Watch the singer and violinist who stood out from 6,000-plus entries in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest. Gaelynn Lea performs two of these four songs with fellow Duluth, Minn., musician Alan Sparhawk of Low.

Portland-based M. Ward, along with Zooey Deschanel, is half of the nostalgia-pop duo She & Him. But Ward has been releasing acclaimed solo albums full of smart indie folk since the late '90s. His latest, called "More Rain," came out this week. He spins a dinner party soundtrack filled with great guitar licks.

The rock legend's new album with Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme is all sharp angles, hard muscles and decadent ecstasy.

On Tuesday night, Bill DeVille hosted a Time Machine all about 1990. Now take the quiz: Listen to the mashup of five songs from the show, and see if you can identify them.

As rapturous as the band's second album feels in its catchiest moments, it's all in service to songs that touch on the dueling bittersweet experiences of love.

Newly unearthed from early in Buckley's career, these 1993 demos find the late singer covering Bob Dylan, Sly Stone, The Smiths, Led Zeppelin and more.

The BBC called Garratt the 'Sound Of The Year' for 2016. He's come a long way from placing last in the Junior Eurovision song contest.

On Tuesday night, Bill DeVille hosted a Time Machine all about 1960. Now take the quiz: Listen to the mashup of five songs from the show, and see if you can identify them.

The band's comfortably styled songs sometimes tilt toward soul and often rock danceably on a new collection of songs called 'Side Pony'. Watch Lake Street Dive perform live at the NPR Music offices.

On her new album, Thao Nguyen and her band sound emboldened and unafraid to delve into some heavy, nervy stuff.