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Kentucky's VHS or Beta has evolved from French disco to an '80s-style rock-revival sound. Hear the band perform acoustic versions of songs from its recent Bring on the Comets. Singer Craig Pfunder also relates his experiences as an Asian-American rock singer.

Former Belle and Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell radiates tranquility and calm wonder on "Willows Song." Emulating the haunted, melancholic tone of late-'60s British folk, Isobel Campbell, her off-in-the-cosmos soprano lures her listeners past the words, into the sloping melody and the thick swirls of atmosphere around it.

Kurt Elling's expressive, flexible baritone with a four-octave range can fly over horn lines, caress a love song, or recite poetry. The tenor performs on stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

For a band prone to sad confessionals, Rilo Kiley sounds downright gleeful on "Breakin' Up." Granted, it's a kiss-off song that practically fetishizes rationalization. But there's something uplifting about hearing singer Jenny Lewis "wash the blues away," for once.

At 83, Jose Manuel Cobles (aka Puerto Plata) is a venerable musician from the Dominican Republic. With his long-overdue solo debut album, Mujer de Cabaret, he reveals a formerly hidden side of Dominican music.

There's fertile middle ground between furrow-browed intensity and appreciation for the gleefully absurd, and the U.K. producer's new album finds a sweet spot right there.

Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward cover pop standards with the timeless impeccability for which they're known. Once again, Ward hovers mostly in the background, leaving Deschanel to steal the playful show.

Watch the video in which the psychedelic soul multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter uses her body and music as mechanisms for contrast.

A bright, subtle storyteller, Bonar displays a mastery of pop-rock craftsmanship that keeps these songs as relentlessly catchy on the surface as they are alluringly complex underneath.

Celebrate Saturday's holiday (and, by extension, lost loved ones) with laughter, tears and music.