May 7, 2013  |   More with Patrick Loughney, executive director of the Libarary of Congress' National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, and Gene DeAnna, head of the recorded sound section.

March 14, 2013  |   Arlo Guthrie, son of folk legend Woody Guthrie, played his first gig at 13, performs all over the world and runs his own record label. But while the younger Guthrie found his own sound and subject matter, he has never forgotten his roots or forsaken his father's legacy as a great source for lessons in music and life.

December 11, 2012  |   Extended interviews, slide show: "Ai Weiwei: According to What?" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

October 18, 2012  |   Samantha Crain is not a singer-songwriter who limits herself to a single genre or even, as she put it, a single place. "I love touring and I travel even whenever I'm not on tour. It's a bad habit," she told Art Beat before a recent concert at the Rock and Roll Hotel in Washington, D.C.

August 7, 2012  |   It's hard to categorize Battles' sound -- so hard that even they don't like to.

April 26, 2012  |   What do Ethiopian jazz, American funk and soul, and '70s rock 'n' roll have in common? Its the sound of the Budos Band.

March 21, 2012  |   Fiddle and banjo music today can seem antiquated, pulled from a time capsule of early Americana, but the Carolina Chocolate Drops want you to know they are more than just a young band with an old-time sound.

February 15, 2012  |   "The Art of Google Books" is a Tumblr blog that showcases errors and anomalies found in the digital pages of Google Books. Krissy Wilson, the creator of the blog and a student at the University of Florida, sifts through scanned pages on Google Books searching for visible signs of the digitizing process