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When Panic at the Disco released its debut CD, its members hadn't yet graduated from high school. Three years later, Pretty. Odd marks the band's massive change from heart-on-sleeve emo-punk songs to Sgt. Pepper's-style rock. The group performs stripped-down songs in NPR's Studio 4A.

You may not recognize the name James Hand, but that's just because you've never heard anything like him. The 57-year-old Texan has been in hidden away in country music scene for years, and if his third album Shadow of the Ground shows his age, critic Ken Tucker says it's just that Hand doesn't care what you think.

How to begin a musical about a barber who slashes his customers' throats and a baker who grinds up their corpses to fill her meat pies? If you're director Tim Burton, you start by raining blood from the skies.

In Caracas, emotions run high and there's noise to match. Supporters of both major candidates for Venezuela's president have created soundtracks that are a constant presence on the city's streets.

With so much going on culturally speaking in our region, this is my highly selective, curated snapshot of some of the most promising events happening this weekend.

Suddenly, everyone in New York is violently suicidal — and the impulse seems to be spreading. The latest far-fetched frightfest from M. Night Shyamalan boasts a nifty setup — but the payoff is decidedly problematic.

In addition to his music career, Gilley was also famous for being the face of a nightclub that pushed Texas cowboy culture into a global spotlight.

Hazmat Modine is a New York band fronted by two harmonica players. Their repertoire starts with blues and branches into various genres of Americana, but always with a difference: tuba bass lines, lacings of Eastern European hammer dulcimer, or Tuvan throat singing. The group's debut CD is Bahamut — reviewer Banning Eyre says its charm lies in how it lends an air of mystery and other-worldliness to familiar sounds.

Bhangra, the folk music of the Punjab, has become wildly popular in dance clubs around the world. The scene's roving ambassador, DJ Rekha, has been throwing a party called Basement Bhangra at a New York City club for a decade, but she's just now putting out her first CD.

The New York band, known for its wild performances on subway platforms, abandons its comfort zone in an effort to explore new sounds and recording methods.