This week our playlist includes music by PJ Harvey, Eels, Snoop Dogg, The Beatles, Steve Swallow, Ohio Players, Gene Autry and more.

This week our playlist includes music by Chuck Berry, Al Green, Artie Shaw, Engelbert Humperdink, Arcade Fire, and more.

Covering anyone is a hard task. How on earth do you retain the brilliance and stature of the original song, without ruining it altogether? Very few artists achieve it, although a few have.

In this week's post, we listen to tracks by Ennio Morricone Cass McCombs, The Black Keys, Etta James, Smart Brothers With Baby Neal, and The Anthony Anderson Project.

Mark Oliver Everett of eels talks making three albums in a little over a year and his advice for new, young acts.

This week we give you a summer soundtrack, featuring music by Beck, Etta James, Dr. Dog, Salt-N-Pepa, Eels and others.

When you're 40something, you're probably better off trying to live in the present tense and not in the past -- even at your high school reunion.

In this edition of Compact Reviews, we take a look at new albums by Spoon and the Len Price 3, among others.

Here is my cheap gift to all of you: my personal Top Ten Albums of the Year list -- based on my mood today -- as well a few other stray merry musical musings as stocking stuffers.

Nothing has given me more pleasure this year and this decade than music. It's my therapist, joy, shoulder, understanding and just about everything else that compliments the emotions.

You've heard Elvis Costello sing country music before, but not like this. The lad who gave us Almost Blue is quite mature and worldly wise now.