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Nicole Schneit's song plays out like a short vignette, recounting observations with evocative economy and below-the-surface harmonies from Lower Dens' Jana Hunter.

Jarring, intense electronics give the Michigan singer-songwriter's sweet pop vocals a dark, luscious edge.

A bright, subtle storyteller, Bonar displays a mastery of pop-rock craftsmanship that keeps these songs as relentlessly catchy on the surface as they are alluringly complex underneath.

It's been 20 years since the "Queen Of Tejano Music" was murdered. Alt.Latino looks at her legacy.

All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen talks with NPR music reviewers Tom Moon, Will Hermes and Meredith Ochs about this year's Grammy Awards nominees.

Woods hadn't planned to make any new music in 2017, but after last year's election, the folk-rock band decided to focus on love.

The Cuban trumpeter first met Dizzy Gillespie in 1977, when the American jazzman came to Havana to play a concert. It was the start of a friendship that would last until Gillespie's death in 1993.

In what seems like an upbeat, rollicking song about finding love, Jordan Geiger still hints at the inevitability of loss in "Honey, Please."

The quartet harnessed tension on its 2012 debut, delivering fierce, fuzzy pop songs that could be sweet or sharp, depending who sang them. On its second album, Swearin' is up from two singers to three, and the personalities at play are even more distinct.

Remarkably, Gabriel unlocks a new dimension of Bon Iver's "Flume." Where Justin Vernon spent an entire album looking inward, Gabriel takes one of its most unassuming gems and locates its grandiosity. For all its plaintive, slow-motion searching, Gabriel's take builds into something ambitious and bold and, well, breathtaking.

Toro y Moi's Chaz Bundick makes overt advances to the dance floor on his first album as Les Sins. But he keeps his mind on pop music, too, as he doles out pleasures in three-minute bites.

On its first album since leaving a major label, the Florida band sounds at once self-assured and wistful, as confident as ever and yet more careful.

The Montreal band's fifth album spends a good deal of time on the idea of being haunted. It works on multiple levels -- as ebullient pop music and as frank, dark-hearted analysis of the way the past never stops creeping into life in the present day. Hear The Five Ghosts in its entirety here until its June 22 release.

Inspired by the emotionally charged and virtuosic music of the Baroque era, the adventurous mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli's new CD is devoted to the dazzling music associated with the age of the castrati.

Singers in Egypt have been jailed for things they've said, based on reasons like "corrupting public morals."

Children in the Columbus, Ohio, school system will likely begin their first day online because 4,500 teachers are striking after negotiations over a new contract with the district went nowhere.

To Kill A Mockingbird remains a publishing phenomenon even 50 years on and still sells nearly 1 million copies every year. In Scout, Atticus And Boo, Mary McDonagh Murphy gathers essays by fans of Harper Lee's book that reflect on its enduring meaning.

The Booker prize-winner's latest novel, an exploration of power and ambition, features a cast of characters bumping up against each other in 1914 Mesopotamia in 1914.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author says he'll never forget his mother's renditions of Nat King Cole songs.

Covering the elusive Nick Drake is rarely successful, but Lizz Wright's smooth, trumpet-accented version of "River Man" has the right kind of self-possession.