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Nellie McKay is a singer-songwriter known for her distinctive mix of jazz vocals and torch singing with cabaret pop, rock and a rap-inspired rants. Hear McKay in a full concert recorded live from Alexandria, VA.

Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel conquered the world of opera in the '90s, singing at major concert venues the world over. Amid two New York City appearances, he visits the WNYC studios for an interview.

The jazz scene is abuzz about singer/pianist/composer John Proulx. His piano playing is hot and swinging, and his voice recalls the smooth mellow sounds of Chet Baker. He shows off his compositional skills, performing his own tune, "Stuck in a Dream with Me." Hear the performance.

When soft became the new loud in indie circles a few years ago, Iron and Wine quickly stepped ahead of the pack as the most arresting of the whispery, lo-fi new-folk artists. Led by the gentle-voiced Sam Beam, the group makes morose and mysterious music. Hear the band in a full concert.

Cahoone has been playing warm, easygoing, country-tinged roots music ever since shedding her role as Band of Horses' drummer a few years ago. In that time, she's come to suit a specific mood to perfection: Her songs are about comforting the weary — acknowledging exhaustion while offering reassurance.

With this live version of "Wonderwall," Mehldau reduces Oasis' most famous song to a post-bop stride-piano exercise.

When Edie Brickell & New Bohemians had a hit in 1989, the band performed "What I Am" on Saturday Night Live, where Brickell spied singer Paul Simon. Now she's teamed up with her stepson, Harper Simon, to form The Heavy Circles, an indie-rock band with dark harmonies.

In Lalo's evocative opera, the legendary, sunken city of Ys is destroyed by a heartsick princess, who learns that she and her sister are in love with the same man. From the Capitole Theatre in Toulouse, France.

A ferociously intelligent singer-songwriter, Jaffe never stops inventing, reinventing, exploring and reflecting on her (and our) place in a forbidding, foreboding world.

On its second album, the D.C.-area duo borrows heavily from the legacy of Dischord Records — at times recalling Fugazi, Smart Went Crazy and Shudder To Think — while still sounding fresh and vital.

On All Songs Considered, hosts Robin and Bob go through a slew of new music, featuring premieres from Sebadoh, Typhoon, Moderat and more. Also the mix-tape debate continues with Stephen Thompson.

Always provocative, the band jettisons post-punk thrash in favor of a sturdier Top 40 pop sound that recalls the early to mid-'80s.

Argentina's Gustavo Santaolalla and Uruguayan Juan Campodonico mix electronica with tango and folk. Their eight-piece band's new album, Presente, shimmers in a way their previous records didn't, with deceptively simple electronic textures.

This is likely to be one of the most beautiful albums you'll hear in 2018.

Mal Devisa and JD AKA ThrashKitten join the Chicago multi-instrumentalist for the extraterrestrial "dOn't turn me Off," a song dripping with positivity.

Care and tenderness are integral to this minimal and memorable album, one of Bob Boilen's favorites of 2017.

In what seems like an upbeat, rollicking song about finding love, Jordan Geiger still hints at the inevitability of loss in "Honey, Please."

Don't know your Traviata from your Trovatore or your Otello from your Aida? Try out this handy cheat sheet — with music — to explore the greatest of Italian composers on the centennial of his birth. Hear his music and learn the unlikely story of his rise from a small town to international renown.

How do you ironically cover a song that's already a parody of itself? "Earnestly" seems to be the answer, at least based on the version of "Fight for Your Right" from The Hotrats' debut album, Turn Ons — a collection of 12 covers authored by Supergrass members Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey.

The singer's new album shakes up her rumbling acoustic arrangements with an influx of electric sounds, in the process giving her a greater arsenal with which to brood, search, seethe and menace.