Jacob Ganz

Prine will release The Tree of Forgiveness on April 13. The first song from the album, "Summer's End," is classic Prine, a portrait of the true weight a relationship accrues as time passes.

The British singer also won Best New Artist and Record of the Year, for "Stay With Me." Beck won Album of the Year for his subdued, folky Morning Phase.

A pinch of melody, a dash of groove. Pop music is built on making a song sound just new enough to be intriguing. So what happens when one song sounds a little too familiar?

The Danish band Efterklang literally went to the ends of the earth — an arctic island 400 miles north of mainland Europe, to be exact — to make its album Piramida.

A report says there's reason to be optimistic about the market for recorded music around the world.

Call it diversity or a lack of consensus, but no single act dominated this year's awards. Instead, the Grammys spread the love, though rock bands — including The Black Keys and fun. — fared well.

Page had one of the biggest-selling singles ever with her version of "The Tennessee Waltz."

We're still in the final stages of making our list, but we agree enough on a few albums to share this preview of NPR Music's favorite albums of the year. Audie Cornish talks to Frannie Kelley, Stephen Thompson and Tom Huizenga.

How the tiny digital file took down the mighty CD and came to dominate the music industry.

As summer fades, we bid an official farewell to the year's biggest pop hit, Gotye's unlikely smash, "Somebody That I Used To Know."