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With eclectic instrumentation, hear the lustrous pop-rock band's sunny songs in a live concert.

Hear the duo perform their sweet, harmony-rich folk-pop songs with loving chemistry at Newport.

It's easy to see why the drummer is in demand among jazz's international stars — just watching him manipulate polyrhythms will suffice. He also writes music: His open, soaring quartet performs live.

Word of mouth spread quickly about Howard after a series of performances around his native U.K., and in this session from KCRW, you can see why. Watch him sing "Depth Over Distance".

Deer Tick frontman John McCauley performs "Main Street" among the portable toilets at the 2012 Sasquatch Music Festival. Appropriately, the song is a morning-after number.

Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club was home to a night of New Orleans soul and funk when Galactic took the stage for a performance, originally webcast live on NPR Music Feb. 23.

Hear Charles Lloyd, Indian-born tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain and drumming phenom Eric Harland.

Hear the 19-year-old Boston-area alto saxophonist play with the 79-year-old Woods at Newport.

Moreno's breathtaking voice is passionate and stylistically malleable, as she glides back and forth easily between bossa nova and bluesy rock. Moreno sings three songs from her newest album, Illustrated Songs, at the NPR Music offices.

The violinist is one of the most versatile musicians working today — she collaborates with Bill Frisell, Norah Jones and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, among others. Her newest band is in this live recording.

English musician Thomas Dolby is a mad scientist, harnessing the power of electronic music as none have before him. Here, he performs a noontime concert at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

He stands in a long line of virtuoso Cuban-born musicians based in New York. In a live performance, the pianist hears the island's percussive sweep as modern, electrified jazz.

Bach's Goldberg Variations is sweet and beautiful music. But Jeremy Denk, from the comfort of his living room Steinway, digs deeper to focus on one of the Goldberg's "dark jewels."

A longtime favorite of KPLU, the pianist performs with her trio in the station's Seattle studio. Here, she performs two songs with Anthony Pinciotti and Omer Avital.

The Nashville Symphony Orchestra brings a wonderfully weird program to Carnegie Hall, including the New York premiere of a new electric violin concerto by Terry Riley, with soloist Tracy Silverman.

The gifted singer-songwriter's performance in our offices was the best Valentine's Day gift we could have gotten, short of the immediate cessation of the holiday itself.

Jones' name is synonymous with the Hammond B3 organ. At 17, he recorded the instrument's anthem, "Green Onions," with his band Booker T and The MG's. Watch him play the song all alone in the NPR Music offices — and with such joy, you'd swear he just discovered it.

Featuring songs from his forthcoming album, Ernest Greene brings hazy bedroom electronica to the Sasquatch Music Festival with a broader sound and an expanded backing band.

Hear a new set of repertoire played at Newport by the tenor saxophonist who blazes his own trail.

Hear the fervently imaginative trumpeter perform at Newport with his trio and special guests.