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Norwegian pop singer Ane Brun performs with Gemma Ray at Bowery Ballroom on Monday night. Download her catchy single "Do You Remember." 

One of the music industry’s brightest stars was missing as the country’s top recording artists gathered at last night’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The tragic death of pop powerhouse Whitney Houston on Saturday, at the age of 48, shocked the music industry and the world. Houston brought gospel tones to mainstream R&B. Her vibrant voice and unparalleled range made her a mainstay of pop superstardom throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Pop legend Petula Clark talks about making her first New York nightclub engagement since the 1970s at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. She has sold over 70 million records since the 1950s and is known for her hits “Downtown,” “I Know A Place,” “Don’t Sleep In The Subway,” in addition to leading film and stage roles.

The synth-pop group Plushgun is back in the neighborhood that started it all -- at the Williamsburg Knitting Factory with sweet hooks and clever lyrics. Download "Just Impolite" for free here.

Sasha Frere-Jones, pop music critic for the New Yorker magazine, compares the current leading ladies of pop. 

Don Kirshner, the Bronx music publisher, producer and television host who saw promise in musicians who spanned decades and genres, passed away on Monday of heart failure at the age of 76 in Boca Raton, Florida.

'Our first cactus was in B flat' says Jason Treuting. And so goes Kurt's conversation with Matmos and So Percussion, two bands who've come together to make Treasure State, an album made using the sounds of aluminum sheets, pails of water and yes, a cactus.