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Gordon Chambers talks about his new album Introducing... Gordon Chambers.

Melissa Block talks with Colin Meloy of the Decemberists, whose new CD Picaresque was recorded in a church in their hometown of Portland, Ore. Meloy likes to write songs that describe events outside his actual experience.

Alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, son of Indian immigrants, says he didn't think about his ethnic identity growing up. But on his new album Kinsmen, he and other like-minded South Asian American jazz musicians, fuse American jazz with a global sound that embraces the music of India.

The singer-songwriter's second album is sparing and remarkably tough, weighted by an instrumental sound that matches Yanya's darker impulses and solidifies her status as a bona fide rock star.

Ed Gordon talks with dancer, actor and now jazz singer Valarie Pettiford about her versatile career and debut CD Hear My Soul.

Betty's has become a home base for the Triangle's famously collaborative music scene.

Talib Kweli discusses the return of Black Star after 24 years, including a return to some of the duo's foundational themes — black excellence, unity, Pan-Africanism and the raising of consciousness.

Carl Orff's 1937 composition Carmina Burana remains one of the most popular pieces of the classical music repertoire. Conductor Marin Alsop and Scott Simon discuss why so many artists have performed the piece.

In his first documentary, filmmaker Todd Haynes uses the language of experimental cinema to spotlight the Velvet Underground, a legendary band that flowered within New York's avant-garde art world.

Singer, actor and human rights activist Harry Belafonte died Tuesday. He was 96. He broke racial barriers and balanced his activism with his artistry in ways that made people around the world listen.