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Your morning companion from NPR and the WNYC Newsroom, with world news, local features, and weather updates.

Elizabeth Williamson, a Washington-based Wall Street Journal reporter, joins us to round up the news of the long weekend, including immigration and health-care reform. Plus: how camer...

The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

In this episode: In the 1970s, a Memphis band called Big Star made three records -- and then disbanded. Years later, they'd become part of the rock canon. We hear the story with filmmaker Drew DeNicola, whose new documentary film is called Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, and band's drummer, Jody Stephens.

Plus: 30 Rock and SNL composer Jeff Richmond joins us in The Greene Space to talk about writing music for TV -- and adapting wife Tina Fey’s Mean Girls for Broadway.

And: Slide guitarist Robert Randolph and The Family Band play a live set of smokin’ tunes from their upcoming album, Lickety Split. 

From the melodious inflections of phone messages, listen to a number of works sourcing voicemails, most from tape(!) on this New Sounds program. Hear Irish composer Roger Doyle’s “Memento Mori,” composed around intimate verbal time capsules culled from various answering machine messages of Doyle's family, close friends and partners, all of them recorded and preserved in the late 80's.