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  • La Roux: Full-Throated Ardor, Calibrated To Please
    La Roux is a British pop duo — 21-year-old singer Elly Jackson and synth player-producer Ben Langmaid — with a style that blends passionate vocals with strict mechanical beats. The pair's self-titled debut album went No. 1 in England and Europe this year, and now it's out stateside. Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews.
  • Isa Briones, left, Will Price, Miles McKenna, Zack Morris and Ana Yi Puig in <em>Goosebumps.</em>
    What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
    Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Goosebumps TV series, New Blue Sun from André 3000, and Matt Rogers' Christmas album.
  • Why bird feathers are so bright
    Why are some songbirds so brightly colored? A new study finds that a hidden layer of black and white feathers help their colors pop.
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    Frank Langfitt
    Frank Langfitt is NPR's London correspondent. He covers the UK and Ireland, as well as stories elsewhere in Europe.
  • Programming Notes: August 2014
    Deep in the heart of Tanglewood...When I was about 9 years old my best friend’s family took me to Tanglewood for the first time. I remember Rachel’s…
  • A Tribute To Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous
    Singer and songwriter Mark Linkous, who performed under the name Sparklehorse, took his own life at the age of 47. Rock critic Ken Tucker remembers the man behind the albums Good Morning Spider and It's a Wonderful Life.
  • Stars' new album, <em>No One Is Lost</em>, comes out Oct. 14.
    First Listen: Stars, 'No One Is Lost'
    The Montreal band recorded its new album within earshot of a since-closed discotheque, and it shows. No One Is Lost prioritizes lightness and bittersweet uplift over the devastation of past records.
  • Spafford on stage at Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, New York, on March 8th, 2026.
    Rainbow spirals round and round: Catching up with Spafford in 2026
    In this installment of Shakedown Beat, WAMC's Josh Landes interviews the band Spafford and reviews three dates of the tour that brought them through the northeast this winter.
  • Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) <a href="http://spaceinimages.esa.int/Images/2013/03/Planck_CMB">as observed by Planck</a>. The CMB is a snapshot of the oldest light in our Universe, imprinted on the sky when the Universe was just 380,000 years old.
    There's Trouble Brewing At The Birth Of The Universe
    Scientists can't just agree to disagree. It's not because we are stubborn or ornery (OK, maybe we are). It's because science faces a fundamental problem when it can't agree on numbers like the value of the Hubble Constant. The whole point of science is to establish an understanding of the cosmos on which we can all agree.
  • Halfway through COP26, here's what has happened so far and what lies ahead
    It's the second and final week of the UN climate conference in Glasgow after a weekend of protests. World leaders are expected to hammer out details on their plans to slow catastrophic global warming.
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