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Vinyl records are once again the highest-grossing physical format for the music industry. The sales of vinyl exploded during the pandemic.

Singer/songwriter Neko Case possesses one of the most distinctive voices in modern music. Some writers are already predicting that her latest, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, will end up one of the year's best. In a recent interview, Neko Case sang, played her guitar and spoke about her music with music journalist Ashley Kahn.

Daniel Bernard Roumain doesn't fit the image of a classical musician. The Haitian-American violinist and composer, who sports a silver nose ring and dreadlocks, was inspired by jazz, rock and hip-hop. He dubs his style "dred violin."

To produce the iconic theme song, the late composer drew on a piece he had written for a proposed musical adaptation of V.S. Naipaul's "A House for Mr. Biswas."

The bass-guitar virtuoso, known for his prodigious soloing, recently released a new solo album, which he says addresses spirituality and mysticism. He speaks with Andrea Seabrook and demonstrates his technique with a few tunes.

On Apr. 4, the rockabilly legend behind "Hard Headed Woman" will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category. It's her hard head in the music business that's helped make her both a survivor and a pioneer.

With a husky whisper of a voice and a well-developed acoustic guitar style, Matt Ward might easily be pegged as a folk singer. But reviewer Meredith Ochs says his new album, Hold Time, points in many musical directions.

A nearly 10,000-piece Hawaiian music collection was donated to the state's archives by the family of Michael Scott. His will stipulated that it go someplace where it can be accessible to the public.

NPR's Melissa Block profiles FOUND magazine, an occasionally-published journal filled with found notes, photos and audio sent in from all over the nation. See some of the found items she discovered with other "finders" on a recent scavenging mission in Washington, D.C., and other ephemera from the pages of FOUND.

In his book Glock: The Rise of America's Gun, Paul Barrett traces how the sleek, high-capacity Austrian weapon found its way across the U.S. Also, TV writer David Milch talks about his new HBO series Luck. And rock historian Ed Ward looks back at The Smiths.