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Children of the Light is two-thirds of the iconic Wayne Shorter Quartet. On their new self-titled album, Michelle Mercer says the trio's lively group improv is like a family dinner where everyone's talking at once yet somehow everyone's being heard.

The guitarist and singer channeled his passion for politics and science fiction to become a prolific songwriter. Kantner helped define the San Francisco sound in the 1960s.

Actress Zooey Deschanel has made a move from the big screen to the indie-rock stage, recently co-founding the group She and Him. Deschanel joins Fresh Air to discuss her music and her band's new album, Volume One.

Part Tom Waits, part Italian philosopher, singer-songwriter Vinicio Capossela thinks of himself as an "enchanter." His stage shows are theatrical journeys into mythology, outsider ideologies and Americana.

Where the band's last album used prickly electronics and cavernous arrangements to hold humanity at arm's length, Deep In The Iris turns those elements into lulling hymns to cleansing and redemption.

Inspired by a complex relationship in his past, frontman Ruban Nielson makes his sweetest, catchiest, most impeccably crafted music yet.

On the singer's new album, a departure from the rootsy sounds of her albums with the Nocturnals, pop-rock music gets a real kick in its cherry-red pants.

The dB's, led by singer-songwriter-guitarists Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey, hasn't made an album with the original line-up in 30 years. Rock critic Ken Tucker says the band's new album, Falling Off the Sky, sweeps aside decades and nostalgia to achieve a vital sound for today.

This week's episode of Alt.Latino features a biting new track by the Puerto Rican rap duo. In "Multi_Viral," the band intersperses its own commentary on the media with a spoken-word passage by the controversial founder of WikiLeaks.

Step inside NPR Music's offices with this virtual reality video for a front row seat at Wilco's Tiny Desk concert.