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Alternating between carefree indie-rock and melancholy synth-pop, the North Carolina husband-and-wife duo The Rosebuds writes some of the year's catchiest hooks and sing-along choruses. Hear an interview with the band, as well as an in-studio performance.

Grizzly Bear's music is an equally intimate and intense take on indie-folk, complete with ambitious arrangements, unique instrumentation and dreamy, almost choral doo-wop harmonies. Hear an interview with the Brooklyn band, as well as a performance on KEXP in Seattle.

If it's possible for a classically trained wind quintet to rock the house, Imani Winds blows the roof off. The five musicians came together 10 years ago with a common goal: To show young people of color there's a place for them in all of the arts. Imani Winds' Josephine Baker: A Life Of Le Jazz Hot! is a CD of original music inspired by Baker's life.

John Carter Cash, the only son of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, talks about his book and CD, Anchored in Love. The biography details her musical beginnings, and her painful yet enduring marriage to Johnny Cash.

Armed with a deep catalog of sweetly rustic, warmly melancholic folk-pop, the Ontario band Great Lake Swimmers has become something of a word-of-mouth sensation. Hear Great Lake Swimmers perform a concert from WXPN and World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

Willie Nelson is 74; Ray Price is 81; and Merle Haggard is a mere 70. The three of them have collaborated on a new double-CD, Last of the Breed. But despite the many years that the trio share between them, the music is pretty fresh.

Angelo Moore and Norwood Fisher created the legendary punk-ska group Fishbone when they were junior high school students in 1979. They talk to Farai Chideya about their new album, Still Stuck in Your Throat, as well as the meaning and impact of black rock.

Former Beatles front man Paul McCartney releases his new album, Memory Almost Full, Tuesday on the Hear Music label owned by coffee retail giant Starbucks rather than his longtime label EMI. It's just the latest measure of how much things have changed in the music business.

Not quite folk or alt-country, but more than just a rock group, Philadelphia's Hoots & Hellmouth crafts fiery, cathartic roots-rock that the band describes as "new music for old souls." Hear Hoots & Hellmouth perform a concert from WXPN and World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

The band's tripped-out music is as mysterious as its members' bizarre personas. Recording under strange monikers, they use old keyboards to craft a psychedelic electronic mixture.