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Frontman Kevin Barnes has been working on quiet material, and decided to try it out in the intimate confines of the NPR Music offices. The result is a rarely heard side of a band for whom theatricality has long been a means of expression rather than an end unto itself.

The minute its members were ensconced in our office, So Percussion started borrowing items to add to its set, from an amplified cactus and bells to a mug filled with spare change and an envelope.

The British synth-pop duo recently released its second album, Sounds From Nowheresville. Hear the band perform songs from the record during a live webcast from WXPN's World Cafe Live.

Lost in the Trees finds beauty in the darkest places, mixing breathtaking string arrangements with acoustic guitars to tell tragic stories of depression, suicide and family strife.

Charles Lloyd is celebrating his 75th birthday with a new album, Hagar's Song, and concert in the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Jens Lekman is a singer-songwriter whose banter falls somewhere between the effortless delivery of a seasoned comic and the nervous rambling of an indie-rock frontman. Lekman shows off his humor and charm in this intimate set at the NPR Music offices.

Listen to the band's performance at Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club.

The young guitarist and composer called up top sidemen Eric Harland (drums) and Larry Grenadier (bass) for a New Year's Eve party at his alma mater. Saxophonist Dan Blake also stopped by.

Hear a new project, featuring several top-notch Irish folk-music players, live in concert.

The L.A. soul revivalist brings his love of everything analog to a studio session at KEXP. The 26-year-old is in fine form throughout, as he showcases a musical intellect far beyond his years.

On stage, backed by a full band and ace utility player Heather Broderick, Van Etten alternately exudes quiet confidence, sweet shyness and bold aggression, depending on a given song or moment.

Wilson is always a colorful drummer — a timekeeper who exploits all the timbres a snare drum can give him. He's also a colorful personality, a bandleader who wears his goofy joy on his sleeve.

Hear the quartet reconstitute jazz traditions in their set from Newport.

Watch what happens when the celebrated cabaret artist sings Gershwin with a string quartet.

Listen to the Portland rock ensemble play an unpredictable set for Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Hear the alto saxophonist and the latest incarnation of his virtuosic band play at Newport.

Watch the miraculous hands (and feet) of the Grammy-winning organist in an all-Bach performance.

Hear the jazz trombonist and singer embrace future-funk and rock backbeats in a set from Newport.

Under a barrage of gnarled riffs, the Baton Rouge sludge-metal band plays a bruisingly heavy set.

Jason Lindner refracts the sounds of New York City, from bebop to way beyond. His electro-groove trio, heavy on synths, bent bass notes and backbeats, slings a cosmopolitan take on the jam session.