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The rock icon's early work was liberally infused with humor, but his new album is perhaps his darkest yet. He explains how he writes lyrics off the top of his head — and what that has to do with his jive-talking grandfather.

The master of country soul, Percy Sledge crooned some of the genre's greatest hits, like "When a Man Loves a Woman." Rock historian Ed Ward says a new box set featuring all of Sledge's Atlantic recordings is certainly worth a listen.

Rep. Elise Stefanik's outspoken defense of Donald Trump after Jan. 6 has roiled a pro-democracy group funded by Congress where she's a board member. Some staff members are sharing their concerns.

In a one-hour-plus interview with NPR Music's Ann Powers, The Boss talks about his latest album, says the current version of the E Street Band is "the best it's ever been" and shares lessons he learned from his musical heroes as well as playlists full of new music.

Airing the hearing would have required Fox to broadcast flat contradictions of what its personalities have told their audience in the past year and a half: that the riot was a mere legal protest.

On today’s WBFO Brief, we go in-depth on three COVID-related topics. First, reporter Michael Mroziak looks at the COVID “Long-haulers” that continue to work through symptoms months after their infections go away. Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt looks at the statewide changes in mask mandates and how the NYS Capitol is still requiring them. And, Jay Moran has his usual Thursday discussion with Dr. Nancy Nielsen M.D. today looking at the incredibly small number of “breakthrough infections” that occur even after the COVID vaccine.Also, a look at the push to reopen the US/Canadian border by offering vaccines in the US to Canadians, new misdemeanor charges against four WNY-area people for allegedly being at the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, and Westminster and Enterprise Charter schools sue Buffalo Public Schools to stay open.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Nancy Rotering, the mayor of Highland Park, Ill., about the mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in which six people died. Police say a person of interest is in custody.

For 6,000 years, the Bedouin have bred Saluki for speed.

"We weren't going to try and be this constructed ideal of femininity," the Slit's guitarist says of the band. Albertine's memoir is To Throw Away Unopened. Originally broadcast July 16, 2018.

They died when a freezer malfunctioned at the Foundation Food Group's poultry plant in Gainesville, Ga., in January. OSHA cited the company and three others for failing to ensure worker safety.