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The percussionist gathered musicians featured on his new album, Bamako By Bus, for a studio session with WBGO's The Checkout. Listen to the entire set and watch a slideshow of photos from the session.

Will Oldham stops by the KEXP studios in Seattle to perform old and new songs from his Bonnie 'Prince' Billy catalog. Watch the entire half-hour live set.

Relive the 2013 festival, with sets by Phosphorescent, Shovels & Rope, The Lone Bellow and more.

Yeasayer is back with a trippy third album,Fragrant World, which pushes the trio back into a more experimental zone. At WFUV, the band performs the synth-driven and beat-heavy "Blue Paper."

Hear a stunning concert from the fantastically hazy, ambient pop genius M83, recorded live from the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.

With his brilliant debut, Affirmed, Salsburg is likely to become one of those names we all associate with American folk guitar. Here, he showcases his intricate and melodic fingerpicking in two instrumental songs inspired by the stories of racehorses from the Kentucky Derby.

Marling's songs unfold quietly, with lyrical depth that rewards repeated listening and a clear alto voice that gives her songs gravity. Watch her perform "Sophia" in a studio session from opbmusic.

Chuck Daellenbach and his fresh-faced players, each with red-striped sneakers and matching outfits, strolled into the NPR Music offices, took their places behind Bob Boilen's desk and started blowing as if they'd played this peculiar gig a hundred times.

The Houston Symphony brings a biting all-Shostakovich program to Carnegie Hall for the Spring for Music festival — including the very rarely heard satirical cantata The Anti-Formalist Rayok.

Hear the American icon and storyteller perform a playful collection of tunes from his new album, Heroes.

In his native Puerto Rico, a jazz drummer found that his friends could all get down to Fela Kuti. So in New York, Cole assembled an 11-piece band to locate the African heart of Caribbean party music.

Portland's Alialujah Choir lives by two rules: Have fun and harmonize. Watch this new trio perform songs at Type Foundry studios for opbmusic.org.

The improvisational music of father and son Pedro Soler and Gaspar Claus functions as a beautiful conversation. Soler plays a delicate flamenco guitar, while Claus turns the cello into an exquisitely expressive voice. The two bring that spirit to their intimate performance in the NPR Music offices.

The guitarist called his last album Hearts Wide Open, a mission statement built around his search for the core in modern jazz. Along the way, he wrote a few tunes for a band of top New York players.

The guitarist has played in just about every conceivable setting. For this live concert, his trio takes on Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, dirty blues, punk energy and fully liberated improvisation.

Watch a "flash choir" descend upon Times Square to sing a world premiere of music by Philip Glass, commissioned by NPR Music in honor of the composer's 75th birthday.

The reggae legend performs music from his new album, Rebirth, for Morning Becomes Eclectic at KCRW. Watch Cliff run through "One More" here, and check out his entire session at KCRW.com.

When we look back on 2012, Michael Kiwanuka might well emerge as the year's most distinctive new voice. Watch the British singer perform "Tell Me a Tale" at The Current's studios in the Twin Cities.

One of the loudest performances ever captured in the NPR Music offices, Dirty Three's set alternately seethes and rages in a flurry of high kicks, prolific hairiness and dramatic yelling.

Singer Carla Morrison has already enchanted audiences in her native Mexico with her timeless voice and unabashedly lovelorn lyrics. She joins us for a performance at The High Line in New York City.