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This is Twenty One Pilots in its purest form. Opener “City Walls” is a five-minute litmus test, with gigantic “oh-woah” hooks, soaring choruses, fuzzy bass tones, overdriven drums, and yes, rapping. It’s also pure fan service; the deeply ludicrous $1 million music video frequently calls back to past work and the song itself interpolates their single “Holding on to You.” …

Sandy Rosenthal, founder of Levees.org, stands in the Flooded House Museum where one of the levees breached in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The house was flooded, though the interior now is a recreation made by local artists. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR NEW ORLEANS — On a quiet street in the Gentilly neighborhood, a …