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Michael Ramos was the ideal sideman, recording with John Mellencamp, the BoDeans and The Rembrandts. Now, with his own group, Charanga Cakewalk, he returns to his Tex-Mex roots.

Chinese pianist Chu-Fang Huang took first prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition this week. She joins host Lisa Simeone to talk about the competition, and we hear her prize-winning performance in Severance Hall with the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Jahja Ling.

Devo is back. Mark Mothersbaugh, lead singer of the seminal '80s New Wave band, talks about the group's new album and tour. He's also been busy with soundtracks for movies like Happy Gilmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic.

KT Tunstall is a one-woman band, literally. She plays and sings the multiple parts of her songs while using a machine to loop them in real time, making for a performance style that lends her songs an extra rawness.

After a long silence between records — and fears that the group would call it quits — Teenage Fanclub returns with a new collection of songs: Man-Made.

Eliza Gilkyson wrote "Requiem" as a song of grief following last year's Asian tsunami. Now, after Hurricane Katrina's devastation, listeners are again turning to the song of prayer and comfort.

To accompany a concert performance of a seldom-performed piano concerto by Bela Bartok, NPR's Fred Child tells the story of the music's inception in the summer of 1945. Zoltan Kocsis is the pianist, with Sakari Oramo conducting the Finnish Radio Symphony in the Bartok Piano Concerto No. 3.

B.B. King's loved ones gathered at a Southern California home recently to celebrate his 80th birthday with a backyard concert featuring performances from some of his closest friends.

Coldplay is pledging to make the band's current tour "as sustainable and low carbon as possible."

Folk-music legend Odetta was a force in the 1960s push for social justice. Her passion inspired fellow musicians and activists such as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Harry Belafonte. Odetta died Dec. 2, 2008, at the age of 77. Hear a 2005 interview.