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A look back at the legacy of the video game Mortal Kombat as it turns thirty this year.

The network has decided to cancel the sci-fi series after its recent fourth season. Ratings and viewership declined over the course of its four seasons.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Swedish pop singer Tove Lo about love, marriage, attention-seeking behavior, and her newest album, "Dirt Femme."

The Welsh-born artist, a co-founder of The Velvet Underground, has been relentlessly creating for nearly 60 years. On his new album, he sounds as alive as ever.

Joe Talbot, frontman for the British punk group IDLES, talks about Joy as an Act of Resistance, how Van Morrison's Astral Weeks changed his life and his tips for driving across Kansas while on tour.

Vega is releasing an ambitious series of recordings in which she remakes her past work as voice-and-guitar folk music. With 1987's gentle, stripped-down ballad "Gypsy," that's not such a difficult task.

The band's mix of guitars, strings and Matt Berninger's coolly dreamy delivery has attracted fans from all over the demographic map; its songs seemed written specifically for lovelorn mixtapes. Hear The National perform a live concert from WXPN in Philadelphia as part of the 10th annual NON-COMMvention.

Diana Krall's latest album is dominating the market for sultry Brazilian tunes. But reviewer Tom Moon recommends an alternative: the U.S. debut album of Magos Herrera, a Mexican-born jazz vocalist with a gift for understatement.

The songwriter and pianist, daughter of a globetrotting preacher, grew up with church music on Sundays and classical records in the household. Her debut album draws on all that — not to mention a teenage imaginary friend.

With the release of the 2005's The Acrobat, 2007's With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead and an album in which he covers the soundtrack to the '80s movie Footloose, Thomas Bartlett established Doveman as a true sleeper. His third album of original material with Doveman, The Conformist, is a testament to his soft-spoken style. This time around, though, he adds flourishes of upbeat synths, drums and catchy choruses.