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As Santana turns 70, he's still spreading the message that music has the power to heal. With The Isley Brothers, he taps into the peaceful spirit of Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)."

A round of reissues for Mary Timony's old band Helium comes with a cleaned-up version of the "XXX" video, proving that the art of the moody, attitude-filled music video peaked in the 1990s.

Conor Oberst's agitated, political punk band returns with its first album in 13 years — just in time to respond to a new generation of outrage-inducing headlines.

Where Manchester rock band WU LYF skirted a continuum of post-rock and art-rock, the new song by its former member is quite the opposite sound.

The keyboardist and singer was a co-founder of both the Meters and the Neville Brothers — bands that took the funk and swagger of New Orleans to a much larger world.

For NPR's "One-Hit Wonders/Second-Best Songs," NPR Music's Stephen Thompson recommends "Happiness Writes White" by the band Harvey Danger. The band is known mostly for their 1997 hit "Flagpole Sitta."

After the chaos, warfare and corruption of the past several years in their native country, the Tuareg guitar gods deliver a more bitter message.

Released in 1972, The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street was a fat collection of rock 'n' roll at its roughest and bluesiest. Nearly four decades later, it's a classic. In the center of the veritable circus surrounding the band was Keith Richards' villa in the south of France, where the album was recorded.

The Death Cab for Cutie frontman recently released his first solo album, which he says spans eight years, three relationships and two hometowns' worth of songwriting.

"Sam Rivers wasn't just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound," Limp Bizkit said in a social media post Saturday.