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Not everyone ends up at a parade on purpose. Singer Jeff Tweedy of the band Wilco found himself trapped by one years ago in his hometown of Belleville, Ill. That moment inspired the title track song of Wilco's new album, Sky Blue Sky. Tweedy shares this memory and reflects on how it changed him.

Summer has arrived, the sun is shining (at least, it's supposed to be) and music journalist/armchair philosophizer Christian Bordal ruminates on the appropriate sounds for the season.

Handsome Furs, a duo composed of Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner and his fiancee Alexei Perry, specializes in sparse, repetitive pop melodies coupled with baffling, poetic words. "Hearts of Iron" becomes more mysterious as it progresses over an even, hymn-like tune.

Saxophone player Benny Golson played with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey, and wrote music for the TV shows M*A*S*H and Mission Impossible.

The Beatles', Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released June 1, 1967, in Britain, and on June 2 in the United States. The album became a phenomenon, and its sound was perfect for the then-new frequencies of FM.

David Karsten Daniels draws from "the fertile environment" of the South. A region he says has "produced some of the greatest pain, conflict and redemption of the American experience."

The Staples Singers used to perform at Civil Rights rallies, but never recorded those songs. Mavis Staples has finally put much of that music on her new album, We'll Never Turn Back.

Two years before Woodstock, a music festival in Monterey, Calif., brought together a diverse group of big-name acts including the Mamas and the Papas and Jefferson Airplane as well as some then-unknown performers, notably Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.

On "Rocket," Working for a Nuclear Free City attempts to solve some of life's most vexing problems. But as the answers get more outrageous, and the lessons get harder to come by, the music's momentum starts to take over.

Eric Woodruff's Prosser ditches the "spacerock" of former band, Delay, in favor of a more indie-pop/alt-country sound. Woodruff plays all instruments except for cello, provided by his friend Dylan Rieck.