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The third album from the British rock band Coldplay is called X&Y. For the past five years, Coldplay has been steadily climbing the ladder of pop music success. And with this record many in the music business believe the four soft-spoken Brits will earn the title "biggest band in the world."

Rock and roll is alive and well atop the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, as Twenty One Pilots' Breach hits No. 1.

Lost and Found Sound looks at the Green Street Mortuary Band from San Francisco's Chinatown. More than 300 Chinese families a year hire the band to give their loved ones a proper and musical send-off through the streets of Chinatown. For more than 50 years, this amateur band performed for its community at nearly every big event.

Surprise, anger, parenting and Lizzo: That's one way to sum up the list of the most engaging stories in 2019. Other big topics included consumerism and climate change — and officials behaving badly.

The jazz quartet Rudder is eager to amuse, but can also be as mournful and moving as a New Orleans funeral march. The band's latest release, Matorning, is a breath of sweet oxygen in an oft-stale instrumental scene.

WABE's Christopher Alston introduces us to the first two rappers in any military musical organization.

All the members of the Toronto-based ASD Band are on the Autism Spectrum. This month, they've been dropping new covers of songs each week in celebration of Canada's Autism Awareness Month.

The new album Synthetica is the second to be released by the group's own distribution company, Metric Music International. "There's one band at the center of that whole organization — and it's us," says lead singer Emily Haines.

The Seattle band Ivan and Alyosha counts neither an Ivan nor an Alyosha among its ranks. It takes its name from characters in the Dostoevsky novel The Brothers Karamazov. Turns out the questions of faith in that book can be found in this group's music, too — however inverted.