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If you're a music fan, the place to be this week is Austin, Texas. The annual South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival is in full swing. Music critic Stephen Thompson shares tracks from some of his favorite artists performing at the festival.

Firmly anchored in the stuff of southern legend, The Drive-By Truckers' songs are full of love and loss. They played songs from their latest album, A Blessing and a Curse, at NPR's studios.

Weird and kind of wonderful, Dylan sings Sinatra.

Like any hockey game, the 11 Day Power Play wouldn’t be possible without referees to keep the peace. My conversation with an official for the 11-day long hockey game is coming up, plus a look at how the Blue Jays have been heating up as of late.

Assigned the task of picking a standout song from The Rolling Stones' catalog, the guitarist settled on one he helped compose: the disco-inflected "Dance (Pt. 1)."

Olsen has often been called a folk singer, but Ken Tucker says her new album — her first with a backing band — takes her music into an unclassifiable realm.

Alexander Ebert is the singer and songwriter of the band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Now, he's also a film composer. He speaks with NPR about his work on All Is Lost, which stars Robert Redford as a solitary man lost at sea.

Writers Peter Gould and Thomas Schnauz talk about the finale of the AMC series. Dave Holland's Prism features one of the loudest bands of the bassist's career. And in a new memoir, Just Tell Me I Can't, Moyer explains how he became a better pitcher in his 40s than his 20s.

The Colombian party band, Bomba Estereo, is out with their latest album, Amanecer. NPR reviewer Banning Eyre, senior editor at afropop.org, says it offers a friendly entrée into the realm of electronic dance music with folk roots.

Can the highly publicized band turn its hype into hits? Ken Tucker wants to join the fan club.