Live In Concert From Npr's All Songs Considered

The New York City synth-rock duo of singer Madeline Follin and keyboardist Brian Oblivion expanded to a raucous five-piece band for NPR Music's Oct. 16 showcase at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York. Watch a nine-song set including cuts from the new album, Static, just one day after its release. "High Road" "Slow Song" "Abducted" "Always Forever" "Were Before" "You Know What I Mean" "I Can Hardly Make You Mine" "Go Outside" "Keep Your Head Up"

The chart-topping rapper pulled no punches during his performance at NPR Music's showcase in New York City on Wednesday night. Watch Pusha T perform a 17-song set that ranged from his work with Kanye West to his critically acclaimed new album, My Name Is My Name. "King Push" "Blocka" "Millions" "Hold On" "Suicide" "So Appalled" "Mercy" "Cook It Down" "My God" "Exodus 23:1" "I Don't Like" "New God Flow" "Pain" "Nosetalgia" "Sweet Serenade" "Numbers On The Board" "40 Acres"

Volcano Choir is known in no small part for its frontman Justin Vernon, an artist who built legions of fans recording as Bon Iver. But Volcano Choir isn't a Bon Iver side project. Hear the band give a transfixing performance, recorded live at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. "Tiderays" "Island, IS" "Comrade" "The Valleyinaire" "Keel" "Dancepack" "Blue Ni Ni (The Volcano Schores)" "Alaskans" "Acetate" "Byegone"

Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent have spent the last decade or so singing sweetly, rowdily anthemic folk-country music together, most recently under the name Shovels & Rope. Hear them perform as part of the 2013 Newport Folk Festival. "Keeper" "Cavalier" "Shank Hill Street" "When I" "O' Be Joyful" "Kemba's Got The Cabbage Moth Blues" "Forsaken Blues" "Gasoline" "Tell The Truth" "Hail Hail" "Birmingham"

Hear Amanda Palmer recorded live in concert from the 2013 Newport Folk Festival.

A young, Niger-born Tuareg guitarist inspired by the wizardry of Saharan rock bands like Tinariwen, Omar Moctar (a.k.a. Bombino) has helped make African music more relatable to U.S. Watch Bombino perform as part of the 2013 Newport Folk Festival. "Amidinine"  "Her Tenere"  "Tar Hani (My Love)"  "Iyat Idounia Ayashen (Another Life)"  "Aman"  "Kammou Taliat (You, My Beloved)"  "Amidinine" (reprise)

The rising Brooklyn folk-pop band infuses its songs with charm, radiant hooks and intense emotions. Formed as a creative outlet for singer Zach Williams as his wife recovered from an accident that nearly paralyzed her, The Lone Bellow performs with a sense of necessity. Hear the band perform as part of the 2013 Newport Folk Festival. "You Can Be All Kinds Of Emotional"  "You Never Need Nobody"  "Two Sides Of Lonely" "Tree To Grow"  "Green Eyes And A Heart Of Gold"  "You Don't Love Me Like You Used To"  "Watch Over Us"  "Looking For You"  "The One You Should've Let Go"  "Teach Me To Know"

Raised in Alabama and based in Brooklyn, Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck makes moody, searching, raggedly pretty music. But there's also a wise, homesick weariness to Houck's voice that transcends time and place. Watch Phosphorescent perform the cosmic country song "Ride On/Right On" at the 2013 Newport Folk Festival. "Terror In The Canyons (The Wounded Master)"  "The Quotidian Beasts"  "A New Anhedonia"  "Tell Me Baby (Have You Had Enough)"  "A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise"  "Song For Zula"  "Ride On / Right On"  "Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly)"  "Los Angeles"

Half Simon & Garfunkel and half Smothers Brothers, Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale's melancholic harmonies intertwine beautifully, while their playful, deadpan banter is worth the price of admission on its own. "Hope Of A Lifetime"  "The Ash & Clay"  "Honey, Honey"  "Charlie" "Michigan"  "Girls, Gather 'Round'  "New York"  "Snake Eyes"  "I Still Want A Little More"  "Memphis" 

It's not a stretch to call U.K. singer-songwriter Frank Turner a folksinger, especially when he performs solo with an acoustic guitar. But he's also a rocker, a punk and a storyteller. Hear Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls perform as part of the 2013 Newport Folk Festival "Four Simple Words"  "If Ever I Stray"  "Try This At Home"  "Losing Days"  "Glory Hallelujah"  "The Way I Tend To Be"  "Wessex Boy"  "Substitute"  "Wherefore Art Thou, Gene Simmons?"  "The Road"  "Peggy Sang The Blues"  "Recovery"  "I Still Believe"  "Photosynthesis"

Icelandic composer and piano player Olafur Arnalds managed to squeeze a 28 piece orchestra onto the stage of Le Poisson Rouge...a nightclub in Greenwich Village. The orchestra is known as The LPR Ensemble and the music made that evening was simply magical.

Sinewy and powerful as ever, and backed by his longtime band, Nick Cave works the crowd like a revival preacher at half-speed during NPR Music's SXSW showcase at Stubb's in Austin, Texas.  Here are 3 songs from the set: "Jubilee Street" - "From Her To Eternity" and "Push The Sky Away."

Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield was tucked in a back room at Stubb's during SXSW on March 14.  She opened her 25-minute set with a string of fragile solo songs, each more delicate than the last. This was interior music, made of guts and nerves and other viscera we don't share easily.

An easy way to embrace Alt-J's idiosyncratic charm is to witness the band live; hear how often Joe Newman sings quietly and subtly, and get a feel for the prettiness at the core of Alt-J's songs.

Le1f is a New Yorker and Wesleyan graduate who raps, produces and happens to be observably out of the closet. His boundless, arty individuality pops out over every jittery beat; he stands out in virtually every possible way

Youth Lagoon's Trevor Powers is the band's sole member.  He layers strange but alluring synth textures under quirky melodies and simple pop beats, in the process creating an expansive and endlessly engrossing world of sonic curiosities.

Hear the psych-rock trio douse a sold-out Washington, D.C., crowd in an epic wash of guitar noise during an hour-long performance at the Rock and Roll Hotel.

Hear the trippy pop group give a thrilling, sometimes chaotic live performance at the Rock and Roll Hotel in Washington, D.C. Along the way, Foxygen channels everyone from The Velvet Underground to The Rolling Stones and Ramones.

Ritter's new album, The Beast in Its Tracks, is by any definition a breakup record; he wrote it following his own divorce, and every song finds him picking through a relationship's wreckage in pursuit of root causes and a way forward. Hear him perform the album's songs live from New York City.

The Los Angeles band, named after the patron saint of musicians, blends Latin styles such as cumbia, norteño and ranchera. Hear La Santa Cecilia, recorded live in concert from New York City's Webster Hall.