Today, our staff's song pick of the week comes from NPR's Tony Cox.

NPR: A Jazz Single Sees One Man Through

Tony's song pick of the week, "X Marks the Spot, " by Joe Sample.

NPR: A Jazz Single Sees One Man Through

It's time now for our Staff Song Pick of the Week.

NPR: A College Dream Inspired by a Song

Time now for our Song Pick of the Week.

NPR: Ornette Coleman's Challenging Sound

The latest expression of Afro-Latino culture is the best-selling song on iTunes this week.

NPR: The Music Of Africa, By Way Of Latin America

Such blinkered reverence is at odds with the world in which the Beatles and Bond came to stardom, when the spending power of neophyte teenagers dominated pop culture and a song or movie could be top of the pops or a box office hit one week and gone the next.

CNN: Beatles and Bond: Half a century on, can we now let them be?