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The garage rocker performs stripped-down versions of songs from his new album, Manipulator,and tells NPR's Arun Rath why the new songs are less rough around the edges than some of his earlier work.

A New York City band returns to the Alamo City, and they have a big sound. Their music grows out of a specific place, the place Oscar Hernandez calls…

All Songs Considered shares the best performances and discoveries from this year's SXSW.

People in a crowd raised their voices in spontaneous song after a minute of silence to honor 22 concertgoers killed in a bombing on Monday.

Civil rights attorney and law professor JACK GREENBERG. He was just out of law school--a white Jewish man from the Bronx when he joined the fledgling NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). GREENBERG took over the helm of the LDF from his mentor Thurgood Marshall when Marshall was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeals. During GREENBERG'S tenure there, the LDF litigated some of the watershed cases of the civil rights struggle. He has just published a memoir of his 35 years at the LDF. It's called "Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution" (Basic Books).

Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials have been together for almost 25 years. The group has a new CD, Rattleshake. Ed talks about his music and the influence on his life of his uncle, the legendary Chicago bluesman J.B. Hutto.

On the CD Goulash!, Matt Haimovitz and his stringed instrument explore the music of Hungary, Romania and Transylvania. And he throws in a version of the rock band's "Kashmir" for good measure.

NPR Music's Song of the Day features a new track every weekday, with analysis of the music, links to each artist's Web sites and, of course, a chance to hear the song itself. Here, Song of the Day editor Stephen Thompson talks about recent selections by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Kurt Elling and more.

Trumpeter Steven Bernstein hunts for music that's been overlooked by classic jazz. He does his musical detective work in a back room he calls his "laboratory."

On this episode of the Lonesome Lounge Sessions, presented by Lone Star Beer, we were joined by Jason and Conrad of the legendary Alternative Rock outfit, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.