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The Pilgrim Baptist Church's destruction by fire last week was a tragic loss to worshipers in Chicago's South Side. But the blaze also gutted a historic landmark that gave birth to gospel music.

MiniKiss is a cover band devoted to the face-painting rock music group, entirely comprised of "little people." Madeleine Brand talks with Joey Fatale, founder of MiniKiss, about how the band now faces some competition from other bands, and what life is like as the miniature Gene Simmons.

Vancouver's New Pornographers is a band made up of musicians who have their own projects in the works on the side, but the band still manages to put out catchy and witty material.

Guitarist David Russell visits Studio 4A. He offers tips on memorizing music and plays three pieces with a Latin influence: "Alms for the Love of God" by Augustín Barrios, the "Spanish Dance No. 5" by Granados, and "If She Asks" by Dilermando Reis.

Singer-songwriter Even Johansen's work as Magnet is a blend of the traditional and the modern, mixing a folk sound with the more surreal electronica.

French singer Camille Dalmais has been compared to Bjork, Fiona Apple and Bobby McFerrin. The 27-year-old Parisian talks about her new album, Le Fil.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are marking their 30th year in the business with a U.S. tour, and Petty has a new solo album, Highway Companion.

Once described as "the only band to ever open for both The Grateful Dead and the Ramones," Cracker blends country, punk, psychedelia, folk and roots-rock to create a version of Americana that's as intoxicating as it is original.

It was a decade that gave us unforgettable pop, metal and more. Take a wild ride through the end of a century in our 30-song playlist.

During a hiatus from The Frames, Glen Hansard recorded The Swell Season with Czech singer Marketa Irglova, and the result aches and swoons behind lovely arrangements. A longtime master of sublimely melodramatic sad-bastard music, Hansard finds words of hard-won hope and comfort on "Falling Slowly."