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  • Connie Hamzy earlier this year at an exhibit on concerts at Barton Coliseum in Little Rock. She died Saturday at the age of 66.
    ‘Sweet, Sweet Connie’ In Grand Funk Railroad Hit Dies At 66
    Connie Hamzy, a rock ‘n’ roll groupie from Arkansas who was immortalized as “sweet, sweet Connie” in the 1973 Grand Funk Railroad hit “We’re an American…
  • New York musician Dan Kaufman (third from right) traveled to Rome to learn more about the city's Jewish community and the Italian resistance during WWII. The result is a new album by his band Barbez, based in part on the lost melodies of Roman Jewish music.
    Barbez Mines Resistance And Tradition Of Italian Jews
    Inspired by an ethnomusicologist, musician Dan Kaufman revives forgotten melodies on Bella Ciao.
  • Jimmy Page (right) and Robert Plant (left) of Led Zeppelin performing in the U.K. in 1975.
    Jury Clears Led Zeppelin In 'Stairway To Heaven' Plagiarism Suit
    A California jury has ruled that the members of Led Zeppelin did not steal the melody that opens a seminal song in rock history.
  • The eyeball mask, soon to be retired.
    The Residents
    This year marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of the San Francisco band The Residents, a group that's credited with pioneering punk rock, art rock and techno. They presaged the future of independent labels, music videos and CD-ROMs. So, why have so few people heard of them? NPR's Neda Ulaby came up with some answers.
  • Summer Street Music Series: Boston
    About 10 years ago, Eric Royer gave up punk music for folk and set up shop on the streets of Boston. He started out playing just a banjo -- but the sound wasn't quite right. So he put a slide guitar on his lap, a harmonica around his neck. and at his feet -- a guitar operated by pedals. NPR's Chris Arnold says Royer has accomplished what few can pull off: a one-man band. Hear excerpts of his music.
  • Ian MacKaye, co-founder of Dischord Records and the bands Fugazi and Minor Threat, and Amy Farina, formerly of The Warmers, form The Evens. Their third album together is called <em>The Odds</em>.
    The Evens: The Power Of Turning Down The Volume
    Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina's music as The Evens is quiet and spare, but it preserves the intensity of their past bands, Fugazi and The Warmers. Here, the husband and wife discuss their latest album, The Odds.
  • <p>Thom Yorke at Radiohead's Sept. 28 concert at Roseland Ballroom in New York.</p>
    Radiohead: Everything In Its Right Place
    Singer Thom Yorke and guitarist Ed O'Brien discuss the patchwork process behind the band's latest album, The King of Limbs — and the difficulty of adapting it for live performance.
  • Playing Heavy Metal In Baghdad: Acrassicauda
    The Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda formed in a basement in Baghdad under the Saddam Hussein regime — not exactly the easiest place to play thrash metal. The group, featured in the 2007 documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad, just released its first EP, called Only the Dead See the End of the War.
  • In Russia, Punk-Rock Riot Girls Rage Against Putin
    Anti-government protests in Russia are taking many forms — one of the latest is a feminist collective's performance in Red Square of a song criticizing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The guerrilla group says it plans more exploits before March's presidential elections.
  • Supreme Court gives skeptical eye to key statute used to prosecute Jan. 6 rioters
    Conservatives on the court expressed varying degrees of skepticism about the charge of obstructing an official proceeding.
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