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The Polaris Music Prize winner kicks off our week-long Tiny Desk celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.

What happens when you take one of the greatest hitmakers of all time, pop's current It Girl and an Australian dance music trio? You get a roller rink-ready jam.

"People tried to call him just a jazz cat, but he was beyond that." Trujillo speaks with Michel Martin about a new documentary on the man sometimes called the Hendrix of the bass.

The Memphis singer-songwriter reworks songs from her debut album, Dawn, from a room inside Electric Lady Studios

On his new album, Mozart & Contemporaries, the deep-thinking pianist from Iceland aims to debunk the image of Amadeus as the giggling savant by contrasting his music with that of his peers.

Emmylou Harris, queen of Nashville, and the Nash Ramblers, an all-star, bluegrass-leaning acoustic band, perform a breakneck live version of the Junior Parker and Elvis classic "Mystery Train."

With bold harmonies, pointillist texture and winding rhythms, Ólafsson's composition offers — in less than two minutes — a distinctly modern sound that looks toward the future.

Lincoln started out as a nightclub singer, but began performing in a style influenced by the civil rights movement after she met drummer/bebop pioneer Max Roach. Originally broadcast in 1986 and 1987.

"Video Games" is a flirtatious anthem that tempts us to leave the virtual and enter reality for a steamy encounter.

As part of NPR's 50th anniversary, we're looking back at other cultural milestones of 1971. That year The Doors released their final album L.A. Woman — and the band's lead singer Jim Morrison died.