Rock%20Music%20Interviews
Listen Stephen Colbert On Music: The Fresh Air Interview
October 24, 2012 – From "King Herod's Song" to Ben Folds Five, Colbert talks about some of his favorite music.
Listen From Elgar To Beatles: Abbey Road Blazed A Trail
October 21, 2012 – The pioneering Abbey Road Studios "continues to push boundaries," even in an era of self-recording.
Listen Ben Gibbard: Living With Ghosts
October 20, 2012 – The Death Cab for Cutie frontman says his first solo album is eight years in the making.
Read Tori Amos On Her Muses, Her Song Girls And Her Father
October 17, 2012 – In an interview with Ann Powers the singer reflects on her twenty-year career and her new album.
Watch Kaki King: A Guitar Wizard Conjures New Colors
October 12, 2012 – King says her new album blossomed in the studio from solo guitar pieces into dense arrangements.
Watch Muse: Arena-Sized Entropy On 'The 2nd Law'
October 9, 2012 – Muse's Matthew Bellamy includes the in utero heartbeat of his son in the song "Follow Me."
Listen Ultraísta: Radiohead's Knob-Twister Takes Off
October 6, 2012 – The super-producer behind Radiohead's albums has a new band to show off: his own.
Listen In Memoir, Neil Young Wages 'Heavy Peace'
October 1, 2012 – Waging Heavy Peace sheds new light on the musician's career, family and medical battles.
Listen Janis Martin, 'The Female Elvis,' Returns
September 30, 2012 – The co-producer of the singer's posthumous album talks about getting her idol back in the studio.
Listen Ben Folds Five Is Back
September 29, 2012 – After fame, disillusionment and a nearly decade-long hiatus, the trio has made a new album.
Listen Grizzly Bear On Candor, Democracy And Too Much Music
September 24, 2012 – The Brooklyn band talks about its division of labor and how to break through the indie ceiling.
![Rickie Lee Jones' new album, The Devil You Know, is a collection of covers. "I think [I recorded the album] partially to remind people that a singer is the one who interprets the song," she says. "And once you do that, it's yours."](http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/09/20/rickie1_wide-4d0a4afa4b441547b5ced57cb3af15cc89e62be0-s1.jpg "Rickie Lee Jones' new album, The Devil You Know, is a collection of covers. \"I think [I recorded the album] partially to remind people that a singer is the one who interprets the song,\" she says. \"And once you do that, it's yours.\"")
Listen Rickie Lee Jones: 'One Devil With One Guitar'
September 22, 2012 – On her newest project, The Devil You Know, the singer-songwriter covers a set of cult classics.
Listen A Long Conversation With Bonnie Raitt FolkAlley
September 18, 2012 – The blues guitarist talks with Ann Powers about her influences at the Americana Music Conference. FolkAlley
Listen Aimee Mann: 'Charmer Is Just Another Word For Narcissist'
September 17, 2012 – Mann's new album, Charmer, is a series of character sketches exploring loyalty and exploitation.
Listen Calexico: Road Songs For Wandering Souls
September 15, 2012 – The Tucson band's new album, Algiers, is named for the New Orleans neighborhood where it was made.
