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At the beginning of lockdown, the legendary funk bassist began posting uplifting messages to Instagram, where they found a receptive audience in drummer Adam Deitch of the band Lettuce.

The singer-songwriter had a tough couple of years, losing both parents while balancing new love. The experience fueled the country-leaning balance of her new album, Big Time.

Janacek's fanciful opera The Cunning Little Vixen tells a story populated by forest creatures and people who find themselves humbled by the woodland's natural quiet and peace. The production is from Houston Grand Opera.

Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, recently returned to the world of popular music with An Other Cup, his first secular studio album in 28 years. The disc contains old songs that were never recorded, songs he wrote in the last couple of years, and songs that he came up with once he reached the studio.

Sara Gazarek's latest CD combines a singer-songwriter's mentality with jazz improvisation. It features arrangements of contemporary songs by Leonard Cohen, Paul McCartney and Gillian Welch among originals. Hear an interview and performance.

Paddy Casey may lay out a grim recitation of society's ills in "Fear," but he wisely keeps hope at the forefront of the mix, rooting his fears in parental love and letting a whiz-bang arrangement bury the dark subject matter in bright strumming and zinging synths.

The budding alt-pop icons bring their decidedly different sounds to WXPN's daytime concert series. Wainwright recently released the grandiose, theatrical Release the Stars, while Case shows up on The New Pornographers' forthcoming Challengers.

Drummer Louis Hayes leads the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band in a musical tribute to one of the most popular groups of the 1960s. Hayes is just the man to revive the hard-bop tunes, as he spent his 20s with the legendary alto sax player. Hear the concert recorded by JazzSet.

The improvisational rock guitar master and the electronic composer collaborate on a bittersweet, luminescent tune to usher in autumn.

Host Bob Boilen rejoins co-host Robin Hilton for this week's essential mix of new music, tales from Bob's week on the road and a heart-stopping amount of coffee.

With more than six million visitors from around the world, downtown Montreal hosts one of the world's biggest events of its kind. Hear some of the native talent on display this year.

These 12 previously unreleased recordings all shine a spotlight on Hendrix's considerable charisma, preserving the guitarist's work in amber while still polishing it up as good as new.

Did you know that Sonny Rollins played on a Rolling Stones song? Hear that and other jazz cameos from famous pop-rock tracks.

To mark the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi's birth, one of today's preeminent sopranos spins her favorite music by the master opera composer.

This week, All Songs Considered starts fresh with brand-new music due out this summer. Hear songs from Eleanor Friedberger, Mates of State, Tinariwen, and others.

Researchers compiled hundreds of studies of tree-dwelling and ground-dwelling ants to make their estimate of 2.5 million ants for every human.

Halvorson balances golden-era hard-bop order and free improvising entropy. At the NPR Music offices, her band strikes comforting tones, but also morphs, rephrases and implodes those ideas.

When Muslims do appear, they tend to be violent Middle Eastern men, a new study has found after surveying 200 popular series from the U.S, U.K. and elsewhere.

Bandleader David Thomas says the inspiration for first song from Pere Ubu's forthcoming album came from a night he spent in a disco in 1981.

A solo singer, go-to collaborator and member of the Pistol Annies, Monroe is a star who's both arrived and rising: accepted by insiders without losing her veneer of outsider cool.