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The previously unreleased track from her upcoming album, The Rarities, interpolates The Fugees' 1996 cover of "Killing Me Softly."

The Unite the Right rally and subsequent counterprotests in the band's hometown of Charlottesville, Va. inspired the duo's latest release, Line of Light.

You get a variety of date palm tree that had been extinct for more than a century. Scientists in Israel hope that "Hannah" will flower and be pollinated by a male tree named "Methuselah."

Record producer Gregory Page was sitting in the back office of an Ocean Beach coffee shop called Java Joe's on an open-mic night when he heard what he thought was a female singer with a beautiful voice. He went into the shop and discovered that the voice belonged to a man: a folk singer and songwriter named Tom Brosseau.

For the first time ever, scientists from around the world convened a meeting dedicated solely to animal acoustics -- how animals use sound. NPR's Christopher Joyce attended the meeting and reports on what scientists were listening for, and why.

Hear brand new cuts from The Black Keys and Swans, plus our latest musical discoveries, including singer Dylan Shearer, who channels Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd.

From Argentine improvisations to the dark night of a Viennese songwriter, NPR Music's Tom Huizenga and host Guy Raz spin a multifarious mix of new releases.

In 1944, Brave New World author Aldous Huxley wrote his first and only children's book. It's called The Crows of Pearblossom and it isn't for the faint of heart. Daniel Pinkwater, our ambassador to the world of kid's lit, joins NPR's Scott Simon to discuss the book's newly illustrated re-release.

Cindy Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall's Laverne on the popular sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," has died, her family said Monday.

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the first moon walk, host Scott Simon speaks with author Andrew Chaikin and astronaut Alan Bean. Together, they have written and illustrated a book for children and young adults called Mission Control, This Is Apollo. Alan Bean was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, and was the fourth man to walk on the moon.