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Parker Longbough's new album closes with "3 Drunken Days," a tranquil folk-pop song complete with a shuffling rhythm and well-placed harmonica. It traffics in colorful imagery, as singer Matt Witthoeft recounts a three-day bender in the carnival atmosphere of New Orleans.

In the unlikely event that Dido were to mate with Bjork, Psapp is the likely result. "Hi" is a shimmery mix of the things the duo does best: gently insistent, vaguely Brazilian melodies layered over offbeat percussion.

To fans of Sufjan Stevens, Shara Worden is best-known as one of the backing vocalists in his band. On her own, Worden is a remarkable chanteuse who goes by the moniker My Brightest Diamond — and brings to mind the work of Jeff Buckley, Edith Piaf and Nina Simone.

In Buckhannon, W.Va., two-day hearings begin about the Sago Mine accident that killed 12 people on Jan. 2. Family members of the dead miners gave statements, and company officials presented their take on the accident, as well.

The Georgia state house has approved a bill that would levy a 5-percent surcharge on wire transfers by illegal immigrants to their native countries. State lawmakers are seeking to stem the tide of undocumented workers and recoup the cost of providing public services to them.

T Bone Burnett hasn't produced an album of his own music since 1992. That pause ends this month with two new projects out on CD. He's also embarking on his first concert tour in nearly 20 years. He talks with Liane Hansen about his latest efforts.

For all the song's double-entendres and social politics, Patricia Barber's "Narcissus" doubles as one of those sensual rhapsodies that seem perfect for a late night on some honky-tonk bar's jukebox.

A group of R&B and deep-house acts delve into Radiohead's music on Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads, producing a mesmerizing moment in The Randy Watson Experience's poignant makeover of "Morning Bell."

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff defends his decision to cut his agency's grants to New York City and for the Washington, D.C., area by 40 percent, saying New York still receives the most money of any city for security. News of the grant amounts prompted sharp criticism.

The trademark illustrations in The Wall Street Journal look like engravings. But they're actually intricate pointilist portraits. Petra Mayer visits stipple artist Noli Novak at her New Jersey studio.

The eclectic Canadian chamber ensemble performs and discusses its innovative music. The group has been playing a wide-ranging repertoire of everything from sonatas to tangos for over 10 years.

A constantly evolving guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, Mould has been an influential and even iconic musician for more than two decades, having fronted the pop-rock bands Husker Du and Sugar. Hear an interview.

In "Maybe Tonight," Nicole Atkins' robust, sultry voice conveys vulnerability and confrontation, seemingly without effort. Imagine if Patsy Cline led The Shangri-Las, or if k.d. lang had been raised on Bruce Springsteen and '80s hair-metal instead of country music.

In "Serpentine," it takes about 40 seconds for Chris Bathgate to introduce himself as a skilled purveyor of lovely gloom. Throughout the song, a variety of handsome instrumental window dressing obscures a sad rumination on estrangement.

The Cops' "Modern Black Flats" is the sound of righteous indignation — a sinewy, seductive bit of rage against the corrupt machinations of commerce that's as danceable as it is incendiary. Throughout the song, the band gives "Modern Black Flats" a sonic fury to match the lyrical one.

As Evangelicals' singer hits the warbling chorus his brooding devolves all the way into madness. Yet the song marries those moods with moments of catharsis that wash away the angst in an instant.

A constantly evolving guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, Mould has been an influential and even iconic musician for more than two decades, having fronted the pop-rock bands Husker Du and Sugar. He'll perform a concert from WXPN and World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

Rice wears his heart on his sleeve in this gutsy, widescreen meditation on life and love.

The New York duo plays spiky, dense and danceable pop-rock songs with an electronic pulse. Voices is the sound of a band at ease and assured in its moment, as it seizes every scrap of momentum it's created for itself.

Twin sisters Miranda Anna and Elektra June Kilbey-Jansson, a.k.a. Say Lou Lou, have been bubbling under for more than a year since they first popped up on the BBC's Sound Of 2014 list.