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The revered singer-songwriter from Austin, Texas, is battling Hepatitis C. Some of his friends, fans and family — including Pete Escovedo, Sheila E., Ian Hunter, John Cale, Billy Corgan and Ryan Adams — have put together a tribute album, Por Vida.

Brigid Jaipaul-Valenza will be with Kishia Douglas, a Tops customer who was in line at the registers during the shooting. Then Dave Debo speaks with Rev. John Sullivan of the New Cedar Grove Life Changing Church about a community push to bring Wegman’s there, and activist Myles Carter talks about his work with and for the Tops workers.

Filled with press clippings, newsletters and receipts, the new Grateful Dead Archive at the University of California, Santa Cruz, reveals that rock 'n' roll's quintessential hippies were also savvy businessmen.

Eliza is on the trail of a fugitive who is charged with murder.

For the first time in decades, the historically black college in Tallahassee played its first home game of the season without its famous Marching 100 band. The band was suspended for the year after drum major Robert Champion died as a result of a hazing incident last November.

American Band, the long-running rock band's 11th album, lives up to its name in how it digests, understands and challenges the notions of what it means to be American.

In 'School of Rock,' Jack Black plays a rocker who takes a gig as a fifth-grade substitute teacher. He and the actors who played the fifth graders, now in their 30s, are reuniting.

SOFTSPOT's song "Maritime Law" originated when frontwoman Sarah Kinlaw and her dad were caught in a storm off the North Carolina coast. She says the experience made her view safety in a new way.

This clever medley superimposes one of Duke Ellington's sacred works over a Led Zeppelin classic.

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson recently winnowed the thousands of bands playing the South by Southwest music festival down to a 100-song playlist. Here, he singles out four discoveries — bands he'd never heard but now can't wait to see live.