Music

Dawes, Lydia Loveless and more also joined NPR's Ann Powers and Jewly Hight for intimate rounds of storytelling and music at Nashville's Union Station Hotel during AmericanaFest 2016.

The stories behind 22, A Million emerged during a nearly two-hour interview with frontman Justin Vernon at a press conference in September. The full interview wasn't available to the public until now.

The country megastar paints a velvet portrait of a whiskey-soaked dive bar festooned with Christmas decorations in a song co-authored by Matraca Berg, Hayes Carll and Allison Moorer.

The beloved alt-rock band plays a special session for KCRW at The Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles.

At Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, Conor Oberst delivered a powerfully spare set of new songs from his new album, Ruminations.

New Orleans is a place where you throw a parade for a funeral, where joyful music is found in struggle. In this concert documentary, two local legends show off their hometown pride.

Nearly 30 years into her career, Mazzy Star's singer still takes her time in the pursuit of beauty. Here, she works with My Bloody Valentine's Colm O'Ciosoig, as well as guests like Kurt Vile.

Frontwoman Alynda Lee Segarra dedicates the performance "to the liberation of black and brown people in the United States."

The desolate landscape of Salar de Uyuni provides the backdrop for a song by Stars Of The Lid's Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie. "The Few Of Us Left" refers to the people who harvest salt on the flats.