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Tickets to a reunion concert of the pop group in London sold out in 38 seconds this week.

The Irish singer brings a plaintive, pensive atmosphere to the Tiny Desk.

We remember Luciano Pavarotti, the most famous opera singer of the modern age. He died Thursday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. We'll hear his performance of "Ah Mes Amis," an aria with nine high Cs.

The latest issue of Blender magazine includes a piece titled "White House DJ," which features lists of the top 10 favorite songs of presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Jonathan Schwartz talks about the candidates' selections, as well as their only commonality: Frank Sinatra.

Indie heroes The Breeders, led by twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal, stop by Bryant Park Project studios and play a few songs from their new record, Mountain Battles.

Talking Heads co-founder David Byrne has made New York's Battery Maritime Building sing — literally. The once-busy ferry terminal was fitted with wires, hoses and solenoids. This isn't Byrne's exercise in being arty. Anyone can play the building.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Real Animal, the new album by Austin, Texas-based underground legend Alejandro Escovedo.

Grammy-winner Ricky Skaggs is redoing his own country hits. On his latest album, The High Notes, the musician gives his older classics a bluegrass twist.

French composers Jules Massenet and Francis Poulenc provide a potent reminder that love isn't always what it's cracked up to be in their one-act operas Portrait of Manon and La Voix Humaine, produced by Glimmerglass Opera.

Master cellist Bernard Greenhouse, 92, and his 300-year-old Stradivarius cello have been constant companions for the last half century. Greenhouse was a founding member of the legendary Beaux Arts Trio, which plays its final U.S. concert at the Tanglewood Festival in Massachusetts.