Ultra City SmithsPicture a satirical noir musical series set in a decaying, '70s redolent metropolis as acted out with stop motion animated baby dolls and you've got this audacious AMC miniseries from "Patriot" creator Steve Conrad. Can cops Mills (voiced by Jimmi Simpson) and Johnson (Da'Vine Joy Randolph) crack the disappearance of a mayoral candidate (Kurtwood Smith)? Also with the voices of Luis Guzmn, Debra Winger, Damon Herriman, Kristen Bell, Dax Shepard, John

he was the son of a vaudeville entertainer and came to music early

with this tenth volume of the series

All of it is eminently hummable and thought-provoking

Simon Williams (Upstairs

the wind bands of the Imperial court

a song based on the evocative names of German synthesisers

the film is a portrait of an unpretentious artist who has decisively shaped the classical music world for decades and continues to do so to this day

Sam Yahel and Eric Alexander

This debut recording with piano works by Prokofiev

always struggling to fit in to new schools and having to push on just when he'd started to set down roots

Is the latest album from Caspar Babypants (the alter-ego of Chris Ballew

" "Going to New York