NPR: Music Podcast

Stories: 1) The Year of Musical Thinking, A Minute At A Time 2) Leroy Anderson: Master of the Miniature 3) Pain At The Pump Curbs Traveling Bands 4) Le Vent Du Nord's 400-Year-Old Musical Gems

Stories: 1) Victor Wooten: The 'Palmystery' of Deft Fingers 2) The Best CDs of 2008 (So Far) 3) Can Al Green Lay It Down Again?

Stories: 1) Peter Gabriel's 'Big Blue' Musical Mashup 2) Grupo Fantasma: 'Gold' Sounds of Latin Funk 3) Video Game Makers Push to License Beatles Songs 4) Al Green Lays 'It Down' 5) Portuguese Fado and a Few Dirty Tables

Story: Marin Alsop, meet Robert Schumann. The Baltimore Symphony conductor reconnects with the composer's symphonies, probing for a deeper meaning within this widely performed but still misunderstood music. The Symphony No. 2, Alsop says, traces Schumann's emotional frailty.

Stories: 1) Olivier Conan Brings Chicha Music to Brooklyn 2) L.A. Company Buys TV's Dance Classic 'Soul Train' 3) Kathleen Edwards: 'Flowers' and Hockey Skates 4) Inspired by a Trip to Vegas: 'I'll Fly Away'

Stories: 1) Weezer's Rivers Cuomo Tries Reinvention 2) Lili Haydn: Jimi Hendrix of the Violin 3) For T-Bone Burnett, the Play's the Thing 4) Kidd Jordan: Honoring a Jazz Patriarch 5) Sonic Youth: Story of a 'Kool Thing'

Stories: 1) New Site Fuses Chess with Hip-Hop 2) Jenny Scheinman Makes a Vocal Debut 3) Paul Thorn: Skydiver, Boxer, Rootsy Rocker 4) Sen. Lamar Alexander's 'Tennessee Waltz'

Stories: 1) Albert Ayler's Fiery Sax, Now on Film 2) Pakistani Rock Star's Roots in U.S. Metal 3) Poster Artist Alton Kelley Dies at 67 4) 'BPP' Jukebox: The Mates of State

Stories: 1) Rock Pioneer Bo Diddley Dies at 79 2) The Roots of Country Music 3) Be Your Own Pet: Teenage Abandon 4) Teitur: Pride of the Faroe Islands 5) Jeffrey Lewis: Anti-Folk Comic-Book Antihero

Story: The Latino vote could have a major impact in the presidential general election in November. In an attempt to appeal to younger Latino voters, Voto Latino, a voter registration group, is using popular music as part of its outreach. Rapper Armando Perez, a.k.a. "Pitbull," explains his role in the project.

Stories: 1) Jamshied Sharifi: The World's Music as 'One' 2) Music Archived for Eternity

Stories: 1) Jamshied Sharifi: The World's Music as 'One' 2) Music Archived for Eternity

Stories: 1) The Musical 'Seeds' of Jesca Hoop 2) Marley's 'Exodus' 30 Years Later 3) Mick Jagger: A Stone Alone 4) Computer Program Is a Virtual Music Teacher 5) Robert Plant, Meet Alison Krauss 6) Jonathan Butler on His Artistic Journey

Stories: 1) The White Stripes: Collaboration, 'Conquest' 2) Sam Cooke's Swan Song of Protest 3) 'Coyotes and Cowboys': Home on the Range 4) 'Rolling Stone' Names M.I.A. Top Album

Stories: 1) Made in China: Hip-Hop Moves East 2) New Trends Emerge in NPR Music Poll 3) 18 Hours of Christmas Music: My Holiday Hellride