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The singer, songwriter and violinist had a prolific year in 2012, releasing both Break It Yourself (one of All Songs Considered listeners' favorite albums of 2012) and Hands of Glory.

On the occasion of National Poetry Month, Big Think spoke to Robert Pinsky, the 39th Poet Laureate of the United States, about the value of using poetic language in everyday life. Pinsky founded The Favorite Poem Project in 1997.

Band's fourth album expected this summer

From the L.A. quartet's forthcoming rarities platter, 'RKives,' due April 2 on Little Record Company

From Taylor-Ruth's Tumblr, a page from her fifth grade diary. She was unquestionably the most punk fifth grader she knew, and possibly the most punk fifth grader in history.

Of the rushing river of records heading toward us, there are two I’d like to mention, one imminent and one on the horizon: “Love Has Come for You,” by Edie Brickell and Steve Martin, which arrives in April, and “We the Common,” by Thao & the Get...

Music video already in the can for self-titled April 9 LP

Professionally shot & recorded video (not an audience recording) 1994-10-02 Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA (San Francisco Bay area). Mazzy Star's ...

How did you spend your holidays? Visited family? That's nice. Cooked a ham? Cool. Tried out your new iPad Mini? Fascinating. Recorded an original Christmas

In February 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were guests hosts on the Mike Douglas Show. Here is John and Yoko with Chuck Berry performing "Memphis, Tennessee."

With his big, weary voice, Scott Hutchison has a remarkable gift for tugging at heartstrings. Watch him and his band perform a stripped-down acoustic version of "The Woodpile," a single from Frightened Rabbit's new album, Pedestrian Verses.

It's incredibly difficult to figure out how stuff like this even happens, but the unlikely trio of Stephen King, John Mellencamp, and T-Bone Burnett have mobbed

Talk about the ultimate space jam. The song is called "I.S.S.

Getty Images Tickets are now on sale for the Sound City Players show at Hammerstein Ballroom—the supergroup put together by Dave Grohl to promote his new documentary, Sound City. The film is a journey through time and into the legendary L.A.

What year is it today? We've got David Bowie, Tom Waits, and Keith Richards all piping up with new tunes. Now, Jimi Hendrix is back from the dead with a song

A live recording of Pearl Jam playing 'In the Moonlight' with Josh Homme has appeared online. The frontman of Queens of the Stone Age played on the song with

The pianist and the drummer were born two years and one day apart. Nearly a century later, we consider both of them to be jazz legends, in part because their working relationship lasted more than two decades.

Oyster farms. Submerged subway cars. What are the best fixes to fight another Sandy?