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British singer-songwriter PJ Harvey watched hours of war footage before writing the songs for her eighth album, Let England Shake. Here, she describes how she translated what she saw into a mournful elegy about the bitter brutality of combat.

50 years ago - Elektra Records asked one of its talent scouts, guitarist Lenny Kaye, to create a double compilation album. That album "Nuggets" laid the groundwork for punk.

Way back before the Dixie Chicks' multiplatinum records -- and the arena tours -- there were two musical sisters growing up in Dallas. Martie Erwin on fiddle. Her younger sister Emily on banjo. They became the instrumental heart of the Dixie Chicks, but now they're playing in their own group as well, writing songs about motherhood and growing older.

Welch and Rawlings perform an in-studio concert featuring several songs from The Harrow and the Harvest, and talk about many of the lyrics they've written over the years.

Sloan and Barri were the songwriters behind "Eve of Destruction" and wrote hits for Herman's Hermits, The Mamas and the Papas and The Turtles. Critic Ed Ward examines their career and their many successful songs.

The streets of Cairo are busy, vibrant and noisy, but Ramadan brings another kind of flow: Religious beats from a small band.

Every week, you can catch some of the military's best chefs on The Grill Sergeants, the Pentagon Channel's cooking show. Brad Turner, the original "Grill Sergeant," is shooting new episodes focused on cuisine from different countries.

Grammy award winner Lila Downs is known to sing about love, loss, and her tricultural identity. But her latest album is her most personal yet.

Paul McCartney and producer Giles Martin used artificial intelligence to isolate John Lennon's vocals from an old demo to finally complete The Beatles' "last" song, "Now And Then."

Seattle has one of the country's few working movie theater organs. Jim Riggs plays the theater's Wurlitzer organ while silent movies are screened. Recently he performed during a screening of 1927's Wings, the only silent film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.