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The rootsy rock band pairs smart songwriting with sing-along choruses that prove hard to resist.

On its second album, the British rock duo moves smoothly from tantrum to anthem, crafting songs with singalong hooks and buckets of sweaty, cathartic rage.

Amid the clipped one-word titles and ominous synthesizers, there's a desperation to connect — and a soundtrack for dancing.

The singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer is everywhere these days. He shares his favorite SXSW routine and remembers his first years at the festival.

With the aid of mostly unknown guest vocalists, the group's proven formula receives a fresh shot of youth, enthusiasm and pure pop fierceness.

For 50 years, this little-known archive of civil rights activities has gone pretty much untouched and untapped.

Now that the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods has made more than $100 million at the box office in just three weeks, NPR's movie critic Bob Mondello has a modest musical proposal.

For the first half of the 20th century, Tin Pan Alley songwriters like Irving Berlin and the Gershwins dominated pop music. By the the 1950s, tastes had changed, and the music changed with them.

"Death metal really does come from the heart," says The Mountain Goats frontman and author of Wolf In White Van. In Durham, he plays "The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton."

A hymn favored by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. helps the Oscar-nominated film make a well-known historical story powerfully intimate. But the song has a tragic story of its own.