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Halstead has gone from making warm, fuzzy, distorted noise in Slowdive to dusty Americana in Mojave 3. Now on his own, he plays music with a stunning yet carefree style. Here, he shares his acoustic sound in a session from KEXP.

In 1964, with the help of The Rolling Stones, a shy 19-year-old Londoner named Vashti Bunyan decided to try her hand at becoming a folk-pop singer. Three years later, she quit. But after four decades, Bunyan has returned for another chance at stardom.

A new Hank Williams collection has just been released, featuring songs that few fans have heard. The Unreleased Recordings of Hank Williams includes rare performances from a Nashville radio program Williams hosted in 1951. The legend's daughter, Jett Williams, discusses the origins of the newly found treasure trove of music.

Moore's story is a struggling musician's dream come true. In 2007, he sent his demo to Sub Pop Records unsolicited, and the charming folk songs caught the label's attention. Moore's debut album, Stray Age, showcases his beautiful voice and sensitive lyrics while marking him as an artist to watch.

Starting out in saxophonist George Benson's band as a teenager, guitarist Earl Klugh has found nothing but success since then. With just a nylon-string guitar, the Grammy-winning Klugh treated Jazz24 to solo guitar treatments of two jazz standards and an original.

Hatfield has worked with Blake Babies, The Lemonheads and the trio that shares her name, and she's been a prominent player in projects such as TV's My So-Called Life and The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Here, she shares new music and her thoughts on publishing in a session from WFUV.

Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell is often associated with country music, but his songs have a much wider reach, often spanning rock, folk, swing and bluegrass. Hear the musician, who recently released Sex and Gasoline, in a session with World Cafe host David Dye.

When musician Max Raabe arrived in Berlin in the mid-'80s, he was expecting to find the cabarets and variety theaters his grandmother told him about, but they were long gone. He decided to create his own orchestra, dedicated to performing the elegant dance hits of the '20s and '30s in their original arrangements.

Miami-based DJ Le Spam has been orchestrating Afro-Cuban beats for more than a decade. With a cadre of horn, guitar and flute players and a stack of old records, he and the Spam Allstars hold court weekly at the club Hoy Como Ayer. Here, he paints a picture of the Miami club scene and shares some of the stories behind the new album Introducing Spam Allstars.

Spurred by a string of bad news in his personal life, novelist Mikel Jollett turned to writing songs instead of prose for relief. Within months, The Airborne Toxic Event was born. The L.A. band shakes up standard rock with a viola and trumpet in this session from WXPN.