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Music critic Meredith Ochs reviews Hello Love, the third album by Canadian roots band the Be Good Tanyas. The group mixes down-home guitar picking with the harmonizing vocals of lead singer Frazey Ford and bandmates Samantha Parton and Trish Klein.

Not everyone ends up at a parade on purpose. Singer Jeff Tweedy of the band Wilco found himself trapped by one years ago in his hometown of Belleville, Ill. That moment inspired the title track song of Wilco's new album, Sky Blue Sky. Tweedy shares this memory and reflects on how it changed him.

The fast-rising country band brings first-rate craftsmanship to one of popular music's abiding themes: savoring fleeting pleasures.

A theatrical, 10-minute track that respects the roots of one of heavy metal's most glorious bands, but also looks forward with wonder.

The pianist's first visit to France and the 3,000-seat Salle Pleyel concert hall ended in disaster. Fifteen years later, after he became an international star, Monk returned to the same stage with his own band, planning a surprise.

Since 1979, the tenor saxophonist has hosted a weekly jam session at a colorful South Side Chicago bar. Rarely is the house group captured on his recordings, but Vonski Speaks features the brawny, bluesy jazzman — and his band — in Berlin.

With a name like a hardware store, Mumford & Sons is a British folk-rock band with a huge stateside following. For the group, testing out songs on the road is part of the creative process.

Los Lobos has been active since the 1970s, and during that time the band has done everything from opening for Bob Dylan, U2 and the Grateful Dead, to recording a tribute album to Walt Disney soundtracks. Rock critic Ken Tucker says Los Lobos' new album, Tin Can Trust, stands with the group's best work.

As a composer, Coleman has been heavily influenced by James Brown's funk. You wouldn't mistake Coleman's band Five Elements for J.B.'s, but like the Godfather of Soul, he goes in for fast, jittery beats on Harvesting Semblances and Affinities.

Commentator Jason Berry attended two funerals in the past week and describes them and the mood in New Orleans.