Jacob Ganz

The cello ensemble plays all 20 of the songs written and published as sheet music — but not recorded — by Beck.

Hear two different versions of one song, "Death of a Party," from Blur's career-spanning box set.

A huge appetite for drugs, a U.F.O. cult, great songs — just a few parts of the Tim Maia story.

A trick of light made the rapper, who has been dead for more than 15 years, the most talked about musician after the first weekend of this year's Coachella festival.

Adele won every category in which she was nominated, including Record, Album and Song of the Year, and performed for the first time in months.

The Nova Scotian stalwarts attribute their longevity to a tight code of democracy and avoiding the spotlight.

In rock and roll terms, the Portland-based band is a veteran act. When they started playing together 17 years ago, they had no idea the gig would last. Now, Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss have put out their eighth album, called American Gong.

In 1989, two members of the rock band Superchunk launched a tiny record label. Twenty years later, amid the struggles of the music industry at large, Merge has become one of the most respected and successful companies in the business.

Forty-five years after the debut of Terry Riley's IN C, the composer and his son, guitarist Gyan Riley, talk about performing the minimalist classic together.

Last year, the band Grizzly Bear earned the acclaim of critics with Yellow House, recorded in and inspired by the childhood home of frontman Ed Droste. The Brooklyn band's songs are warm and comfortable, yet somehow strange and new.