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The third album from the British rock band Coldplay is called X&Y. For the past five years, Coldplay has been steadily climbing the ladder of pop music success. And with this record many in the music business believe the four soft-spoken Brits will earn the title "biggest band in the world."

Surprise, anger, parenting and Lizzo: That's one way to sum up the list of the most engaging stories in 2019. Other big topics included consumerism and climate change — and officials behaving badly.

One of Seattle's best loved and hardest-working bands is not a bunch of guys in flannel shirts wailing away on guitars. Maktub is a soul band, and it wants to get the rest of the country in the groove. The group just released its second CD and begins touring the East Coast and Europe next year. Marcie Sillman of member station KUOW has the story.

The Trumbull High School marching band in Trumbull, Connecticut, is an award-winning ensemble. Here & Now's Lynn Menegon went to the school to find out why.

We read and listen to several comments about our recent interviews and stories — from Congressman Mo Brooks to new music out of Australia.

Rock and roll is alive and well atop the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, as Twenty One Pilots' Breach hits No. 1.

Lost and Found Sound looks at the Green Street Mortuary Band from San Francisco's Chinatown. More than 300 Chinese families a year hire the band to give their loved ones a proper and musical send-off through the streets of Chinatown. For more than 50 years, this amateur band performed for its community at nearly every big event.

The jazz quartet Rudder is eager to amuse, but can also be as mournful and moving as a New Orleans funeral march. The band's latest release, Matorning, is a breath of sweet oxygen in an oft-stale instrumental scene.

WABE's Christopher Alston introduces us to the first two rappers in any military musical organization.