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A popsicle parade with Michael Hearst; Ambient Icelandic string quartet Amiina; 'Once' by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova; Bob Dylan covered by Bryan Ferry; Sublime jazz from the Tord Gustavsen Trio.

New music from The Decemberists, a classic from R.E.M., the strangely compelling Heligoats, more.

Classical violinist Mark O'Connor's boyhood hero was a country musician. O'Connor says that he'd spend hours on end learning the songs of Johnny Cash — and to this day, his great passion is the tune "Big River."

U.S. employers added 187,000 jobs in July, still marking a steady pace of growth. The unemployment rate edged down to 3.5%.

The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is regarded as a seminal album now, but when it came out in 1966, not many noticed. Watch a mini-documentary by those who made the record.

The group brings its playfully subversive style to the Tiny Desk.

David Oyelowo talks about playing Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oscar-nominated film Selma — as well as the LBJ controversy, slavery and how he learned about what it's like to be black in America.

"So much of what I've seen is, quite frankly, just deeply disturbing," U.S. aid chief Mark Green said after visiting a camp for Rohingya in Myanmar. For some, "this is the only reality they know."

NPR's Michel Martin talks to David Brooks of the New York Timesand E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution about the tax bill that Trump signed, and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner.

On Ash Wednesday, Christians hear the words "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return." Those words ring differently for many whose churches and homes burned in the Los Angeles fires.