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Before he was famous for popularizing bossa nova with "The Girl from Ipanema" in the early 1960s, saxophonist Stan Getz recorded with small jazz groups all through the '50s. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says a new reissue shows Getz was one of the best at playing pretty.

The singer-songwriter's newest record, Tell Me, was inspired by stories of heartbreak. But at 21, with two albums and many life experiences under her belt, Mayfield isn't always the one getting her heart broken.

Lawyers for North Carolina Republican legislative leaders want a Supreme Court justice to stay out of ruling in a longstanding public education funding case because of her legal history

Singer-songwriter Brian Carpenter has cited places like Coney Island and the Florida Panhandle as inspiration for his work. On his latest album, Hothouse Stomp, Carpenter musically travels back to the jazz scene in 1920s Harlem and Chicago.

A stunt, a joke or a big lie? There was nothing special in the story behind the New Jersey-based band Delicate Steve. A press release used to promote the band, on the other hand, was something altogether more fantastic.

Spending her early career in the British punk band X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene is no stranger to making musical statements of principle on her own idiosyncratic terms. Her new album is Generation Indigo.

The Yankee star and ex-boyfriend of Marilyn Monroe "really couldn't function away from baseball. That was his language ... that was his grace," says the author of a new biography of the athlete. The book looks at his life after baseball and his fans' awestruck paeans to his lyrical movement on the field.

Last month the haunting and delicate music from the score of The Social Network won the Oscar for best original score, and for millions of fans of the industrial band Nine Inch Nails, there was a moment of jaw-dropping surprise when a clean-cut Trent Reznor took the stage to accept the award.

For the Texas trio, music and family have always been intertwined. The Brothers Garza talk about their new album and what they learned from their father, a music veteran in his own right.

The guitarist opens up about his music, his legendary journeys on the road with The Rolling Stones and his occasionally contentious relationship with lead singer Mick Jagger in a new memoir called Life.