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The song has been a crowd favorite at Ohio State University games since the school's marching band first performed it in 1965. But hang on, the state Senate still has to pass the measure.

The new album Regard the End is by The Willard Grant Conspiracy, a band comprising more than 30 musicians from all over the world. The players get together as their schedules permit, making music tinged with the blues, jazz and folk influences. David Greenberger has a review.

The singer Morrissey, who led the 1980s British band The Smiths, has just released his first recording in seven years. The CD, You Are the Quarry, reflects Morrissey's unique blend of the political and the personal, with songs like "Irish Blood English Heart" and "America is Not the World." Mikel Jollett has a review.

The Boston band Tarbox Ramblers has roots in prewar gospel and blues. The group's latest album takes off from their first record, using the old songs as a jumping-off point for leader Michael Tarbox to write primal gut rock and roll. The CD is called A Fix Back East. Meredith Ochs has a review.

Kinky Friedman used to perform offbeat country songs with his band, the Texas Jewboys. He later turned to writing mysteries. Now he wants to be governor of Texas. His slogan for the 2006 campaign: "How Hard Can It Be?" NPR's Ketzel Levine has a profile of the Texas funnyman.

The list includes the rock band Rage Against the Machine, country singer Willie Nelson and guitarist Link Wray.

A bipartisan group of five female South Carolina state senators have banded together to fight the passage of a near-total ban on abortions in a special session that's now underway.

Karen Michel reports on a collection of music from former Portuguese colonies in Africa assembled by David Byrne, a former member of the 70's art-rock band Talking Heads. The common thread throughout the music is beauty, sadness, and political content. The music is also connected BECAUSE of Portuguese colonization. For example, the Angolan "semba" in the collection bears a striking resemblance to Brazilian "samba". (STEREO)

Rock historian ED WARD continues his series on the instruments of rock and roll. Today''s installment: is the Saxophone. REV.Rock Critic KEN TUCKER reviews the new album "Score" by the hip-hop band the FUGEES.

Commentator David Greenberger says that with the passage of time and the release of the Beatles Anthology, future generations will piece together the career and music of the Beatles in a manner far removed from his own. He bought each Beatles LP as it was released and grew up with the imprint of that order overlaying the music itself. His daughter started with Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and thus her listening will forever be colored by that. We hear cuts from the Anthology albums as Greenberger talks about how the Beatles affected generations of listeners.