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"Rough. Funny. Expansive." That's how critic Greil Marcus described The Clash's album on our program in 1980. We brought him back to ask if he stands by his original review.

Music historian James Karst explains his recent research into the early life of the legendary Louis Armstrong.

Ted has always preferred creating spaces where jazz can be heard up close. With that attitude in hand, he and his wife reopened an historic building in Jersey City - The Statuary, as a performance space, where this recording was captured.

Redbone's career was defined by biographical mystery and a musical ear obsessed with the sounds of yesteryear. He also sang the theme to Mr. Belvedere.

Amanda Gustafson and Eric Olsen of Swale's song "If You Get Lost" is a standout entry from this year's Tiny Desk Contest.

A German official said that because of a recent rise in attacks, he couldn't recommend Jews wear the skullcap "at every time and place." So daily newspaper Bild created a do-it-yourself paper kippah.

For Chris Bubenik of Asheville, N.C., Lisa Loeb's "Stay (I Missed You)" is an "amazing opus about finding yourself."

Today, Franklin's recording of "Respect" is definitive. But when she recorded it on Valentine's Day 1967, it was a radical gender-bending of Otis Redding's original.

An expectant mom got a $750 bill for a blood test to check for genetic abnormalities in her baby. Then she tried to figure out why it was so high.

A federal drug program blocks rural hospitals from getting discounts on rare-disease drugs, forcing staff to cut back on supplies of lifesaving medicines.