Songs We Love: Josh Abbott Band, 'Ghosts'
The regretful first song that the country singer-songwriter composed for his group's concept album about the end of a marriage now has a video.
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Neon Indian: A Musician With The Mind Of A Filmmaker
Alan Palomo says he deliberately took his time making his band's latest LP: "At some point I was just kind of like, 'I don't want to spend my 20s in a van."
Hot Sugar Makes Music Out Of Anything And Everything
"I try to capture sounds the same way a photographer would capture an image," says musician Nick Koenig, whose songs are meticulously constructed from the noise of everyday life.
In 'Great Scott,' Joyce DiDonato Leads An Opera Within An Opera
The new Dallas Opera production is a meta-story about the value — and cost — of great art.
Rod Stewart Picks Up The Pen
At age 70, after a long affair with soul standards and the American Songbook, Stewart has warmed up to writing his own material again. He joins Scott Simon to discuss the new album Another Country.
The Music Of 'The Martian,' Deconstructed
In an conversation from the Song Exploder podcast, score composer Harry Gregson-Williams explains how he matched moments to melodies in the new film, which stars Matt Damon as a stranded astronaut.
#NPRreads: White Privilege, FBI Director's Remarks On Policing, And Oyster Farming
Also this week: a story from an NPR Music reporter about the "lost art of listening."
WFUV Presents: Dave Gahan & Soulsavers
The Depeche Mode singer and the production duo fill Manhattan's MSR Studios with a 10-piece band.
A Teasing Trumpeter: Jeffrey Curnow's Cartoons
In the Philadelphia Orchestra trumpeter's slightly twisted world, bears play bass trombones, Liszt has a brother named Bukhett and snowblowers can be filed as musical instrument deductions.
George Wallington On Piano Jazz
The bop pianist joined Marian McPartland in 1985, not long after a hiatus of nearly 25 years.