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NPR's Scott Simon talks with January 6th committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin about the investigation and where it's headed next.

Earlier this summer, a new band called The Velvet Sundown released two albums back-to-back. All the music was AI-generated.

The 23rd annual South by Southwest music festival gets under way in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday. One of this year's most widely anticipated shows comes from a well-known band: The Decemberists. The band will perform its new album, The Hazards of Love, in its entirety.

After the more than 15 years together, the five-piece Canadian band Barenaked Ladies is having a first. They are releasing their latest album, Barenaked Ladies Are Me, on their own record label. Two members of the band, Steven Page and Kevin Hearn, elaborate.

A bunch of friends from high school form a rock band, united by the dream of getting heard -- and against long odds, it happens. But then comes the rock 'n' roll nightmare: After a first flash of exposure, the band spends the next few years trying to replicate its success. This could have happened to the Walkmen, which formed when most of its members were in high school, at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. A Hundred Miles Off, the third Walkmen CD, came out recently.

As listeners vote in our online poll for the year's best music, All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen sees three emerging trends: more bands from Canada, more bands from Sweden and an obsession with animals.

By running a 1997 Chevy van on old vegetable oil, the funk band Patio Kings saves money and the environment during a 25-city tour. NPR's Petra Mayer takes a ride on the van.

This rule means more truck manufacturers will have to make cleaner vehicles with the aim of reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution.

People in lower-income communities are more likely to die of colon cancer, often because they don't get diagnosed early enough. Those premature deaths take a financial toll, too.

The city has reached a multi-million dollar settlement with the family of the unarmed black man shot and killed by a white police officer in April.