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Producers and theater owners say Broadway will stay dark until at least June 7, dealing a further blow to New York's biggest tourist attraction.

On the darkest night of the year, the Paul Winter Consort celebrate the winter solstice at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

A new album features the late Ray Charles playing with the Count Basie Orchestra, but Charles never actually recorded with the group. The tracks were mashed together by an audio engineer who used to play with Charles.

One of the best albums of the '80s, and certainly one of the most unjustly overlooked, Gregson and Collister's Home and Away has finally received the reissue it's long deserved. It's a spare, gorgeous record, and no song is more spare or gorgeous than "All the Time in the World."

By the time 1974's Small Talk came out, Stone was viewed as a has-been — a young, brilliant innovator burnt out by drugs and megalomania. A fresh visit to Small Talk, though, counters that assessment, as evidenced by the wry "Wishful Thinkin'."

Ed Palermo first saw Frank Zappa perform in 1969. Since the musician's untimely death in 1993, Palermo has arranged 150 Zappa tunes for The Ed Palermo Big Band. The Big Band's latest CD is Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance.

Stuart Murdoch is the front man for the Scottish indie-pop band Belle and Sebastian. For the group's new CD, The Life Pursuit, they've broken two long-standing traditions: making quietly precious music, and refusing to embrace the media.

The Shins' fine new Wincing the Night Away is built of the same solid stuff that made its predecessors famous: lush pop melodies, rich harmonies, vaguely obtuse lyrics, and sly, sideways hooks. It also features a gorgeous, brightly swooning ringer in "Phantom Limb."

Sharon Jones has great talent and a great story. The "queen of funk" has faced music honchos and wildly shifting music trends, but has more than earned her nickname. Hear Jones and her band, The Dap-Kings, in an interview and performance from WFUV.

Built around a one-chord boogie, The White Stripes' "Rag and Bone" barely qualifies as a song: It mostly revs in neutral as it plays out like a sketch punctuated by blasts of bluesy rock. More importantly, it finally allows drummer Meg White to showcase her personality.