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This week on Start Hear:Nerdist: Basically just Chris Hardwick talking about stuff and things with his nerdy friends and usually someone more famous than…

Updated March 30 at 1:38 p.m.The city of Cincinnati honored local music legend Katie Laur Wednesday, calling her a pioneer for her role as a woman…

Marc Cohn will join the Blind Boys of Alabama who'll be performing on stage the evening of June 19th beginning at 7pm at the Rose Music Center at the…

Daniel talks with photographer Thomas Roma who took pictures at 52 African-American Christian churches in Brooklyn - many of them storefront churches. The photographs depict congregants and pastors during sunday morning worship services. Some of these photographs are in the book, "Come Sunday:Photographs by Thomas Roma" (published by The Museum of Modern Art). The photographs are currently on dispay at The Museum of Modern Art in New York through June 18th, 1996. Included in this interview is music from two churches: Reverend Jerry Burns and the Open Door Singers (of the Open Door Outreach Ministry/Brooklyn) and The Mo Gbeke Mi Le O Choir Band (of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Olutunu/Brooklyn).

Singer-songwriter Neil Young discusses his latest album, Prairie Wind. It was recorded as Young was being treated for a brain aneurysm earlier this year.

Whether executing the new visions of his peers or fielding calls from veterans, few young jazz guitarists are as highly tipped. Matthew Stevens leads a band in songs from his forthcoming debut album.

Texas singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore brings together country, folk, blues and rock in his 2005 album Come On Back. The album is a touching tribute to the artist's father, who died of ALS in 2000.

The multi-talented cellist leads her string ensemble in concert from the African-American neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, featuring her two children on voice and drums.

Conor Oberst, lead singer of Bright Eyes, captured public attention as a protest singer with artistic ambitions. At 27, he seems to have mellowed. "Make a Plan to Love Me" is a gentle throwback to the '60s.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with husband and wife Cruz and Robinella Contreras, founders of the bluegrass quintet Robinella & the CCstringband. They got their start playing a Knoxville brew pub. Now the group has a major label record deal and a rapidly growing fan base.