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Lead singer/guitarist Pat DiNizio and drummer Dennis Diken from the band The Smithereens. Their new album, Meet the Smithereens, is a track-by-track homage to the Beatles' Meet the Beatles.

Christian rockers Jars of Clay have sold 5 million albums since their 1995 debut. Their latest album, The Eleventh Hour, is just as spiritual as their previous efforts, but the message is more complex and subtle. The band talks with Scott Simon on Weekend Edition Saturday. (13:00)

For most of four decades, bandleader Guy Lombardo practically owned New Year's Eve. Commentator Mal Sharpe recalls the era of "Mr. New Year's Eve" -- and a Boston band offers a new New Year's Eve tune to replace "Auld Lang Syne."

Banning Eyre has a review of the new record from Bembeya Jazz. The group is back together after 14 years, adding to the roster of reunited African pop bands from the 1960s.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the debut album by the Eagles of Death Metal called Peace Love Death Metal. The group's drummer is Josh Homme, the singer-guitarist of the hard-rock band Queens of the Stone Age.

The group Magnetic Fields' latest release is called I. Fans of the band say that even though the lead singer sounds like a moping adolescent, the songwriting is sophisticated. Critic Tom Moon has a review.

The band's original members from 1972 are back with a new album, Santana IV.

Favorite session performances from opbmusic including Portland band MAITA, Flock of Dimes, Bonny Light Horseman, Nilufer Yanya, and Tank and the Bangas

As a big band leader in the 40s and 50s, McShann helped start the careers of jazz stars like Charlie Parker and Big Joe Turner. He performs When I Grow To Old To Dream. (rebroadcast from 10

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews Carambola, the new CD from composer Chico OFarrill, who is also the leader of the Afro-Cuban Jazz Big Band in New York.