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  • Music supervisors help develop the emotion of a scene using songs. Now they want a union to represent them.
  • The jurors found Balwani guilty on all 12 counts of defrauding both Theranos investors and the patients.
  • In terms of integrity, Tyner is the same pianist today as he was with John Coltrane in the '60s. Tyner plays with color, like a big abstract painting, and dances with rhythm. Hear a concert recorded at Yoshi's in Oakland, Calif., with special guest Joe Lovano.
  • Members of the British punk band The Mekons have been making music together for about 30 years now. Though they started as contrarian rockers inspired by The Sex Pistols, their new album, Natural, is mostly acoustic.
  • Sharon Jones has great talent and a great story. The "queen of funk" has faced music honchos and wildly shifting music trends, but has more than earned her nickname. Hear Jones and her band, The Dap-Kings, in an interview and performance from WFUV.
  • Earle's marriage to Allison Moorer two years ago and his move to New York City have resulted in Washington Square Serenade, which the roots-rock icon calls a collection of love songs to his wife and his new home. Hear an interview and in-studio performance.
  • "The New Girl In Town," performed by Brittany Snow on the Hairspray soundtrack, does what any good song from a musical should do: It reflects the singer's perspective on the plot at that moment. Plus, it stands on its own as the exact type of music it's supposed to be.
  • Named for the little slice of New York City that gave rise to Tito Puente, pianist Oscar Hernandez's Spanish Harlem Orchestra celebrates the rhythms of salsa music. The Grammy-winning group played a fiery set at the 2008 Portland Jazz Festival.
  • Placido Domingo stars in single acts from three different operas, in a Washington National Opera "Trilogy," highlighted by Domingo's unforgettable performance in one of his signature roles, the title character of Verdi's Otello.
  • The Brooklyn band's music has always had a larger-than-life flamboyance about it. But on Then Came The Morning, it's elevated by nuance that ventures frequently and welcomely into grace.
  • Friel, who co-founded the experimental rock band Parts & Labor, continues down a solo path of electronic noise, rhythm and melody that also manifests as melancholy pop.
  • On this week's All Songs, Bob returns from vacation a (somewhat) changed man, and he and Robin find music that they say "hits them just right."
  • Cronin's "Apathy" is a surly, snarling, thoroughly enjoyable two-and-a-half-minute rocker.
  • The Italian pianist and composer brings his emotional and reflective music to the Tiny Desk.
  • Singer and songwriter Mark Linkous, who performed under the name Sparklehorse, took his own life at the age of 47. Rock critic Ken Tucker remembers the man behind the albums Good Morning Spider and It's a Wonderful Life.
  • "Albatross" finds Olga Goreas singing sweetly while accompanied by insular, shoegaze-tinged fuzz. Yet as the song cakes on layers of glorious harmonies, it begins to buckle like a collapsing star.
  • The L.A. band's swirling sound is full of mysterious buzzes and coos, and there's a sense of everything-in-its-right-place grace and impeccability to it, yet the songs themselves never feel icy or distant. Warpaint's self-titled second album feels fashionable, sure, but not at the expense of approachability.
  • He will answer to Senate and House committees on the company's failure to protect users' personal data.
  • The Land of the Free has become a legal minefield, says attorney Philip K. Howard — especially for teachers and doctors, whose work has been paralyzed by fear of suits. The answer? Howard has four propositions for simplifying U.S. law.
  • One of the original dubstep producers has a new album that incorporates sounds recorded during a trip to Cuba.
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