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The long-running rock band's latest album is driven by themes of loss and grief, set against ferocious guitars and soaring vocals. Fresh Air critic Ken Tucker says the provocatively titled I Hate Music is full of typically superlative moments.

The band helped create alt-country in the early '90s, but it's been 16 years since its principal members, Mark Olson and Gary Louris, recorded together. The two songwriters discuss breaking that streak on their new album, Mockingbird Time.

Low-tech 8-bit and 16-bit game systems inspire most of MAGFest's assortment of live cover bands.

Seligman played on The Soft Boys' influential 1980 album Underwater Moonlight and in Bowie's backing band at Live Aid. He died Friday of complications from COVID-19.

Yet another metallic masterpiece from the Portland band, The Serpent & The Sphere feels like a film shot out of sequence, with "Eureka!" moments hidden throughout.

The psychedelic ensemble's new album is a potent brew of free jazz, droning Thai melodies, minimalism and mutant funk.

Singer Chris Martin and drummer Will Champion discuss the band's sustained success, as well as its curiously named new album, Mylo Xyloto.

Air was a flagship of the 1970s avant-garde, but saxophonist Henry Threadgill, bassist Fred Hopkins and drummer Steve McCall first came together to play Scott Joplin's piano music. That and more are documented on a massive eight-CD box set of Threadgill's music.

For NPR's "One-Hit Wonders/Second-Best Songs," NPR Music's Stephen Thompson recommends "Happiness Writes White" by the band Harvey Danger. The band is known mostly for their 1997 hit "Flagpole Sitta."

Fear not, Nietzsche’s lives. The music won’t stop, and the bands will play on, says Sam Marabella, own of the new owners of the famed and fabled Allen Street destination.