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Aimee Mann and Ted Leo's latest video as The Both, for the song "Volunteers Of America," is a touching celebration of life and love.

A group with cinematic sweep hardwired into its sound, Band of Horses is tailor-made for outdoor performances. The group performed at the Newport Folk Festival on Friday, July 25.

The 20-year-old Norwegian synth-pop artist grieves and soars in her latest work.

Gallant, one of our favorite new singers, takes a backseat (literally) to Aiko in this mysterious video.

Hear the revered blues musician play songs from his solo debut on the 900th episode of Mountain Stage.

The beloved Britpop veteran stops by the Tiny Desk with songs from his new album, Saturns Pattern — and one from his best-known record, Stanley Road.

Watch the soul singer introduce and then perform a new song frankly depicting her own past infidelity.

"Beginning Of Winter" is built around delay guitar loop that feels like it's always been and always will be.

Multimedia artist Shannon Collis directs a satisfyingly soothing video for the drone duo's song "Ruminants," in the process truly visualizing its quiet, ever-shifting layers of sound.

Formed as a creative outlet for singer Zach Williams as his wife recovered from an accident that nearly paralyzed her, The Lone Bellow performs with a sense of necessity.

From spiky rock to country and folk-tinged pop, Jenny Lewis remains one of the smartest songwriters in the business. She performed at the 2014 Newport Folk Festival on Friday, July 25.

The gospel choir, featuring some of the best and brightest from Boston's talent-rich Berklee College of Music, opens the proceedings on Sunday, July 27 at the 2014 Newport Folk Festival.

Surrounded by unfinished and leftover Mardi Gras floats, Boykins pulls back the layers of his song "4 U 2 B Free," matching his performance to the exposed, vulnerable characters surrounding him.

Though it first specialized in rowdy rock 'n' roll, the brother-band has spent the last few years exploring the more reflective side of its barroom-friendly, accordion-enhanced sound.

With a big, ragged voice and a bigger personality, Slim has little trouble grabbing a crowd's attention with raucous songs from his newest album. Hear his set from the 2013 Newport Folk Festival.

Standing amid hundred-year-old rubble, the Vermont trio fit an awful lot of moony harmonies into this all-too-brief performance of "Sewee Sewee."

The New Orleans band exists as a vehicle for the powerhouse songs of Alynda Lee Segarra, whose gigantic voice conveys the grit of bluesy soul while still fitting within rootsy folk and country.

The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle spent the 1990s recording songs solo on low-fidelity equipment like boom boxes. He now leads a full, versatile band, and his songwriting retains capacity to stun.

Growing up singing alongside 14 siblings in rural Arkansas, the 52-year-old singer-songwriter emerges from another era.

The roots-folk group featuring Decemberists' members covers Led Zeppelin. Hear the band perform as part of the 2013 Newport Folk Festival.