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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Billy Corgan, frontman of The Smashing Pumpkins, about the release of the final act of the band's rock opera, ATUM.

Jack and Meg's 2000 album De Stijl is the kind of art you make for yourself, assured few will hear it. It was the last time they'd have that luxury, but they never forgot the lesson.

Johansen, a pioneer in punk music who found solo success under the moniker Buster Poindexter, died on Friday. His family announced last month that he had been in treatment for advanced stage cancer.

On Friday's Scoreboard, I’ll tell you why the Sabres have everything working in their favor to end the playoff drought. Plus, we discuss the Bills, who meet an old friend in Houston on Sunday, and we get to know a runner who is making history at Niagara University.

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.

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.

After 22 years, Jay Leno will host his last Tonight Show Thursday night. The 63-year-old comedian is leaving at the top of the ratings. Thirty-nine-year-old Jimmy Fallon will takeover as host on Feb. 17.

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.