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The band features new material from The Whole Love in a live show from Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Hear a special show by The Jayhawks, live from the historic Fitzgerald Theater, featuring songs from the Minnesota veterans' first new album in eight years (and a few classics, too).

Grouplove writes songs that have you pounding the steering wheel to the beat, and are worth rolling down the car windows and sharing with pedestrians whether they want to hear them or not. The young band brings that sort of infectious energy to the NPR Music offices.

The raucous band of rock veterans visits OPB's studios with a set of songs that go for the gut.

The blazing guitar phenomenon from Niger played live at New York's (Le) Poisson Rouge.

Hear the electronic pop group perform songs from its forthcoming sophomore record, Something.

In under five hours at the Newport Jazz Festival, Harland was the drummer for three different world-class bands. Watch a duo improvisation from a rather unorthodox venue.

Singer James Mercer performs the first single off of his band's new album Port Of Morrow, "Simple Song".

The versatile, playful rapper mixed well-known samples with a live-band bounce that quickly won over the crowd.

Thile and Daves play the traditional bluegrass music of icons Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs with New York City intensity. Watch the dexterous duo perform songs from Sleep With One Eye Open at the NPR Music offices.

Hear the 17-member indie-folk band bring its soul-stirring beauty to the Harbor Stage at Newport.

Hear Taylor Goldsmith and his Dawes-adjacent band fuse rich harmonies with a hearty kick live.

In slicked-back hair and vintage clothing, hear Pokey LaFarge perform old time music at Newport.

As CALLmeKAT, Katrine Ottosen produces airy, synth-infused pop that pairs melancholy sentiment with sparse melodies. Watch the singer perform a hauntingly beautiful Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR Music offices.

With his horn-rimmed glasses and esoteric subject matter, Messersmith is no rock star. But he's a pop genius, with creative ambition to match his songs' considerable charm.

Bill Doss, singer of The Olivia Tremor Control and co-founder of the Elephant 6 Recording Company, died at age 43. In September 2011, NPR Music recorded this performance of the seminal psych-pop band.

With the help of Iranian singer-percussionist Aida Shahghasemi, Irglova crafts a lovely mix of the exotic and the familiar; of sweetness and longing. Watch the pair perform three songs in the NPR Music offices.

Compared to a club of dancing fans, a humid and sunny Austin afternoon isn't the ideal setting for a Debo Band performance. But it didn't take long to get caught up in the band's deep groove.

The drummer is an awfully busy player — as likely to improvise with jazz musicians as she is to back Brandi Carlile — but in recent years, she's carved out time to write music for her own group. A few tunes are dedicated to friends like her first teacher, a "sometimes great guy."

No strangers to natural beauty, the Icelanders were nevertheless stunned by the picturesque backdrop of the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington as they performed "Mountain Sound."