Youssou N'Dour has been selected as one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World" and will perform, along with John Mayer, at the gala celebration tomorrow night.

Jeff Tweedy recently spoke with Pitchfork about Wilco's new album, Sky Blue Sky.

Tune in to hear The Black Keys interview and performance on NPR's World Cafe from WXPN.

Ry Cooder gave a rare live performance this past Saturday, March 24, on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, which was broadcasting from New York’s Town Hall. Ry and his band played songs from his new Nonesuch release, My Name Is Buddy.

After 40 years, Village Music in Mill Valley, California, will be closing its doors this fall. Ry Cooder will be honoring the historic Bay Area vinyl store with a rare in-store appearance on Saturday, March 10. He'll perform songs from his new album, My Name Is Buddy, which was recently featured on NPR's Morning Edition.

John Adams has made the San Francisco Chronicle's society page, on the occasion of his 60th birthday and the forthcoming US premiere of his latest opera, A Flowering Tree, with Adams leading the San Francisco Symphony, beginning March 1.

Ry Cooder's latest album, My Name Is Buddy, is due out on Nonesuch on March 6. "Hugely entertaining," exclaims the Observer. "It's a road trip through vernacular American music, dustbowl blues, gospel, folk and bluegrass in the company of three unlikely characters ... It sounds a little like Animal Farm as conceived by Woody Guthrie, or Bruce Springsteen's take on Wind in the Willows."

Musician Taylor Ho Bynum, a friend of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's, reflects on the late singer.

David Byrne stops by New York public radio station WNYC to talk with Soundcheck host John Schaefer about creativity, copyright, and why he’s written a song cycle about Imelda Marcos. Byrne's Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall starts this Thursday, February 1.

Read along to the full lyrics of Randy Newman's "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country" while watching Randy performing the song live on video. An abridged version of the lyrics appeared in today's New York Times. A recording of the song is now available exclusively at iTunes.

Wilco is currently wrapping up work on a new studio album entitled Sky Blue Sky, which will be released on Nonesuch May 15. It is the first studio album since the group's 2004 Grammy Award–winning record, A ghost is born, and the first newly written and recorded material to feature the now firmly established band line-up of Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Glenn Kotche, Mike Jorgensen, Nels Cline, and Pat Sansone.

Listen to Caetano Veloso's new album Cê and watch video interviews with Caetano and his band.