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  • The band's innovative new video, for the latest song from the forthcoming Sleep Well Beast, is an impressive and slightly unsettling work of time-lapse photography.
  • From Alicia Keys' stop by the desk earlier this year to one of our Tiny Desk Contest winners, Guy Raz and the team at How I Built This pick their 5 favorite Tiny Desk concerts.
  • The end of this year's election season is also the end for many political websites. At the start of the election process there were dozens of sites offering voters a place to exchange ideas and opinions. Providing quality content was expensive and advertising wasn't as strong as projected. Now many political websites are undergoing strategic makeovers to survive. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.
  • The intraparty wind still blows in the House speaker's favor, at least for now. But that wind is likely to change in the near future.
  • Lisa speaks with John Chowning, Vice President of Church and External relations at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville Kentucky about some of the things a town goes through when a factory shuts down. Two years ago the small town lost its largest employer, Fruit of the Loom, but some of the jobs were replaced by Amazon.com. In the last few weeks, residents there have been facing the fear once again of potential job loss, but so far the town has escaped job cuts, at least for now. (5:30).
  • In the fifteen years since he released Trap Muzik, Tip Harris has reinvented himself a thousand times over. But the stories he recounts from that era make his Tiny Desk a memorable one.
  • India's smash hit Veere Di Wedding breaks lots of taboos — and is stirring up debate about its depiction of women.
  • The Virginia Beach denizen spoke about the reverse troll he laid on Def Jam, what it's like to go back and forth with Puffy, the fallacies of textbooks and the perils of ignoring the youth.
  • Host Bob Edwards talks with Christopher Byron, a Bloomberg News columnist, and author of the new book Delete Your Broker-dot-Com. about just what investors should and should not do with dot-com stocks.
  • Political wrangling stalls the new farm bill in Congress, with a proposed bill potentially increasing deficit spending by $33 billion. Amid a weakening farm economy, Amish farms in Lancaster County, PA, offer insights into surviving and thriving on a small scale.
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