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The members of Grandaddy are back with the band's first new music in a decade.

Grandaddy Is Back! Frontman Jason Lytle Talks About New Album, Shares Two New Songs

Ten years after Grandaddy's last album, the Modesto, Calif. band has released two new songs. Singer Jason Lytle reveals the emotional turmoil behind his return to the band's signature distorted pop.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique performing Beethoven's Egmont Overture, the opening piece at an all Beethoven concert at Carnegie Hall.

John Eliot Gardiner's Historical Beethoven At Carnegie Hall

One of the world's top original instruments ensembles, the Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra, plays Beethoven by the book.

Conductor (and flutist) Nicholas McGegan fell in love with opera as a kid.

A Gramophone And Mozart, Or How I Fell For Opera

The celebrated conductor recalls how a brand new record player and a stack of Mozart LPs sparked his life-long love of opera. Hear what he describes as "still my favorite recording of my favorite piece in the world."

Vissarion Shebalin's music, like that of his compatriots Shostakovich and Prokoviev, was denounced by Soviet officials.

Classical Lost and Found: The Lighter Side Of Vissarion Shebalin

Like his friend and compatriot Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer Vissarion Shebalin swayed with the dictates of the regime, from grand success to humiliating condemnation. A new album of orchestral suites puts the lighter side of Shebalin's music into focus.

Death Cab for Cutie's <em>Transatlanticism (10th Anniversary Edition)</em> comes out Oct. 29.

First Listen: Death Cab For Cutie, 'Transatlanticism (10th Anniversary Edition)'

For all its ubiquity and imitators, 2003's Transatlanticism holds up as an exquisitely produced, largely flawless record in which every song is bound to be someone's favorite. In this reissue, the album is packaged alongside an identically sequenced yet revelatory set of demo versions.

Freddie Gibbs: 'I Think I'm The Best Rapper'

The rapper from Gary, Ind., moved to L.A. 10 years ago, where he met Madlib, a producer revered for his collaborations. The two of them have now made an album Gibbs thinks can't be touched.

For three years, jazz musician Vijay Iyer has worked with poet and performer Mike Ladd to set the words of war veterans to music. The resulting album, released earlier this month, is called <em>Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project</em>.

Vijay Iyer On Learning From War

For three years, the jazz musician and his collaborator Mike Ladd have been working with war veterans-turned-poets to bring their words to light. NPR's Arun Rath speaks with Iyer and Iraq veteran Maurice Decaul about the album that resulted, Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project.

Perfume Genius' new album, <em>Too Bright</em>, comes out Sept. 23.

First Listen: Perfume Genius, 'Too Bright'

After two solid albums, Too Bright is something shockingly new for Perfume Genius: a set of muscular, magnificently controlled songs that explore darkness inside and out.

Jake Bugg's new album, <em>Shangri La</em>, comes out Nov. 19.

First Listen: Jake Bugg, 'Shangri La'

The 19-year-old Bugg is both a rebel and a natural-born hitmaker, expressing anger, hope and the desire for change within melodies that sound totally right for the radio.

First Listen: Jason Moran, 'Ten'

If you follow modern jazz, be of good cheer: Moran's new album, which celebrates 10 years of his Bandwagon trio, is as brilliant as anything he's done. If you don't already know about this guy, start here; he's an impressive jazz pianist who thinks way beyond jazz. Hear Ten in its entirety until its release on June 22.

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