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The Metric singer returns with her first solo album in a decade — and another set of reflections too raw for the band that made her famous.

The British pop singer talks about her post-breakup empowerment anthem and its colorful, all-female music video.

With the 1960s pop girl group, Weiss found fame as a 15-year-old. She died on Friday, according to her husband.

Kate Seelye in Cairo reports a new pop song with a virulent message is topping the charts in the Egyptian capital. The song is entitled I hate Israel. To some extent, it reflects the popular mood.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews the new animated feature Happy Feet. As the film's domestic earnings approach $100 million, the musical has started to pop up on lists of prospective Best Picture nominees.

Scott remembers the late British pop star Kirsty MacColl. She died last December at the age of 41. Her last album is a mix of English wit and Latin rhythms. It's called Tropical Brainstorm on Instinct Records (INS557-2).

A year where alternative and hip-hop were the mainstream, and glam and pure pop were out.

Commentator Reynolds Price jabs at the frivolity of some consumer products popping up on the gadget market place. Not to be out done by the makers of battery powered pepper grinders, Price has a few product ideas of his own: home liposuction, the flesh zipper, and the calorie-exchange switch.

NPR's Wendy Kaufmann reports on how the 24-member U.S. Navy air crew passed the time while in detention in China. It wasn't all serious business--gin rummy and American pop songs were also part of the mix.

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.