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Led by former Okkervil River member Jonathan Meiburg, Shearwater possesses a rich, haunting and musically diverse sound. Last year's Rook is packed with careful, atmospheric arrangements and soothing, dreamlike vocals.

The guitarist and vocalist for The Black Keys, a blues-rock group from Ohio, became infatuated with blues music during his childhood and has been releasing his own music for the past eight years. Hear him address topics as varied as Martin Lawrence, Grand Theft Auto and his new album.

Prokofiev's passionate ballet score to Romeo and Juliet combines the lightness of the love story and the tender emotions with music of real violence — which is, after all, a lot of what Shakespeare's play is about.

The quintessential Russian opera, Boris Godunov explores a centuries-old murder mystery, while probing the psyche of its tormented title character.

With a husky whisper of a voice and a well-developed acoustic guitar style, Matt Ward might easily be pegged as a folk singer. But reviewer Meredith Ochs says his new album, Hold Time, points in many musical directions.

Blind from birth, Eaglin learned to play the guitar by listening to the radio. He created mesmerizing rhythm and lead tracks from a unique style that utilized his thumbnail. Pianist Allen Toussaint says he was "unlimited on the guitar." Eaglin died Wednesday of a heart attack.

Pizzarelli is known as one of jazz's great chord soloists, as well as an extraordinary rhythm player. Now 83, Pizzarelli was recently honored by the New York Public Library as one of its speakers at the "Duke Jazz Talks," an interview series in which he performed with his son, John Pizzarelli.

Extra Golden blends rock and Kenyan benga style to create music that's steeped in personal strength through loss. The group's newest CD, Thank You Very Quickly, honors the memory of Extra Golden's former guitarist and celebrates the band's African and American roots.

The avant-garde improviser used to joke: "I do country music; it's just a matter of what country." Now on his first North American tour in more than two decades, he describes his atmospheric electronics and soft, subtle trumpet style.

Wielding many instruments and a remarkable whistling ability, Bird has developed an offbeat marriage of classical and pop music over the course of his decade-long career. Describing his new album, Noble Beast, as a less electric effort, Bird still finds value in carefully chosen words.