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Chicago is one of the world's great music cities, but it's still surprising that a Latin Grammy-nominated Mexican folk group calls it home. Sones de Mexico is a group of musicians, all immigrants now living in Chicago, who play an enormous variety of Mexican folk styles.

Cut Copy's Dan Whitford says he isn't afraid to take inspiration directly from music he loves.

Taking on Duke Ellington's music is a daunting task for most composers, but for Graham Reynolds, it was a rewarding journey. On his new album, DUKE! Three Portraits of Ellington, jazz standards are perfomed by a big band, by a string quartet — and remixed by DJs.

A successful roots-rock musician, Butler has come a long way since his days as a busker on the streets of western Australia. He now fronts the award-winning, multiplatinum John Butler Trio. April Uprising is the band's first record in three years.

The band's new album, Renmin Park, was inspired by songwriter Michael Timmins' three-month stay in rural China. The record features an adventurous combination of the group's laid-back sound with traditional Chinese music, modern rock and Timmins' own field recordings.

Many of the innovations in today's popular Latin music are coming from younger musicians in rock, hip-hop and electronica. NPR's Felix Contreras discusses new releases from Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Novalima and CuCu Diamantes.

This week, the South by Southwest music festival brings more than 1,700 bands to Austin, Texas, for a weekend that's all about volume in more ways than one. Narrowing down the seemingly limitless options isn't easy, but here are three acts likely to win some new fans in the coming days.

The sounds of Palestine combine with jazz and Latin funk in the New York band Shusmo. Frontman Tareq Abboushi performs songs from Shusmo's new album and discusses the music that has influenced his career.

Jonny Greenwood began as an underachieving viola student at Oxford. After years of crafting the iconic guitar sound of Radiohead, he's found his way back to the orchestra as a film-score composer.

Collective Dreams makes music to communicate ideas and experiences that words cannot. Each member of our band lives life deeply, fully digesting the human experience; what people hear when they listen to our music are the things that we hold most dear, that we consider the most important. Each of us has a place in the Dream. We all have things we value, goals we want to attain, ideals that we live by. It is all of us together, all of our experiences, all of our ideas, that make life what it is. Through connecting with people outside ourselves, we are able to gain perspective. Through understanding life multiple perspectives, we become more aware of who we are and what our place is in the Dream.