Support for Houston keeps coming in from around the world. The band Coldplay was supposed to perform there Friday. So at a concert in Miami this week, they performed a new song called "Houston."
Spector, who spoke to Terry Gross in 1988, was part of the 1960s girl group that gave us "Be My Baby." She left the music business for a number of years before returning to recording in the 1970s.
King began his career in the '50s with The Drifters, but it was the '61 hit "Stand by Me" that sealed his musical legacy. He spoke with Terry Gross in '88 about his career and his childhood in Harlem.
Williams started the famed harmony group, whose hits included "My Girl" and "Ain't Too Proud To Beg." Later he kept The Temptations together after its lead singers left. Originally broadcast in 1988.
The Belfast-born, London-based production duo previews its upcoming self-titled album with a video for the standout track "Aura," directed by filmmaker Matilda Finn.
The band's innovative new video, for the latest song from the forthcoming Sleep Well Beast, is an impressive and slightly unsettling work of time-lapse photography.
This week's essential mix from All Songs Considered includes the profoundly warped sounds of King Krule, Beck's new Beatles-esque song "Dear Life," an S. Carey track featured on Flaked and more.