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There's a mix of new and old, familiar and not so much so on this week's Blues show which airs on Saturday, May 9th at 11pm. The show begins with…

Marion Hodges of KCRW shares a playlist including "The Schuyler Sisters" off the soundtrack for the Broadway production of "Hamilton."

Sisters Este, Danielle and Alana discuss mining personal fears and pain to write their third album, which they've given the clever acronym WIMPIII.

The leader of the Senegalese trio Daara J says hip-hop was a familiar sound in the group's native country long before it became popular in America.

Cantinero is the musical pen name of Chris Hicken, a British singer-songwriter with a debut CD, Championship Boxing. Recorded in a spare bedroom in his New York apartment, the songs are full of the sounds of city living.

Trombone Shorty's new album "Lifted" comes on the heels of the artist's first Grammy.

Zap Mama's CD Ancestry in Progress charts a path from African a capella to a global vision of soul. Leader Marie Daulne says her new songs weave vocal styles from Africa and the East with technologies and music of the West. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne.

Tom Verlaine shook up the music world with his punk-rock group Television in the mid-1970s. Can he do it again? He's giving it a shot with two new CDs — one an instrumental work featuring his influential guitar style — and a world tour.

It had to be on Kai Neukerman's wish list to play with Pearl Jam. Neukerman left the Oakland arena saying it felt surreal, but also with a bit of immortality.

Aqualung created a stir in Britain with a pop song that first drew attention as the background for a car advertisement. Now Matt Hales' piano-driven pop act is quietly mounting a U.S. invasion with a new CD, Strange and Beautiful.