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Though he has toured with Norah Jones as a guitarist, Richard Julian also has a distinguished solo career of his own. His previous album, Good Life, won an Independent Music Award as best album of the year. His latest release is Slow New York.

The Wood Brothers perform the latest in a series of midday concerts from NPR Music and WXPN. The roots-rock duo's show has ended. But their full performance from the stage of World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, Pa., is available in archive form.

The Vanity Project is the first solo effort by Steven Page, one of the frontmen of the wildly successful Canadian folk-pop band Barenaked Ladies. The self-titled album is something of a departure.

Birgit Nilsson, who is often described as the greatest Wagnerian soprano of the post-World War II era, has died at the age of 87. Her family in Sweden is keeping private the cause and exact date of her death.

Composer Tan Dun grew up in Mao's China. As a boy, he saw his parents sent away for so-called "re-education." He describes his musical coming of age under China's Cultural Revolution.

Brazilian group Nacao Zumbi present a modern blend of their country's musical heritage with the global sounds of funk, punk and hip-hop that are seeping into their country's popular culture. the band counts such diverse tastemakers as David Byrne, Asian Dub Foundation and Goldie as fans

The punk rock group Arctic Monkeys is clambering up the British music charts. Their debut album is soon to be released in the United States. Influences include Oasis and The Clash, but they have their own sound.

Cabaret singer Maude Maggart has a show biz pedigree — her grandparents performed together in a swing band in the 1930s and '40s, her parents met in the original cast of the Broadway musical Applause and her little sister is pop star Fiona Apple. Her shows and albums have been earning rave reviews.

The French band Nouvelle Vague takes classic New Wave singles from the '80s and adds a Brazilian twist — courtesy of the other "new wave": bossa nova. What began as a project between producers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux has expanded to include the efforts of eight female singers, each with their own style.

Shawn Amos is a musician and lyricist whose songs explore themes of race, history and masculinity. The enigmatically titled Thank You Shirl-ee May (A Love Story) is his third release.