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Don Voegeli wrote the original theme for All Things Considered on a Putney synthesizer. When he retired in 1982, all his synths were auctioned off. A lot of people have wondered where they went.

The Connecticut-born bassist was known both for his attack on the fingerboard and the decades he spent nurturing the next generation of players.

Britney Spears asked an LA County judge to end her father's control over her life via a conservatorship. Musicians, especially female ones, have been subject to various forms of control for decades.

Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S., blowing roofs off buildings and reversing the flow of the Mississippi River.

Fans of Hoang's work will be happy to see Quan — a side character in previous novels — come back for his own Happy Ever After with Anna, a violinist grappling with burnout and family issues.

In the years following World War II, tape-recording clubs gathered significant popularity in the UK. Clubs met to share tapes of everything from bird calls to the sounds of local events. Today, though, only a few such clubs still survive.

The start to the school year in New Orleans offers a landmark moment in U.S. education. For the first time, a major urban school district will operate almost entirely with charter schools.

Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's a new French horror movie, Titane, Netflix's Midnight Mass, and the web series Dimension 20.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Amy Wilentz, a contributing editor at The Nation, about what's next for Haiti after last week's assassination of the country's president.

25-year-old rapper Shelem sees his latest project as an artistic watershed for him: The production is slick, it has a solid hook and the lyrics show a writer who's continuing to advance in his art.