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The annual DevouGrass Music & Arts Festival is coming to Devou Park in Covington, Kentucky, on Saturday, october 7th from noon to dusk. The free festival…

Happening on Friday, October 25 at The Redmoor in Mt. Lookout is You Know You're Right, a multi-artist tribute show to the influential grunge rock band…

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Natural Ingredients"(Grand Royal). It''s the first full-length collection by Lucious Jackson, a four-woman band from lower Manhattan, whose drummer was the original drummer for the Beastie Boys.

The members of the band Lake Street Dive have been making music together for nearly 10 years — but only recently have experienced commercial success.

David Greenberger reviews the new CD from The Glands, a band from Athens, Georgia. You could classify them as indie-rock, but they like to avoid adhering to any stylistic direction, and are all over the map musically. Some songs sound like LA pop songs from the mid-60s, others are atmospheric psychedelia, and others still have a modern rock sound. (4:00) The Glands' new self-titled CD is on the Capricorn Records label.

Producer Taki Telonidis and Reporter Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center tell the story of the repatriation of a lock of hair from Chief Big Foot, the leader of the Sioux band that was massacred soldiers of then U.S. Cavalry at Wounded Knee in 1880. Chief Big Foot's lock of hair was taken by a white trader and given to the Massachusetts Historical Society where it remained until this summer when it was retuned to land of Chief Big Foot's people.

NPR's Athena Desai reports on up-and-comers OK Go, who are charging out of the Chicago scene and touring the country with their unique brand of power pop-rock. Radio host Ira Glass says the group is "like a boy band that got seduced by Queen and wound up in college instead of Orlando." They recall the melodic greats of the '70s and '80s, and provoke thoughts about the state of rock and roll today.

Fresh Air Producer AMY SALIT interviews singer ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO. He''s formerly with the band True Believers. ESCOVEDO is esteemed for his songwriting ability and described as "poet of the ordinary event." His new solo release is "With These Hands," (Ryk

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Sleeps with Angels," the latest collaboration between Neil Young and the band Crazy Horse.

Singer/songwriter ELVIS COSTELLO. Previously with the band The Attractions, he later went solo. Since then he has performed and recorded with The Brodsky Quartet and jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. He's written about 300 songs. His new release is "All This Useless Beauty" (Warner Bros) which he recorded with The Attractions. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE