ASCAP - the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers - was founded on Feb. 13, 1914, to protect its members' copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music. It hasn't been an easy century; in fact, just about every victory has come as the result of litigation.

Daft Punk picked up trophies for album and record of the year, Lorde won two awards for "Royals," and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis took home four, including Best New Artist.

Among other things, Daft Punk is up for Album of the Year, the Beatles will get a Lifetime Achievement award and Madonna and Beyoncé might perform together.

The award is granted once every four years to a pianist with exceptional qualities, chosen by a secretive committee. This time, a young Polish musician who specializes in Chopin has earned the generous $300,000 prize.

Sisters Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz aren't the youngest musicians ever to play the Tiny Desk, but they come pretty close. Their music - a restrained, homespun mix of folk and pop with undeniably sweet harmonies - certainly ranks among the loveliest to grace the NPR Music offices.

A master of the Brazilian version of the mandolin, Hamilton de Holanda is determined to show the world what the instrument can do - and he's found friends in disparate musical worlds who are helping him prove is point.

Whatever actually happened to musician Boujemaa Razgui's collection of handmade flutes, it's a reminder not to put precious items in your checked luggage.

A new nine-hour box set, titled "Sun Country Box: 1950-1959", collects Sun Records' country output.

WFYI's Scott Hoke has a conversation with The von Trapp Family Singers, great-grand-children of Capt. Georg and Maria von Trapp whose story inspired "The Sound of Music."

The story of 2013's wild-haired teenage pop phenomenon has more than a few parallels with the 1991 emergence of grunge kingpins Nirvana, but recast for the millennial age.