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Fans who discovered the Swedish singer's vulnerable voice on a Twilight movie soundtrack might be surprised to hear her more provocative sound on the new Wounded Rhymes.

The British rock group released one of the best songs of the 1990s, "Sit Down." Now, almost 30 years after they first got together, the Brits are back. Listen to an interview with songwriter Tim Booth and live songs recorded at World Cafe Live.

Tucker, a founding member of the band Sleater-Kinney, is back with a new group, The Corin Tucker Band, and an album called 1,000 Years. Rock critic Ken Tucker says the record has an "air of heavy but often beautiful melancholy."

The singer's powerful vocals, which have been compared to those of Edith Piaf and Maria Callas, grab the listener's attention. But in an interview with Lynn Neary, she says her instrumentation and image complete her art.

On the new album The Hills Are Alive, the group overhauls Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic by putting its own influences on shuffle mode.

Ted Leo wrote the song for a new compilation benefiting a Ukraine non-profit organization.

People who are 50 and older and certain immunocompromised individuals may get a second Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine booster four months after they received the first.

Some cities are so shorthanded they have temporarily stopped collecting things like recyclables or oversized junk to focus on the grosser, smellier stuff.

Photographer Raphael Alves documented how socioeconomic issues worsen the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

The 1980s group Squeeze set a standard for British pop music that still sounds fresh today. Former frontman Glenn Tilbrook is now a one-man standard-bearer, and he's just released his third solo CD, Transatlantic Ping Pong. He speaks with NPR's Brian Naylor.