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Brooklyn quartet the Cloud Room offers tight, melodic indie rock sure to please fans of breakout artists like Interpol and the Killers. Their "Hey Now Now" has been dubbed "one of the great alt-pop singles of the first half of 2005" by the All-Music Guide.

The Booker Prize will be announced this coming Tuesday. One of the leading contenders is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. With an experimental structure that incorporates six novellas, the question is whether this is a stunt or a true literary breakthrough. Martha Woodroof of member station WMRA reports.

Nearly three months after the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq, insurgents continue to disrupt the interim government's efforts to achieve control. Hear NPR's Scott Simon, Bathsheba Crocker of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Gen. William Nash of the Council on Foreign Relations.

A team claiming to have spied the earliest moments of the universe may have actually seen little more than galactic dust.

Oregon's economy continues to flourish, but the long-term outlook isn't as rosy. That was the message to lawmakers Wednesday from state economists, who...

Frightened Rabbit's lyrical themes of heartbreak, disease, death and suicide might seem overbearing, but as evident in this session from KEXP, there's a cathartic quality to the band's songs. Frontman Scott Hutchinson also talks about the band's reflective side.

Experts say the services companies like Crowdstrike supply are in the hands of too few providers that are themselves too interconnected.

After the results of the November election, more than half of U.S. states have now authorized medical marijuana. And eight of those states also allow...

Our shortlist of the week's best new albums includes a career-defining release from singer Jamila Woods, the sparkling guitar rock of Charly Bliss and Holly Herndon's genius work with the AI "Spawn."

Our shortlist of the best new albums out this week includes a visionary work from The National, the pop wisdom of Carly Rae Jepsen and the raw and defiant sounds of Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion.