Music

The veteran performance artist admires the skipping rhythms and calm center in the piano Etude No. 10 by Philip Glass that she says lies just beyond her grasp.

Millsap delivers a staggering rendition of "The Very Last Day" in a performance recorded for an upcoming episode of Austin City Limits.

If the first single is any indication, the doom-metal band's forthcoming Heartless promises to be another milestone.

When Missy Elliott tells you, "I'm better," you sit down and listen. Or you go through several costume changes on an Afro-futuristic dancefloor and in a disco swimming pool.

Naomi Yang (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) directs a video for the Beijing husband-and-wife duo's languid and blissfully noisy shoegaze song about finding connection in isolation.

Watch the Virginia band sweep the NPR crowd off its feet with a collection of exquisite boleros by Puerto Rican composer Sylvia Rexach.

The Melbourne singer-songwriter is at the heart of the city's independent music scene.

The prolific garage rocker played the opening cut from his new, self-titled album live for KCRW.

The 88-year-old singer and actress is a living legend. She's performed with artists like Count Basie and Charlie Parker, and appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson an unprecedented 76 times.

There's an Elliott Smith-ian sensibility to the duo's original song, played here live at the Bowery Ballroom just before Mehldau and Thile went into the studio.