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The heart of the blues-rock group Heartless Bastards is Erika Wennerstrom, who wears hers on her sleeve. Her band's new album, The Mountain, features a bold, hard-hitting sound.

Lal Meri features three L.A.-based musicians with very different backgrounds. Their cultural ancestries span much of the globe, and they've made careers in genres ranging from soul and jazz to rock 'n' roll and trip-hop. Reviewer Banning Eyre says that the music is more than the sum of its parts.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the second album from the indie-pop duo The Bird And The Bee.

Morrison released Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl this past week. The recording captures the singer performing his classic album in its entirety for the first time ever. Originally released in 1968, Astral Weeks is widely regarded as one of the best records of all time.

Corneille Nyungura, known simply as Corneille, presents his unique sound to American audiences with the new album, The Birth of Cornelius.

Saadiq is a new soul making "old" music. His latest record, The Way I See It, could have come right out of the '60s, but his style doesn't mesh well with modern marketing. Saadiq is making the music he loves, which he doesn't think is "retro" at all.

American folk singer Connie Dover grew up in the Midwest but travels every summer to be a camp cook at dude ranches around Yellowstone National Park. She expresses a longing to be closer to nature in the song "I Am Going To The West."

Two albums featuring the late rock 'n' roll icon have been released — Memorial Collection and Down the Line: Rarities. Rock historian Ed Ward considers Holly's music and tragic death.

The 23rd annual South by Southwest music festival gets under way in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday. One of this year's most widely anticipated shows comes from a well-known band: The Decemberists. The band will perform its new album, The Hazards of Love, in its entirety.

Mark O'Connor's new Americana Symphony follows the spirit of America's historic westward expansion and the music it engendered. The fiddler says he's trying to identify something long overlooked in classical music — our native language.