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Franz Wright is the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry -- and he's the inspiration for ill lit, a New York rock band that is named for a collection of his poetry. Wright speaks and ill lit band member Daniel Ahearn speak with NPR's Scott Simon.

The band Modest Mouse have grown from a well-respected indie-rock act to a major-label band that sold over a million-and-a-half copies of its last record, Good News For People Who Love Bad News, in large part because of the inescapable single "Float On." Their new LP is titled We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank.

Gino Yevdjevich is the lead singer of the Bosnian-Bulgarian punk rock band Kultur Shock. He was a rock musician in Sarajevo when the Bosnian War broke out. During the war, he played a major role in rewriting the musical Hair into a new version called Hair: Sarajevo, AD 1992 which played in Sarajevo for three years to standing room only crowds. Yevdjevich now lives in Seattle; he moved there in 1996 when a theatre produced his play Sarajevo: Behind Gods Back. His band Kultur Shock has a new CD called F.U.C.C. the INS (Kool Arrow Records).

The band from Denton, Texas, was deep into the recording of its fourth album when its lead singer left the group. It forced the remaining members to scrap the new songs and start over with a brand-new sound. The result is Midlake's best record in years.

Chelsea O. chatted with the band about the release of their debut album, songwriting while on a flight home, their aim to delve into themes of faith, loss, and connection, and much more.

BTPM's Disability Reporter Emyle Watkins will host a live interview on April 30th at 12pm with Maria Perrin, the president of PPL, the new single statewide fiscal intermediary (FI) for the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP).

After a coaching career spanning four decades, Coach Mike Krzyzewski has coached his final home game with the Duke Blue Devils, a game that saw Duke upset by the North Carolina Tar Heels 94-81.

Democrats are making a fresh push on voting rights legislation around the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, while also trying to revive President Biden's Build Back Better agenda.

Andrew Limbong, host of NPR's Book of the Day podcast, recommends key books to read on right wing extremism and former President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.