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For more than 20 years, the alt-rock duo They Might Be Giants has been playing clever and contagious music for fans of all ages. Winning over college campuses and preschools simultaneously, TMBG has never compromised the quirky lyrics and eclectic sound for which it's loved.

Electric City is the name of a new animated science-fiction series created by — and starring — Tom Hanks. It's being promoted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in part because it'll be shown on the Internet site Yahoo this spring.

For this week's Throwback Thursday, Katie Presley and intern Julian Ring share their favorite old All Songs Considered memories.

WXPN's Michaela Majoun talks to Thorn about the real-life inspiration for her recent release, Love and Its Opposite. The disc is her second solo album after her band, Everything but the Girl, went on hiatus in 2000. The British singer-songwriter performs some of the new songs live on World Cafe.

"II" starts with the adventurous guitarist sliding and picking in a delicate metallic meandering. Then the strings get strummed like they're a dirty floor -- and Metzger's the man with the soapy brush.

The Pentagon has released a memo detailing a planned November extravaganza with "no tanks," Washington, D.C., officials should be relieved to learn. City streets can't take the weight.

Paging Agent Mulder...

Journalist Stephen Kiernan's new book is Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System. Kiernan writes that doctors are not well-trained in end of life procedures, and that half of those who die in hospitals suffer untreated pain, while those in nursing homes risk abuse and personal bankruptcy. Based in New England, Kiernan has written for the Boston Globe, the Burlington Free Press and other publications. He received the George Polk Award for medical reporting and the Joseph Breckner Center's Freedom of Information Award.

Short story master Alice Munro would be justified in resting on her laurels at this point in her career — she's won Canada's Governor General's Literary Award three times, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. But in her new collection of stories, called The View from Castle Rock, Munro veers off into a fresh direction — exploring family history through fact and fiction.

NPR wants to hear from people who feel there are issues that have popular support yet cannot pass through Congress. What are those issues? And why do they matter to you?