Carmel Holt

It's not often you find a band with three lead singers who each sound as impressive on their own as they do together.

A power trio of an entirely different kind, the Houston band led a journey through globally-influenced funk, jazz, surf and psych-rock — before creating a live, instrumental hip-hop mixtape.

The Nashville-by-way-of-Brooklyn band repeatedly took the Newport audience from joyful, foot-stomping singalongs, to a rapturous hush.

Slingshot is a project by NPR Music to highlight emerging artists. Bedouine was born in Aleppo, Syria, and has moved around a lot, but her music is rooted in the country folk rock of the 60s and 70s.

The soul singer has been performing spoken word poetry since she was in high school. Watch her perform an original piece, live in the studio.

The indie-rock band's frontwoman talks life on the road, childhood guitar lessons, and hearing her band's sophomore albumin a coffee shop in this interview with WFUV.

The irresistible groove of "Cream On Chrome" proves that with a propulsive beat, hooky guitars and a touch of synthesizer, instrumentals can be earworms, too.