Craig Havighurst

In this episode: When musician Phil Everly died last week at age 74, the music world paused to reflect on The Everly Brothers. The Everly's songs can be moving, eerie, and often subtle -- so subtle, in fact, that it can be easy to underestimate the impact that music had on the rock, pop, and folk that would follow in their footsteps. Craig Havighurst, the Nashville-based journalist and co-host of the Americana radio show Music City Roots, traces the duo's lasting musical legacy.

Then: Songwriter Jordan Lee runs Brooklyn's Kassette Klub label and leads Mutual Benefit, which on any given day could be a one-man-band or a full-on collective. Following two cassette releases, Mutual Benefit released its first proper album, Love's Crushing Diamond, and performs songs from it in the Soundcheck studio.

And: Eliot van Buskirk, editor of Evolver.fm, tells us why the time is ripe for a home audio revolution.

In this episode: Comedian and How Was Your Week host Julie Klausner and remixer extrordinaire Evan Gregory weigh in on the Remix The Mayor challenge submissions, and pick their favorites.

Then, as country music becomes increasingly pop-oriented, tensions have risen between the genre’s new artists and legacy acts. Writer Grady Smith and radio host and author Craig Havighurst talk about Nashville’s brewing not-so-civil war.

And the high-concept hip hop supergroup Deltron 3030 -- made up of rapper Del the Funky Homosapien, Kid Koala and producer Dan the Automator --perform tracks off of their long-awaited new album, Event II.

The ABC drama Nashville has taken TV screens by storm thanks to its fairly soapy-but-realistic depiction of two country music stars, the Nashville music industry, and some great original music. Today on Soundcheck we take a look at life in the so-called "Music City" with Kim Severson, who recently profiled Nashville for The New York Times, and Craig Havighurst, a journalist and producer\co-host of the local radio program Music City Roots.

And The Lone Bellow is poised for a breakout in 2013, with its debut album due later this month. We hear an in-studio performance from the Southern-born, Brooklyn-based group.

In this week's Arts File, Lance Luckey speaks with independent radio producer Craig Havighurst about a recent raid of Gibson Guitar by the Justice Department.