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Brandi Carlile's second album, The Story, broods with a powerful confidence and earthiness, and improves on the potential of her self-titled debut. She is not afraid to really put herself out there, even with something as naked and honest as her voice cracking.

The Boston band's second album provides a perfect soundtrack for thoughtful, beautiful times. Gem Club reveals new intricacies on In Roses, which sounds more resplendent with more ambient passages. The voices and cello merge and weave together perfectly.

The FCC votes to require Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone companies to link their customers with 911 services. Witnesses testified at the FCC meeting about dire results when they tried to call 911 and couldn't get through.

Morrison's face bears the lines and concaves of a 62-year-old man. But in his new "School of Hard Knocks," his voice sounds as youthful and swaggering as it did when he was doing a moondance more than 30 years ago.

The singer-songwriter and Oklahoma native quit school to hit the road and live on coffee and peanut-butter crackers. But her unique voice has carried her a long way, even if making music for her is both a painful and joyful experience.

Filipino pianist Cecile Licad has a nightclub voice and sultry looks, but when she plays Rachmaninoff, she may as well be a native-born Russian. She talks about her career and performs on stage at the La Jolla SummerFest.

Vocal coach Melissa Cross is known as the "Scream Queen" for her work teaching metal, punk and hardcore performers how to use their voice without ruining their vocal chords. She teaches them how to growl, bark, bellow and scream.

Saudi Arabia continues to crack down on political reformers amid a string of anti-Western attacks inside the Kingdom. NPR's Deborah Amos continues her series on Iraq's Arab neighbors with a look at the competing voices for change in Saudi Arabia.

Everyone on earth seems to have recorded "Tea for Two," but the multilingual lounge act Pink Martini makes it clear that the cloying classic is a fantasy. Paired with angel-voiced Jimmy Scott, singer China Forbes invests the song with a delicate intimacy.

Ray LaMontagne is one of the most expressive songwriters of our time. He came into the studio to perform songs from his debut album Trouble. His well-traveled voice and intense style have won him legions of fans.

Jolie Holland's voice seems to come from another age. At 29, she often draws comparisons to blues singers Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith, but her music is a mix of front-porch folk and jazz, and distinctly her own.

The funk/soul band mixes percussion, trumpets, guitars, organs, and bass, but its key ingredient is Jones' incredibly soulful voice. The group expertly emulates classic '60s and '70s funk. Hear the band in a performance and interview.

The legendary showman didn't want to cancel his show in New Zealand despite a pneumonia diagnosis earlier in the day. "I played and sang my heart out, until my voice could sing no more," he wrote.

Bobby Ellerbee left his studies to host a radio show, voice a beloved cartoon character, even party with Etta James. Lately, though, he returned to do the one thing he hadn't done yet: graduate.

Vaughan was, arguably, the foremost interpreter of Brazilian music in jazz history. Recorded three years before she died, Brazilian Romance is her equivalent of Johnny Cash's American Recordings — full of contemporary spirit, propelled by a timeless voice.

A late-blooming belter with an eternal and authoritative voice, LaVette is unafraid to reinvent classic songs that might have otherwise seemed untouchable. Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook will stream here in its entirety until its release on May 25.

On his debut album, Sinners Like Me, Church plants his feet in traditional-country territory, but his depth and ambition remain a constant. His thoughtful lyrics — delivered in a rough baritone voice — help make the record stick.

The South African folk guitarist has been recording for 15 years, while serving as a prominent voice of the anti-apartheid movement. Mahlasela also writes poetry and music, mostly addressing topics of freedom, equality and protest of the apartheid government.

Katharine Whalen's first album in seven years offers a mix of jazz, '60s-style pop and occasional trip-hop beats, all fueled by the former Squirrel Nut Zipper's playful, confident voice. The result is dazzling and seductive.

After fans clamored for its release, Extraordinary Machine finally came out. The result is honed down to its essential and most striking features: Fiona Apple's voice and a modest accompaniment produced by Dr. Dre protege Mike Elizondo.