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Born in the Philippines and raised in London, Beatrice Kristi Laus takes her stage name from a former Instagram handle. The music on beabadoobee's new album is a blend of timelessness and immediacy.

Santogold knows a thing or two about pop music. The artist born Santi White worked as a talent scout for a major record label while writing songs for pop artists on the side. Now solo, she performs the instantly catchy "L.E.S. Artistes" and more in an interview and performance from WXPN.

Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane of The Rascals recently joined forces to form a new side project called The Last Shadow Puppets. The duo's debut is a soaring collection of symphonic, '60s-tinged pop that brings out the strengths of both their bands. Hear the band play a stripped-down set on WXPN.

Hear the art-folk group Bowerbirds, Russian-born singer Olga Bell, the pop trio Try Me Bicycle (from our 'Second Stage' series) and more.

While Atmosphere's new album frequently profiles bums, junkies, and promiscuous women, "In Her Music Box" paints a tender portrait of a young, adoring daughter. She and her dad are connected by their love of rap music, and in between trips to McDonald's and the car wash, they sing in their Buick.

After a 16-year hiatus from recording, The B-52s returned to the public eye, releasing the appropriately titled Funplex. Hear the band in an interview and performance.

The young singer, part of a wave of British female pop stars finding success in the U.S., has been compared to Dusty Springfield and sparked rumors that her father is fellow Wales native Tom Jones. She talks about the tiny town where she grew up, and recording her first demos on a karaoke machine.

Blue-eyed soul virtuoso Eli "Paperboy" Reed may have grown up in Massachusetts, but he conveys the heart-wrenching emotion of Southern predecessors such as Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding. Hear an interview and performance from WXPN.

In "Now," the pair ditches its familiar electric organ for a softer blend of piano and synthesizer before jumping feet-first into a clash of childhood and maturity. What could be a gleeful, infantile chorus ("Now now now now now now!") is undercut by an all-too-adult existentialist lament.

At 8 years old, Emmanuel Jal was carrying an AK-47 rifle as a child soldier in the Sudan People's Liberation Army. Taken from battle and adopted by a British aid worker, he is now a rising international music star. He discusses his experiences and music. Jal's new album is titled Warchild.