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Authorities in southwest Virginia had feared the worst as they were inundated with calls from people who said they were unable to reach family members. But by noon Thursday, everyone had been located.

Spending her early career in the British punk band X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene is no stranger to making musical statements of principle on her own idiosyncratic terms. Her new album is Generation Indigo.

The Yankee star and ex-boyfriend of Marilyn Monroe "really couldn't function away from baseball. That was his language ... that was his grace," says the author of a new biography of the athlete. The book looks at his life after baseball and his fans' awestruck paeans to his lyrical movement on the field.

Surrounded by banners adorned with elk, with incense lit at the front of the stage, Agalloch's performance felt like a savagely beautiful and personal ritual. Hear the black-metal band's first-ever New York City performance, recorded live at Le Poisson Rouge.

Last month the haunting and delicate music from the score of The Social Network won the Oscar for best original score, and for millions of fans of the industrial band Nine Inch Nails, there was a moment of jaw-dropping surprise when a clean-cut Trent Reznor took the stage to accept the award.

The great British guitarist returns after a 12-year hiatus with the entrancing "Palermo Snow." The song's Arabic/Mediterranean sound evokes the tune's inspiration: a rare snowfall in Palermo, Sicily, when Renbourn was there for a concert.

The bittersweet tune is about a man leaving the Michigan town to find the true meaning of America. Now, the lyrics to the 1968 song have been appearing on vacant buildings around Saginaw, a city that fell apart after General Motors closed its factories in the area.

President Biden met with Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador a month after the Mexican president boycotted a regional summit. Biden's public remarks were brief. López Obrador — not so much.

After the pop-rock outfit Broken West decided to end its run last year, band member Ross Flournoy found himself at a loss. In need of some inspiration, he turned to NPR's Monitor Mix online songwriting contest and churned out a strong pop-rock single, which inspired Flournoy to start Apex Manor.

The singer-songwriter's vocals and thoughtful lyrics have earned him comparisons to Jeff Buckley and Nick Drake. Hear him perform songs on the World Cafe Live stage.