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By combining intelligent lyrics and haunting melodies, Midlake continues to develop its vision of beautiful neo-Americana music. The band's new sophomore album, The Trials of Van Occupanther, finds Midlake polishing its acoustic, increasingly piano-driven '70s folk-rock sound.

For Till The Sun Turns Black, Ray LaMontagne opted to tread new stylistic ground, unveiling a unique song-cycle loosely based on the importance of self-expression, interpersonal communication and other qualities he finds lacking in modern culture.

Gomez's infectious blend of bluesy wails and pop-rock harmonies has won the band critical acclaim and commercial success, making it one of the biggest and best U.K. bands to emerge in recent years. Winner of the 1998 Mercury Music Prize for Best Album, the group has gone on to get tighter and more confident.

Sleepy Brown has produced and written songs for some of music's hottest artists, including Outkast, TLC and Brandy. You can hear his vocals on Outkast's "I Like the Way You Move" and "So Fresh and So Clean." Farai Chideya talks with Brown about his versatile music career and his first solo album Mr. Brown.

Autocratic conductor Leopold Stokowski scolded the audience at a concert in New York in 1945. We'll tell you the tale and play a couple of Stokowski's marvelous Bach transcriptions from the Sanibel Island Music Festival in Florida.

In the last six months, singer-songwriter Ryan Adams hasn't released a new record. This may not seem remarkable, but last year Adams put out three CDs in the space of seven months. He has recently been in New York, preparing his next album.

Forty years ago, four wacky moptops called The Monkees bounced onto the nation's TV screens and into the hearts of generations of teenage girls. The band made a brief comeback in the late 80s when reruns of their TV show popped up on MTV. That's when producer Petra Mayer became a lifelong Monkee-maniac.

By the time Dr. Octagon's science-fiction caper in miniature ends, countless styles and funk attitudes have been blurred together, subsumed into the rare bit of contemporary hip-hop that fully commits to celebrating genuine weirdness.

Texas singer-songwriter Guy Clark has gained status as a folk-music icon, influencing several generations of musicians with beautifully fashioned songs that tell stories from his life.

Muddy Waters' 1968 blues-rock hybrid Electric Mud works as an intermittently spirited experiment, a loosely structured attempt at moving an icon beyond the traditional. The legend sounds like a lost soul from the Delta who's wandered into the exaggerated druggy debauchery of a hippie movie.