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Ed Ward reviews Goodbye, Babylon, a six-CD anthology that culls strange, rare and fiery finds of American gospel and other religious music from the early 20th century. The box set is produced by maverick label Dust-to-Digital.

NPR's Tony Cox talks with organ master Dr. Lonnie Smith about art of the Hammond B3, his extensive music career and his latest CD, Too Damn Hot.

For generations, New York's Village Vanguard has been at the center of American jazz. Ashley Kahn reports on the celebration marking the 70th anniversary of the legendary club.

The music of M.I.A, a young hip-hop artist who grew up in Sri Lanka and South London, bridges the gap between her war-torn past and her urban present. Day to Day music critic Christian Bordal reviews her CD, Arular.

Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato are the team behind Inside Deep Throat, a documentary about the 1972 porn classic Deep Throat. We talk with them about their movie -- and the original.

Gunner Palace is a documentary about U.S. troops in Iraq. It shows a life of tedium and anxiety. For relief, many soldiers turn to music.

Companies of actors doing plays in a rotation, with a different show every night, is a dream for many in the regional theater movement. Few troupes can afford it, but the ones that do can reap big benefits.

At 22, artist Sunny Taylor has already won an international art residency and had her work displayed in the Smithsonian Institution. Because of a disability, the self-taught artist -- who's drawn comparisons to the 16th-century master Caravaggio -- paints with her mouth and toes.

Before the advent of U.S. regional theaters, there were virtually no women producers, no women theater owners and very few women playwrights or directors -- but that's slowly changed over the years.

Moses Asch spent years collecting and compiling the world's sounds. Working through a number of small record labels including Folkways Recordings, Asch explored a world of sound -- not just music, but birds, bugs and machines. Asch died in 1986. But now the Smithsonian has put his entire collection of sounds on the Web.