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Joe Grushecky has been delivering hard-driving, Pittsburgh-style rock' n' roll for three decades. On his latest CD, on which he's joined by songwriting partner Bruce Springsteen, the 50-something musician reflects on aging, family and other important things in life.

Veloso is consistently one of the most literate and beguiling forces in music. To see him in person is to see a sinuous, warm and joyous show in which his vocals are backed by a young and edgy band. His new album is titled Zii E Zie.

The rocker has been on the national music scene since he was 12. Now, at 42, Malin is playing with a band called The St. Marks Social and has recorded Love It to Life, a new album partly inspired by J.D. Salinger. Malin says his focus with the album was on making music that would translate well to live performance.

After Christopher Owens fled the cult he grew up in, he used his musical talent to launch a career. His band, Girls, was an arena-touring success. Now his first solo album, Lysandre, is a reflection on that experience.

Doe is probably still best known as co-founder of the punk-rock band X more than 30 years ago. Rock critic Ken Tucker says Doe's new solo album Keeper is less conflicted and more contemplative than his earlier works.

International wanderlust has informed the band's music since its 2006 debut, the Balkan-brass-inflected Gulag Orkestar. But leader Zach Condon says all that travel has come with a price.

The African singer says his new record 40 Degrees of Sunshine draws from Afrobeat, French pop and transcendentalist poetry. He says his tour of the U.S. is a bit of a homecoming for him.

Blending funk, hip-hop, and jazz sounds, the New Orleans-based band Galactic combines musical genres to create a new sound that they make their own. Critic Ken Tucker says heir newest album Ya-Ka-May is a true rhythmic pleasure.

The jazz pianist's latest album with his go-go backing band features a powerful song he wrote in tribute to the young Baltimore man who died in 2015 of injuries sustained in police custody.

With a new album coming on the way, Melbourne-based Alpine is building buzz in the U.S. — including this past week at the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.