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Nicole Willis is a retro soul singer from Brooklyn. Her really tight band, the Soul Investigators, is from Finland. The group sounds like it's from Memphis – and it's one of Oliver Wang's favorites of the year so far.

Kinky Friedman used to perform offbeat country songs with his band, the Texas Jewboys. He later turned to writing mysteries. Now he wants to be governor of Texas. His slogan for the 2006 campaign: "How Hard Can It Be?" NPR's Ketzel Levine has a profile of the Texas funnyman.

The Ride is the latest album from Los Lobos, a band known for mixing folk, blues, rock and Latin rhythms. The group, which marks its 30th anniversary this year, was formed by classmates at an East Los Angeles school. The Ride, their 12th album, is on the Hollywood Records/Mammoth label. Critic David Greenberger has a review.

The pomp is more than circumstantial in performances of a genial Norwegian march. A drumline from the home country executes precision maneuvers while a conductor in Russia sports most excellent facial hair.

The San Antonio Symphony has some unusual partners in this weekend’s performances. Associate Conductor AkikoFujimoto says those partners are coming all…

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," and gave them tools to create a self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.

NPR's Stephen Thompson introduces us to the song "Neon Fists" by the Wisconsin-born, Brooklyn-based indie rock band Yellow Ostrich, off their forthcoming album "Cosmos."

The saxophonist, flautist and bandleader has been traveling to Cuba and performing its music for over 30 years.

Commentator David Greenberger says that with the passage of time and the release of the Beatles Anthology, future generations will piece together the career and music of the Beatles in a manner far removed from his own. He bought each Beatles LP as it was released and grew up with the imprint of that order overlaying the music itself. His daughter started with Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and thus her listening will forever be colored by that. We hear cuts from the Anthology albums as Greenberger talks about how the Beatles affected generations of listeners.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews some box sets you might want to consider (or not) for holiday gifts: The Complete Miles Davis Live at Montreux 1973-1991 (Warner Bros); The Classic Blue Note Recordings of Wayne Shorter; The Classic Columbia and Okeh Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang Sessions (Mosaic); Billy Eckstine: The Legendary Big Band (Savoy); The Definitive Sarah Vaughan (Verve/Blue Note).