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NOMO has a tiny name, but the group makes a big impression when it drives into town. NOMO is eight musicians from Ann Arbor, Mich., with dozens of instruments and just one van. On Ghost Rock, the octet proves that its jazz- and funk-inspired instrumental music is much more than a Fela Kuti tribute.

Named for the Cincinnati neighborhood where the band used to live, Over the Rhine is husband and wife Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist. For more than 20 years, the two have written lyrics that they hope connect on a universal level.

Spending her early career in the British punk band X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene is no stranger to making musical statements of principle on her own idiosyncratic terms. Her new album is Generation Indigo.

By the mid-1990s, the art-rock band Throwing Muses had found more than just critical success. But co-founding member Kristin Hersh almost didn't make it there.

For nearly three decades, Kim Wilson has been the voice and soul of the Texas band The Fabulous Thunderbirds. He's also an accomplished solo recording artist, and in the minds of many people, the greatest harmonica player performing today. His new CD is entitled Lookin' for Trouble. Wilson recently joined NPR's Scott Simon for a chat about his craft.

Atlanticwriter Barton Gellman says the 2020 election could trigger a constitutional crisis. Ken Tucker reviews Artemis' self-titled album. Kirsten Johnson confronts her dad's mortality in a new film.

The famous cosmologist will appear on the track "Talkin' Hawkin' " on the upcoming album The Endless River, set for release next month. It's his second inclusion on one of the band's songs.

A band is set to perform in the Alamo City this weekend, but don't expect to break out in dance. They're not a dance band. "This is maybe our…

The Toronto band plays a mix of old-school calypso, ska and West Indian styles. But its new album, Jumbie in the Jukebox, doesn't so much revive classic genres as reinvent them for a new time.

The My Morning Jacket singer seeks authenticity in a world of artifice on his first solo album, Regions of Light and Sound of God.