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Kaki King and Vienna Teng first performed on Weekend Edition Sunday in 2004. Since then, their musical styles have evolved. Teng's forthcoming album intimately showcases her talent as a pianist and vocalist. King has moved past the acoustic instrumentals of her earlier discs with her latest album, coming in August.

The two pianos in Studio 4A didn't match, so five brand-new instruments had to be moved in for The 5 Browns, who play Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee and a five-piano arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story Suite.

This year's winner is a songwriter from Boston, Mass., whose winning song is an ode to feeling like she doesn't fit neatly into any one box.

A lifelong Dolly Parton fan born in Germany who used country music to understand American culture and survived hardship with poise and wit.

The London duo Johnny Boy releases a single that's as catchy as its title is long. With a sound rooted in '60s pop, the result is an underground rock masterpiece: Sly and timeless, it works on multiple levels.

On "Mrs. O," The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer sings with such melodramatic ferocity that niceties such as relation to pitch become irrelevant. She howls, she keens, and she throws her voice as hard as she can against anyone listening.

Recorded almost entirely in his home studio, Nino Moschello's debut album brings to mind the classic sound of Prince, Stevie Wonder and Sly & The Family Stone. Still, Moschello's distinct songwriting sensibility and soulfully gritty vocals help make his work unique and exciting.

Jazz great Gerald Wilson is still going strong at 87. He will perform this weekend in New York as part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center series. His most recent album, In My Time was released last year.

The British music press is hailing a new band, the Arctic Monkeys, as being as big as the Beatles — or at least as big as Oasis. The first-week release of the band's debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, sold over 118,000 copies.

Singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis sprinkles her new CD with references to God, but she says she didn't plan it that way. "I think being broken-hearted is not the only thing you want to sing about," she says.