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Hear indie's new guard pay tribute to its icons — and a book that chronicled the rise of the genre — in a 4-hour concert recorded live at NYC's Bowery Ballroom.

The Black Angels' music is hardly the stuff of stripped-down acoustic confessionals: It's the sound of a distant rumble, possibly beamed from a garage in a distant decade.

A genre-bending cellist and songwriter who combines classical artistry with bluegrass and pop, Sollee has created a unique and infectious take on folk music.

The 11-year-old singer, best known for her rousing appearance on America's Got Talent, performs show tunes, Classical repertoire such as or even a pop tune. Watch Evancho perform Handel's "Ombra mai fu" for a stunned audience at the NPR Music offices.

It's hard to think of anyone who embodies the dual challenges of tradition and innovation better than composer and pianist Geri Allen. She brought a trio to the club for a live video webcast.

Newcomers from Minneapolis, Polica arrived in Austin aloft on a boatload of buzz. Their live show mixed two live drummers and the heavily manipulated vocals of singer Channy Leaneagh.

Hear the trad jazz experts, who've been together since 1971, play at Newport.

The instrumental quartet gave a stirring, meditative performance at All Tomorrow's Parties.

Hear Bradford Cox's atmospheric pop in a full concert, recorded live at Moogfest in Asheville, N.C.

The guitarist may be best known as a modern jazz musician, but he's never shied away from his funk and rock upbringing. Case in point: Rogers' new trio, full of skronky shredding and biting backbeats, performs live in concert.

The electro-pop producer surrounded herself with equipment, and began making magic with pedals and knobs at the KEXP studio in Seattle.

The San Diego roots-rock quintet moved to Brooklyn and left its bar-band sound behind. Check out the "new" Delta Spirit in a Live Fridays webcast from WXPN.

Kevin Puts based his winning score on the French film Joyeux Nöel, which tells the true story of a surprise cease-fire among German, French and Scottish soldiers on the battlefields of World War I.

The Lafayette, La., indie-rock band entered SXSW 2011 as a band to watch — and it didn't disappoint. Here the group's headlining gig at KUT's SXSW showcase, recorded live at Momo's in Austin.

Nervous, jittery and sparkling with energy, Minneapolis' Dessa stopped by The Current's studios to record a session with the help of local luminaries Jeremy Messersmith and Aby Wolf.

The band plays briskly infectious, harmony-rich folk-pop music that benefits greatly from its propulsive, Afrobeat-inspired rhythms. It performed songs from its 2010 album at Sasquatch.

When he turned up at the NPR Music offices to perform three songs from The King Is Dead, Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy wasn't expecting to be staring into dozens, if not hundreds, of rapt faces.

Hear the first of the dynamic Japanese pianist's two shows at Newport.

Hear a special set from Newport, featuring Theo Bleckmann, Kate McGarry and pianist Uri Caine.

The influential post-hardcore band's first show in three years attracts a hardy, impassioned crowd.