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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Lynn McMurdie, a University of Washington professor and principal investigator for IMPACTS, NASA's new project to more accurately predict snowstorms.

Wilson, who has been leading bands for 20 years, rounds up many of those players on his new tribute album. Critic Kevin Whitehead says Big Happy Family is full of humor and heart.

The 2004 movie Garden State transformed the Shins from a little known indie-rock band to a mainstream sensation. Their eagerly awaited new album is out today. The album shows the Shins expanding their sound without losing the melodic pop-writing they're known for.

One of the hottest bands on the New York City nightclub circuit is also one of the most eccentric -- the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. The group's appeal rests on the clever combination of a slide projector, a nine-year-old drummer and a knack for quirky, catchy lyrics. NPR's Ned Wharton recently caught up with the band. Watch our multimedia slideshow presentation.

When they were in college, members of the pop music group Bishop Allen derived pleasure from hurling furniture off the roof of their apartment house. Now they're singing about it. Hear tracks from their debut CD, Charm School.

The South American music joropo often deals with horses and cowboys. The Colombian band Cimarrón has made the genre more inclusive by adding Indigenous and Afro-Colombian themes and sounds.

The Death Cab for Cutie frontman recently released his first solo album, which he says spans eight years, three relationships and two hometowns' worth of songwriting.

This weekend, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation in North Carolina will start selling recreational marijuana to the public. Once shoppers leave the tribal boundary, they own an illegal substance.

A first-ever academic conference on the meaning and impact of the jam band Phish is happening this weekend in Oregon.

The chalet fell to the Sprague Fire at Glacier National Park last week. NPR's Marc Silver remembers a strenuous, hours-long climb with his family to reach the building.