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The Queen of Rockabilly has just released a new album with Jack White of The White Stripes. In 2003, Jackson sat down with Terry Gross to explain why she switched from country to rock.

Terrell was perhaps best known for her duet work with Marvin Gaye, but the young singer released solo recordings before they'd ever collaborated. These solo recordings have been collected on a new anthology called Come On and See Me.

After spending a year sailing up the Eastern Seaboard, Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore felt inspired to turn their stories into songs.

Nastiness and cynicism often take precedence over melody in Colin Newman's singing, but not in Wire's "Smash." For all the harsh guitars hanging in the air, Newman's words glide onto the hook like apple butter, sweet and smooth.

When La Lupe, the "Queen of Latin Soul," peaked in the 1960s, she was a regular at the Palladium Club and played Madison Square Garden. By the late 1980s, she was on welfare with no fixed address. Critic Milo Miles says a new retrospective album redeems the forgotten singer.

This was a big year for jazz musicians who focused on their small groups. Their really, really small groups.

The mild-mannered pianist is fiercely devoted to expressing rhythmical freedom in the musical line. Hear her pick favorite recordings by artists who share her aesthetic.

Gilmore travels back to the 1930s for inspiration on his forthcoming album, Heirloom Music. The Texas singer talks about his songs and his performance at the 2011 South by Southwest music festival.

Clegg's new album, Human, is his first to be released in the U.S. in 17 years. He says that, even with Apartheid so far in the past, residents of his home country are still learning what it means to be South African.

Over the course of 40 years, Iggy Pop has changed from a noisy brat with seemingly no chance at stardom to a widely respected founder of punk. A new box set, Roadkill Rising, collects many of his unreleased concert bootlegs.