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From the punk band's powerful statement on loss comes a devastating and desperate video that meets characters from across bereavement, coping in churches, parking lots and bus stations.

Watch Brittany Howard and band lay into the heady soul ballad "Joe" at their headlining ACL performance, in advance of the show's 41st season premiere.

Saturday Night Live's Kyle Mooney stars in a surprising new video from the L.A.-based electro-pop trio Superhumanoids.

Hear a 1999 session with the bassist, who's since had a prolific career as a film and TV composer.

The songs Waxahatchee brought to the NPR Music offices aren't just stripped down for this Tiny Desk Concert. This is Katie Crutchfield as Waxahatchee, spare and exposed; this is what she does. This is intimate music, perfectly suited for an intimate setting.

The dozen members of this Portland, Ore. band crammed behind the Tiny Desk for a transcendent set. See them perform songs from their latest album, White Lighter —the best arranged and most compelling of Typhoon's nearly 10-year run.

In Myanmar, the Internet was shut down for the second straight day. When service was restored, there were even more military vehicles and troops on the streets.

The House voted Thursday to approve the bill to add and expand protections for LGBTQ people in the Civil Rights Act. Here's what it would do and why it's controversial.

In Mandalay, the country's second-largest city, police reportedly used live rounds during a demonstration on Saturday. On Friday, a young woman died after being shot during a protest last week,

Masses of protesters continue to gather in Myanmar's largest cities. Human rights groups say security forces are arresting democracy supporters in nighttime raids.

We talk about street protests in Myanmar, a successful mission to Mars, an independent media blackout in Poland, and more.

A United Nations human rights investigator points to "growing reports and photographic evidence" that security forces have used live ammunition against anti-junta protesters.

2013 marked three dozen years since the first incarnation of the group coalesced to resurrect a then-disappearing tradition — and infuse it both bebop and funk. Hear their danceable Newport set.

The Australian bluegrass band kicks off a high-energy set with "Make It Out West," which the group says was inspired by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

"The coup is obviously good for no one," says a human rights activist. "But for the Rohingya, the risk is heightened. This is the military regime responsible for the atrocities over many, many years."

Marsalis' philosophy is that the music should evolve and be challenging, should center on the melody and convey emotions. Hear him bring his long-running quartet to the Napa Valley Opera House.

The Louisiana band Gashcat makes fantastically catchy rock and pop songs. They returned to South by Southwest to give a thrilling, all-too-short performance. Watch them perform "The Morning Sun" live.

Watch Segall shred through "Emotional Mugger/Leopard Priestess," complete with creepy props.

The fervid and desperate "Map Change" is set to the strip clubs, abandoned churches and bingo halls that make up the metalcore band's New York hometown.

Days after a coup and the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other elected leaders, the country's military is moving to strangle free speech by shutting down access to social media sites.