The couple's new self-titled record illustrates the unique teamwork that springs from a husband-and-wife partnership, while showcasing their individually dynamic songwriting skills.

Takeaways from yesterdays' Jan. 6 committee hearing. President Biden visits Israel. And, new video is released from the Uvalde school shooting.