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The Derailers, an Austin-based alternative country band, call themselves "door-to-door honky-tonk salesmen." They tour non-stop, playing 300 shows a year. Listen to their music and their story on Morning Edition.

He's taking the helm as Starbucks workers band together to form unions.

The Duluth, Minn., trio called Low are known for slow, quiet songs. But on their new album, The Great Destroyer, the band sets a different course.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports from North Dakota on the extent of the damage caused by extensive Spring floods. The worst may be over, but volunteers are banding together to keep an eye on the flood waters, which continue to rise due to wamrer temperatures which are melting a deep snowpack.

Joel Obermayer reports from Atlanta on sharing your toys in virtual reality, erecting a building from miles away, and practicing a lick with your band- even if you're in another state. It's Internet Two and it's fast on the way.

A remembrance for jazz pianist Mal Waldron, who has died at the age of 77. Waldron accompanied Billie Holiday in the 1950s, and played in bands with great artists like Charlie Mingus and John Coltrane.

Liane Hansen speaks with New York-based composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel. His CD of chamber works written over the past decade, called Soul Garden, is on CRI Emergency Records. Bermel also fronts a rock band, Peace by Piece, with a CD available on Miscellaneous Records.

Kara Oehler from Arizona Public Radio reports on a group of Flagstaff housemates so committed to aiding small independent bands, they've started opening their home to the community for concerts. They're known as "The Robot House."

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, co-founders of the pop band Fountains of Wayne. Their new CD, Welcome Interstate Managers, is on S-Curve Records.

Rock historian Ed Ward offers a retrospective on the Australian group The Go-Betweens. The band has a new album, Oceans Apart, and is currently on tour.