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Zemelewa was recorded by 15 musicians in four studios on two continents.

The name describes the band, and its sound. Frank talks with drummer Bill Summers and trumpeter Irvin Mayfield from Los Hombres Calientes, or, The Hot Men, a group that blends African musical traditions with home grown New Orleans jazz. This week, the eclectic band, which actually does include a female member, releases its third CD, Volume 3, New Congo Square, and the music will surely make you want to groove. (12:45) (NOTE: Volume 3, New Congo Square is available on Basin Street Rec

Franz Wright is the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry -- and he's the inspiration for ill lit, a New York rock band that is named for a collection of his poetry. Wright speaks and ill lit band member Daniel Ahearn speak with NPR's Scott Simon.

The band Modest Mouse have grown from a well-respected indie-rock act to a major-label band that sold over a million-and-a-half copies of its last record, Good News For People Who Love Bad News, in large part because of the inescapable single "Float On." Their new LP is titled We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank.

Gino Yevdjevich is the lead singer of the Bosnian-Bulgarian punk rock band Kultur Shock. He was a rock musician in Sarajevo when the Bosnian War broke out. During the war, he played a major role in rewriting the musical Hair into a new version called Hair: Sarajevo, AD 1992 which played in Sarajevo for three years to standing room only crowds. Yevdjevich now lives in Seattle; he moved there in 1996 when a theatre produced his play Sarajevo: Behind Gods Back. His band Kultur Shock has a new CD called F.U.C.C. the INS (Kool Arrow Records).

The band from Denton, Texas, was deep into the recording of its fourth album when its lead singer left the group. It forced the remaining members to scrap the new songs and start over with a brand-new sound. The result is Midlake's best record in years.

Chelsea O. chatted with the band about the release of their debut album, songwriting while on a flight home, their aim to delve into themes of faith, loss, and connection, and much more.

Singer Matt Berninger and NPR's Audie Cornish discuss the band's new album (Trouble Will Find Me), being in a band of brothers, how his own brother inspired "I Should Live in Salt," and his own sheepish attitude toward the band's recent success.

In the 1960s and '70s, Johnson, who died Jan. 11, played on recordings by Charles Mingus, McCoy Tyner and Carla Bley. He also led his own ensembles, including Gravity. Originally broadcast in 1984.

The special counsel's office has proposed that a federal judge set Jan. 2, 2024 as the start of former President Donald Trump's trial on charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election.