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Staples turned down the lights for this one, then lit up the crowd.

The underground singer-songwriter has influenced many contemporary indie-folk and rock acts. Hear four songs from Paleface, recorded live at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, W.Va.

The Oklahoma singer preaches "Truck Stop Gospel" live at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville's "Mother Church of Country Music."

Page Hamilton and his crew were a huge deal in the early 1990s, but his more recent material has gone, for lack of a better term, unsung. Watch him perform "Blacktop" live in KEXP's studios.

Like the song title implies, "Magma" is slow moving, thick with grooves and taking down everything in its path.

Sometimes it's necessary to get back to basics. In the case of Los Hacheros, that means returning to the deep groove of Afro-Caribbean music that provides the source material for modern salsa.

The Colombian band channels an unlikely inspiration: 1920s-era, guitar-driven jazz from the U.S. Watch Monsieur Periné perform three songs in the NPR Music offices.

The Swedish indie-pop star stopped by opbmusic.org in Portland to perform songs from I Know What Love Isn't in the studio. Watch Lekman perform the album's darkly uplifting title song.

The folk-country band's lead singer has worked with Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Thile. Watch her perform "Red & White & Blue & Gold," for Folk Alley.

The Denver band's mysteriously swirling music isn't jazz or rock, classical or electronica. Instead, it's something singular, new and adventurous.

Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell's vibrant vocal harmonies are set against an electronic backdrop that feels spacious and refreshing.

Wolf Alice's music can be noisy and primal, but at the Tiny Desk it showed a different side, as it performed three songs from 2015's My Love Is Cool.

David Steinberg was big on the stand-up circuit back in the 1960s and '70s; he appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson more than a hundred times. Now he's host of TV Land's Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg, on which he interviews other comedians. His new memoir is called The Book of David.

A fellow at Oil Change International and at the Institute for Policy Studies, she argues that the oil industry's grip on policy and government has never been stronger. She documents her concerns — and argues for remedies — in a new book.

The future of our culture — and most business — lies in niches, according to author Chris Anderson. His new book, The Long Tail, references a statistical trend to suggest that the market for items that are not "hits" will always be larger than that for the most popular items.

The musician and magazine publisher talks to Alt.Latino about guitar players and issues of representation on this week's show.

Led by Alasdair MacLain's breathy vocals and smart lyrics, the London band The Clientele mixes psychedelic melodies and driving guitars into appealing indie-pop — a blend that's caught on quickly with American listeners. Hear an interview and in-studio performance by the band.

Josh Ritter's new release, The Animal Years, is the kind of folk album that should connect with a much larger audience, while also giving his faithful following something to celebrate.

Since my weigh-in last week, I've lost three pounds. I've biked, walked and done sit-ups. But yoga, a 2,000-year-old mind-body discipline of poses and breathing, has me whupped.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in help for AIDS are now pouring into Nigeria and other developing countries. In Nigeria, the man in charge of these funds is Dr. Abdulsalim Nasidi. He must navigate a mine field of restrictions to set up new health systems where none exist.