npr	Mountain Stage Remembers Odetta May 11, 2010 Legendary folksinger Odetta visited Mountain Stage seven times during her highly influential, 50-year career. Today’s Mountain Stage features video of an interview and set she did in 2006 at the ...

npr	Bowerbirds: Tiny Desk Concert May 11, 2010 Bowerbirds' handcrafted songs creak and swell like wooden floorboards in an old house. With acoustic guitar, accordion and violin, the band’s pastoral folk music has a distinctively ...

npr	The Sonorous Strings of the Erhu May 11, 2010 It sounds almost like a violin, but not quite. The erhu is a traditional Chinese two-string instrument, played with a bow. Virtuoso soloist Ma Xiaohui demonstrates how to finesse music out of it.

npr	Songwriter Hayden Travels 'Field and ... May 11, 2010 Toronto musician Hayden is known for his quirky sad songs and his latest album, In Field and Town, is full of them. The intimacy of the record extends to the liner notes, which are a reproduction ...

npr	Tokyo Police Club Goes Acoustic for SXSW May 11, 2010 Tokyo Police Club’s party-starting mod-punk show up minus its heavy rhythms, in an acoustic version of "Tesselate." David Monks sits solo on The Current's stage, on the corner of 7th and ...

npr	Nellie McKay Reveals 'Cavendish' May 11, 2010 Witty singer-songwriter Nellie McKay had three days to write and record a song. The end result is an intricate three-part tune named after a London hotel.

npr	The New 'Flavors' of Alanis ... May 11, 2010 Back with a new album, Flavors of Entanglement, Morissette talks about heartache and healing. After the painful breakup of her long engagement to actor Ryan Reynolds, Morissette has a lot to say ...

npr	Alberta Cross On World Cafe May 11, 2010 Alberta Cross makes driving, Americana-tinged blues-rock that belies its members' London roots.  In this World Cafe session for WXPN, they play songs from their latest ...

npr	Woven Hand: Tiny Desk Concert May 11, 2010 On tour with a full band, Woven Hand’s David Eugene Edwards went solo at Bob Boilen's desk with his mandolin-banjo hybrid, a unique instrument made in 1887 by luthier August Pollman. He ...

npr	Zee Avi: Tiny Desk Concert May 11, 2010 The success of Malaysian-born singer-songwriter Zee Avi is an increasingly familiar but noteworthy story: Avi was discovered after she posted a few songs on YouTube. Within two months, she was ...

npr	The Antlers: Tiny Desk Concert May 11, 2010 For much of the past year, the band has stunned live audiences with its extraordinary range, moving seamlessly and gracefully from quiet, delicate moments to thundering swells of chaotic rock ...

npr	Andrew W.K.: Tiny Desk Concert May 11, 2010 Sometimes, an idea is so perverse and bizarre that it needs to be carried out and followed to its logical end. So once we hatched the idea to bring long-haired, wild-eyed, keyboard-pounding, ...

npr	Whistling with Peter Bjorn and John May 11, 2010 Peter Moran serves up a slice of the Swedish trio’s catchy, catchy pop.

npr	Dodos No Longer an Extinct Species May 11, 2010 The Dodos are a San Francisco duo who build a clattering sound out of minimal elements — just acoustic guitar, drums and voice. The band visited the BPP studios to play songs from their new disc, ...

npr	'Peace, Happiness' and G. Love May 11, 2010 Acoustic funk/soul singer-songwriter G. Love stops by The Bryant Park Project to talk and play music from his new album, Superhero Brother. He says the album was inspired by a recent trip to the ...

npr	Super XX Man: Tiny Desk Concert May 11, 2010 The music of Super XX Man’s Scott Garred is often introspective and deeply personal. It's sometimes playful, bittersweet and dreamy, but Garred's songs are always heartfelt and ...

npr	Sam Phillips: Tiny Desk Concert May 11, 2010 The music of Sam Phillips unfolds like perfect, miniature pop dramas.  Her new album, Don’t Do Anything, is loaded with great ones. Of all her incarnations as a performer — first ...

npr	Sondre Lerche’s Two Real Lives May 11, 2010 This year, Sondre Lerche has had a regular studio album, Phantom Punch, and done the entire soundtrack for the film Dan in Real Life. Lerche talks about bursting through to the mainstream and ...

npr	Scorsese Captures the Stones, in Shadow and ... May 11, 2010 Fresh Air’s film critic says the new Rolling Stones concert film doesn't quite penetrate the band's m—teries — but that the director is a master of style, and the band ...

npr	In Studio: Ben Kweller’s Country Makeover May 11, 2010 As a teenager, the singer-songwriter was already touring the world with his rock band. His new album takes him back to before then, when country music blasted out of Texas radio stations. He ...