It wasn’t an easy road to bringing music and animation together. In the days before sound and image became one, theaters had live accompanists…or films were simply silent. But in the late 1920s, New York-based Fleischer Studios - whose work includes Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman - revolutionized the genre. We’ll hear how this family-run animation studio pioneered many practices, some of which are still used today. Guests include Daniel Goldmark, author “Tunes for ‘Toons: Music and the Hollywood Cartoon” and Will Friedwald, author of "A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers."

On his third album, “Kaiso,” Trinidadian trumpeter Etienne Charles blends his native country’s traditional calypso with the jazz that he studied at Berklee and Julliard. He’ll bring the sounds of Carnival to the studio as he joins us with his band to perform takes on Caribbean classics.

Libyan-American hip-hop artist Khaled M is celebrating the news that rebel forces have entered Tripoli with new music. For a few months, the rapper has been recording his first music video, an upbeat song titled “Lights Out.”  But he decided that it wasn’t appropriate to release feel-good music until Qaddafi was out of power.

Tuesday night, Jones Street Station brings Americana-infused harmonies and instruments small and large to Brooklyn Bowl.

Cartoon music is some of the earliest music we hear.

YouTube sensation Julia Nunes brings her ukulele and charisma to Webster Hall Monday night. Download her "I Think You Know" here.