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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."

Funny how travel abroad can affect your outlook. Guitarist Lee Ritenour says recent trips to South Africa and Brazil have given him new legs, musically speaking. The result is his latest CD, Smoke 'N' Mirrors.

In the late 1960s, just as San Francisco was having its own Summer of Love, a rustic canyon at the heart of Los Angeles was also in bloom with songs that defined the moment, written and performed by the bands that defined a generation.

Soprano Renee Fleming delights an audience in Buffalo with a surprise performance of Cole Porter's "So in Love" from the musical Kiss Me Kate. Conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic back her up at Kleinhans Hall.