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Danilo Pérez got his start playing piano with Dizzy Gillespie. The celebrated composer's latest project is an ambitious one: 500 years of trade, exploration and colonization represented in music.

Not all the nominees at Sunday's Academy Awards will walk away with a gold statuette, but they will all get a DrainWig.

A little song that went missing 140 years ago has just been rediscovered. Hear a performance of this charming 29-bar song from the BBC.

David Schmitz was more than surprised when he was invited on a local Des Moines, Iowa, radio show and received a surprise gift from his late wife, Brenda.

It's getting close to Super Bowl time, so here's a little fantasy. What would happen if a British sports announcer who has no idea how American football works (not a clue) were suddenly thrown on the air and had to do play-by-play for a game between Alabama and Notre Dame? He knows nothing. What would he say?

An early draft of Bruce Springsteen's lyrics for his first big hit song "Born to Run" sold for $197,000 at auction earlier this month. What made it so great?

A clever photography trick allows you to see the invisible: the rising heat from a lighter, the turbulence around airplane wings, the plume of a sneeze ... and even sound waves.

The eclectic approach of Jocie Adams' former band is amply present in her solo debut. Arc Iris showcases Adams' unique singing voice and supports it with cello, banjo, brass and more.

The jangly, odd-ball single perfectly sums up reasons Franz Ferdinand made it into our hearts. Now it's got a new video, from the director who made the band's breakout clip, "Take Me Out."

Journalist Glenn Greenwald said "NSA leaker" Edward Snowden collected thousands of documents to prove that what he is revealing is true. Some of them, Greenwald told The Associated Press, show exactly how the U.S. spy agency works.