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  • Formed in 1983, the rock band performs songs from its 11th studio album, American Made — and includes an upbeat cover of the sultry Bruce Springsteen classic "I'm On Fire."
  • The award-winning artist is back with his 11th studio album, Innocents. Moby visited the Village Studios in Los Angeles to play songs from the record for KCRW. Watch him perform "The Perfect Life."
  • The My Morning Jacket singer recently treated KCRW listeners to a special concert at the Apogee Studios in Santa Monica, Calif. Watch him perform an epic track from his latest album.
  • Istanbul inaugurated the world's first continent-connecting train line this week. It's not the Orient Express, but the subway does make real an idea first proposed in the mid-19th century.
  • Robert Siegel speaks with automotive reporter Michele Maynard about the death and legacy of Eiji Toyoda, the former president and later chairman of Toyota.
  • As health costs keep rising, many firms are trying to run their benefits programs as leanly as possible. For some, that means not paying the claims of spouses who work for other companies. It costs more to insure the typical spouse than the typical employee, one analyst says.
  • The bill, which the French Senate approved, is aimed at protecting girls from being sexualized. It's part of a larger measure on women's rights. The legislation still must be approved by the lower house of parliament.
  • One of the world's smallest is a version of the nursery rhyme "Old King Cole" — no bigger than a grain of rice. Back in the 1800s, one Scottish publisher discovered that a poorly selling copy of poems by Robert Burns became a bestseller when he miniaturized it.
  • The roots-rock singer and Drive-By Truckers veteran performs songs of redemption from his new album. Along the way, he gets help from his band — including his wife, singer and fiddler Amanda Shires.
  • Hiroshi Yamauchi, who led Nintendo from a trading card company to the video game giant it is today, died Thursday at the age of 85. Some of Nintendo's most iconic characters — including Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong and Zelda — were created under Yamauchi's leadership.
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