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The critically acclaimed rock group Band of Horses has roots in South Carolina. But the band formed, made its name and recorded its first CD in Seattle. Now its members are back in the Palmetto State, and back with a new album called Cease to Begin.

One of the most controversial and acclaimed singers of the last 20 years, O'Connor continues to deny convention and expectations. Hear an interview and in-studio performance by the fiercely uncompromising singer-songwriter.

Citing Bob Dylan and Neil Young as influences, the 26-year-old Irish singer is a master of simple folk songs that focus on his gentle voice and guitar. Regan was raised in a family of musicians, who instilled in him a love of early folk and blues that continues to pervade his music.

Ballet dancer Carlos Acosta is known for powerful leaps that make him seem to fly. Those leaps have earned him comparisons with Nureyev and Baryshnikov. He grew up in a poor neighborhood outside Havana. How that boy became a man who dances with grace and power is the subject of Acosta's memoir, No Way Home.

In Diary of a Wimpy Kid by author and illustrator Jeff Kinney, the most mundane details of a middle school student's life are uproarious. Kinney's illustrated diaries remind readers about the dramas of junior high.

Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn break down the components of their electro-folk sound and share songs by some of the other artists who've inspired them.

Hear five pioneering examples of women who composed for and directed their own groups.

Lost your groove mid-project? Kelsey Cunningham has the cure. And it might be karaoke.

In her new book The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, author Natalie Angier says science doesn't have to be impossible, impenetrable or uncool.

This week marks 155 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered the famously short Gettysburg Address in 1863.