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The video-sharing Web site YouTube.com has changed the way some people see the Internet. But it's also changing how people hear vintage artists, from the late Wilson Pickett to the up-and-coming Arctic Monkeys.

Now 90, the American composer talks about his reputation and his love of Broadway musicals.

Jean Sibelius took a tragic story and made glorious music out of it. His incidental music to the play King Kristian II comes to us from Berwald Hall in Stockholm, where Johannes Gustavsson conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony.

The Drive-By Truckers have been making bold, often epic southern rock since they first formed in Athens, Ga., a decade ago. Now on tour for their seventh album, the band visits the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. for a night of live music, webcast in its entirety on NPR.org.

"State of the Union" finds David Ford at his crankiest and most distinct, as he crafts a bitter, paranoid screed — "With friends like these, well, who needs politicians?" — that still mixes the personal and political while still sounding strangely lovely.

Even if you've never sought out the music of Donny Hathaway, you've probably felt his presence: His low-key, insistent way of interpreting a song has been emulated by virtually every contemporary soul and R&B singer. But still his records remain under-appreciated.

Some pure Americana comes from the pen of recent four-time Grammy winner William Bolcom. His "Ragomania" honors jazz great Eubie Blake and Bolcom's idol George Gershwin. Marin Alsop conducts the Aspen Festival Orchestra.

A show in Washington, D.C., features paintings, lithographs and other representations of the banjo. One of America's most endearing musical instruments also played a turbulent role in racial history.

The popular Burmese rock band Iron Cross is using music to challenge the nation's infamously repressive regime. Writer and radio producer Scott Carrier recently visited Burma, and he reports that in the great tradition of rock and roll, Iron Cross is taking on Burma's military government with song.

Chris Wood of Modeski, Martin and Wood and his brother, Oliver Wood, take listeners on a rootsy journey through American music on acoustic bass and guitar.