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All Songs Considered counts down the year’s best music. Host Bob Boilen talks with reviewers and listeners about their picks for the best CDs and songs of 2005. The show was originally webcast live on NPR.org

This Tiny Desk Contest entry is about finding solace in the noise of the city, succumbing to escape.

Coney Island's Side Show by the Seashore is a throwback to the days when circuses and carnivals flourished. A proposed Las Vegas-style entertainment complex is a real threat, but the Side Show attraction remains, with its nostalgic charms.

In Spain, he is known as El Ingles, or "The Englishman." Frank Evans is the country's only British matador, and a knee injury may force him to retire at the age of 62.

For fans of Courtney Barnett, Sharon Van Etten and Beach House.

Darren Star, who created "Sex and the City," is also behind this show — and there seem to be some similarities.

Thomas Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for The Washington Post, talks about his new book, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Ricks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, takes a hard look at the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Preview some of fall's most anticipated new albums from Flying Lotus, Cody ChesnuTT and more.

The world's most popular glam band takes the stage at World Cafe Live as part of the WXPN's Life Fridays concert series.

As a debate over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys unfolds, White House officials may be subpoenaed by Congress, and more e-mail related to the case is likely to be made public.