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Be Your Own Pet's music has been described as punk, garage rock and just plain fun. It certainly hits all the right notes, with songs about zombies and food fights. But three songs on the band's second CD, Get Awkward, were deemed too violent for U.S. distribution by executives at its label.

New York City's Vision Festival honors New Orleans saxophonist Kidd Jordan Wednesday night. He still remains unknown outside avant-garde jazz circles, but Jordan says that doesn't matter. Staying true to his roots, Jordan teaches music in his hometown, where many of jazz's elite players have studied under him.

The son of folk-rockers Richard and Linda Thompson says he didn't listen to any music made after 1959 until he was 16. But his new album furthers his folk and country roots with some of the contemporary sounds he's grown to like.

Tillman Hall has more than $12 million in deferred maintenance.

Marin Alsop, meet Robert Schumann. The Baltimore Symphony conductor reconnects with the composer's symphonies, probing for a deeper meaning within this widely performed but still misunderstood music. The Symphony No. 2, Alsop says, traces Schumann's emotional frailty.

Since its 1994 debut, the hook-heavy rock band Weezer has sold 10 million records and cultivated a devoted following for its guitar-based power-pop. Frontman Rivers Cuomo discusses the band's latest self-titled record, known as The Red Album.

Carmen Rita Wong's mother was Dominican and father was Chinese, or so she thought. In her memoir, Why Didn't You Tell Me, she reckons with the truth that was kept from her for 31 years.

The Jan. 6 committee revealed how Trump supporters' anger built into the violence during the riot, and showed how Trump and some of his closest allies used conspiracy theories to stoke their rage.

A group of men in India were recently arrested for putting on bogus professional cricket matches and duping bettors in Russia.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Colleen McNicholas, who works for Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, following her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.