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The 14-piece Washington, D.C.-based afrobeat orchestra blends rhythms from all across the African continent, and then some. And as their name indicates, the band might just be crazy enough to pull it off.

Mark Lanegan was a founding member of the grunge-era Seattle band Screaming Trees and later part of Queens of the Stone Age. He died Tuesday of unspecified causes at his home in Ireland.

Authorities say the vocalist for the Grammy-nominated heavy-metal band As I Lay Dying tried to hire an undercover detective to kill his estranged wife.

Bummer's Eve is the latest in a series of lo-fi, noisy punk bands that have descended upon the Queen City. However, what sets this band apart - and above…

This week you'll hear hometown favorite Blue Wisp Big Band who's found a new home at Japp's on Main Street in Over the Rhine on Wednesday evenings. I hear…

Russia's No. 2 leader calls for band members sentenced last month to be released after three of them spent five months in jail awaiting trial.

Director John Carney's new film Once features Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova as two musicians who tell their story in song. Hansard is the lead singer of the Irish band The Frames. Irglova was only 17 when the movie was made — and neither of them are professional actors.

Listeners of The Hold Steady's classic rock sounds may also want to have on hand some resources - namely a Bible and a background in pop culture - in order to decode the lyrics.

John Doe is the founder and bass player for X, the 1980s punk-rock band. He's also an actor, appearing on such TV shows as Carnivale and Roswell. He kicks off our annual summer "what are you reading" feature with an eclectic list ranging from the L.A.-noirish John Fante to Louise Erdrich and Natsuo Kirino.

His former band Wall of Voodoo broke up in 1983, but Stan Ridgway is still spinning stories of intriguing, eccentric characters in song. He talks to NPR's Liane Hansen about his new CD.