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Wye Oak build songs around simple ideas that can seem opaque, but always pack an unexpected kick. Take It In could be about a fight between two people who know each other very well — in addition to being bandmates, Stack and Wasner are a couple — and bash at each other with everything they have in an effort to keep the relationship alive.

James Francies delivers a poignant and powerful Tiny Desk (home) concert.

Named for the Cincinnati neighborhood where the band used to live, Over the Rhine is husband and wife Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist. For more than 20 years, the two have written lyrics that they hope connect on a universal level.

Capable of singing blues, R&B, jazz, and pop, Dinah Washington touched the jazz world with her gritty, salty vocals. Her album, Unforgettable, contains the hit, "This Bitter Earth." According to jazz commentator Murray Horwitz, the album conjures up 1960s images of supper clubs, cocktail dresses, and suits with skinny ties.

Beyoncé's upcoming visual album, Black Is King, is based on the music of The Lion King: The Gift soundtrack. A press release calls it "a celebratory memoir for the world on the Black experience."

Daniel speaks with Lou Friedman in Santa Monica, California, where he has organized the 1997 International Conference on Mobile Planetary Robots. Some 150 space engineers from around the world are demonstrating the robots they hope tto send on the next space mission to Mars. (4:30) 9. Herb Caen - We remember legendary San Francisco newspaper columnist Herb Caen (Herb Cane), who died earlier today. He was 80 years old. (2:15) 10. Huey Newton - The play "A Huey P. Newton Story" opens in New York next week at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. The play, a one-man show based largely on the words of the former Black Panther leader, was created and performed by Roger G. Smith - an actor that has been in a variety of films, from 'Do The Right Thing' to 'Get On The Bus'. Daniel talks with Smith about the difficulty of creating a one-man show around a character who, though mesmerizing, was not an especially good orator. In fact, he was shy, he stuttered and had a rather high pitched voice.

Director Robert Yapkowitz and singer-songwriter Margo Price join Bob Boilen in a live conversation about this new documentary on the folk singer.

R&B singers Nicole Wray and Terri Walker both had promising starts to their careers more than a decade ago, but neither became a household name. Now they've teamed up and traded in slick, hip-hop influenced styles for a decidedly throwback feel.

Los Tigres del Norte at Folsom Prison, a new Netflix documentary, shows the power of music to heal.

Bob Dylan's nine-minute "Ain't Talkin'" saunters along at a measured gait that inspires the author to savor mystic gardens and this "weary world of woe." He doesn't seek out company — he intends to take his troubled secrets with him. He is, as he notes repeatedly, not talking, just walking.

Join us for Music on the River with Samantha Crain and David Huckfelt, June 16th at 7pm in the KAXE Rotary Tent along the Mississippi River!From Oklahoma, Crain has been a long-time KAXE favorite, she is the winner of two NAMMYs (Native American Music Awards) in 2009 for Folk Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. She also won the Indigenous Music Award for Best Rock Album in 2019. She has had songs featured on 90210, HBO's Hung, Reservation Dogs, and has contributed in many independent documentaries and films.Huckfelt is another dear friend to KAXE as a member of The Pines and through his solo work the past few years. Releasing his 2nd solo album in the middle the pandemic, Room Enough, Time Enough, Huckfelt has solidified his important voice and place in the Americana world.Bring a blanket, lawn chair, a cooler and your friends for this free show!Thanks to the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund for making this FREE concert possible.

Stephen Stills has finished his first solo album in 14 years, a project interrupted by tours with David Crosby, Graham Nash and Neil Young. They appear on the new Stills CD, Man Alive!, but Stills made sure the songs reflected his own, ever-shifting musical tastes.

Sometimes out of the messy acrimony of a band breakup comes music of great clarity and passion. Written in 1988 after the dissolution of Husker Du, Bob Mould's Workbook serves as the guitarist and singer's attempt to shake off a season of hurtful accusations and lingering bad feelings.

The Tallest Man On Earth has a way of upending expectations and rendering familiarity moot.

Members of Pallbearer and Sabbath Assembly help Dallas metal band reap the agricultural apocalypse in a vivid 17-minute epic.

Thompson gathers many branches of a formidable family tree that includes Richard, Linda, Teddy, Kami and several musicians not named Thompson.

Y La Bamba's lead singer teams up with the head of the thrilling neo-mambo band Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta. The result is somehow even greater than the sum of its parts.

The Oscar-nominated Icelandic composer crafts an enveloping instrumental take on the Orpheus myth. His simple, haunting sketches use the familiar tale to comment on changes in his own life.

Whether you use it as a balm or an echo chamber for your despair, Ware's second album is a celebration of gloriously messy feelings, each tamed by her soft touch.

Explosions In The Sky guitarist Mark Smith and Eluvium's Matthew Cooper make natural collaborators. On their second album as Inventions, they craft head-nodding, vaguely unsettling music together.