Manufacturing can help show how the rest of the economy is doing. So we ask the No BS! Brass Band to turn the last four years of manufacturing numbers into musical notes.

A new album puts a Serbian band's wild, genre-bending flair on full display.

Sunny Jain, who leads the nine-member ensemble, says that while its instrumentation is limited 鈥� just horns and percussion 鈥� its energy is "like that of a rock band."

In New Orleans, music is a daily practice, a fantasy and forum for community building. In recent months, a sound-based art installation called The Music Box has been making those ideas into an experience.