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Founder of the band Wilco, Jeff Tweedy. He also sings, writes songs, plays guitar and banjo. Wilco began as an alternative country band, but has recently left that sound behind. Their new recording is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The documentary film I Am Trying to Break Your Heart follows the band thru the troubled recording of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. This interview first aired on May 2, 2002.

If you're searching for music off the beaten path, here's the list for you. NPR Music's Tiny Desk editor and resident Viking scours the corners of the music world to find his favorite records of 2025.

The band's latest archival release — Dave's Picks, Volume 49 — made the list. That gave the Grateful Dead its 59th Top 40 album – one more than both Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.

Fresh Air's critic looks back on a fruitful year and lists his favorite music releases of 2011.

If you're a fan of the band Chicago – like me – these guys will make you smile. Cincinnati has a new Chicago tribute band called the Cincinnati Transit…

Members of the classic rock band Styx visited NASA mission control for New Horizon, the space probe that discovered Pluto's smallest moon, Styx.

The third album from the British rock band Coldplay is called X&Y. For the past five years, Coldplay has been steadily climbing the ladder of pop music success. And with this record many in the music business believe the four soft-spoken Brits will earn the title "biggest band in the world."

One of Seattle's best loved and hardest-working bands is not a bunch of guys in flannel shirts wailing away on guitars. Maktub is a soul band, and it wants to get the rest of the country in the groove. The group just released its second CD and begins touring the East Coast and Europe next year. Marcie Sillman of member station KUOW has the story.

Lee Hay shares the piece Mean Ol’ Frisco from the new Ricky Nye & the Paris Blues Band CD entitled Jump Steady.

Carmon DeLeone, longtime music director of the Cincinnati Ballet, is also an exceptional jazz drummer, and he and his band, Carmon DeLeone and the New…