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WNYC, New York Public Radio, brings you Soundcheck, the arts and culture program hosted by John Schaefer, who engages guests and listeners in lively, inquisitive conversations with established and rising figures in New York City's creative arts scene. Guests come from all disciplines, including pop,...
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Brooklyn Band Momma Plays Unplugged, In-Studio
The Brooklyn band called Momma revolves around the singing and songwriting team of Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten who combine gauzy vocal harmon...
Icelandic Pianist Eydís Evenson Shares Elemental Lessons of LIfe and Nature
The Icelandic keyboardist and composer Eydís Evensen has released three albums of music that blends classical lyricism with the repeating patterns of...
Boyish Brings Walls of Guitars to the 'Gun' Show, In-Studio
The L.A-based, Brooklyn-born band called Boyish is built around the songwriting of India Shore and Claire Altendahl, and while they’ve been releasing...
English Singer Patrick Wolf Plays Artful Baroque Pop, In-Studio
English singer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Wolf built his sizable reputation on a blend of Baroque pop and arty, classically-informed folk-rock....
Dusty Psych-Soul and Fiery Groove From Black Pumas (Archives)
Both old and new, Austin-based band Black Pumas is centered around guitarist and producer Adrian Quesada and 27-year-old songwriter Eric Burton. Gramm...
Soundcheck Special - American Musicians Ashley Jackson and Ken Pomeroy
Listen to music from American musicians, the harpist Ashley Jackson and the Oklahoma-based Cherokee singer and songwriter Ken Pomeroy. Both sets come...
Irish Folk Duo Ye Vagabonds Go Backwards to Look Forwards
Ye Vagabonds are brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn. They grew up in rural Carlow but moved to Dublin in 2012 and became known on the traditional...
Indigenous Latin-Jazz-Ambient-Soul From Cochemea, In-Studio
Cochemea is a sax player, composer and arranger who spent some years playing vintage-style soul with Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, as well as stints w...
Polish Pianist and Composer Hania Rani Expands Her Sonic Palette with 'Non Fiction'
The now London-based Polish pianist and composer Hania Rani quickly attracted fans with her 2019 album of solo piano works in the post-classical style...
Master Violinist, Vocalist, and Composer L. Shankar, In-Studio
Master violinist/vocalist/composer L. Shankar (aka Shenkar) has spent the past four decades developing a personal style that ranges from strict Indian...
Tommy Emmanuel, C.G.P., Chases the Ecstatic Via Guitar Instrumentals, In-Studio
The Australian-born musician and songwriter Tommy Emmanuel is a virtuoso guitarist and Grammy winner who has played with everyone from the legendary C...
Guitarist and Songwriter Brad Barr Stretches Out In a Trio, In-Studio
The Barr Brothers, the indie-folk-rock band from Montreal, have just released their first album in eight years called Let It Hiss. Brad Barr, the band...
Portuguese Singer Carminho Distills the Fatal Romanticism of Fado
The Portuguese singer and songwriter Carminho is one of the leading singers in the style known as fado – the deeply soulful, melancholy music that is...
Mexican Songwriter and Producer Silvana Estrada Shares Her Heart And Finds Joyful Melodies
The Mexican singer Silvana Estrada made an immediate impression with her debut LP Marchita back in 2022. Quickly hailed as a unique voice in Latin mus...
Singer-Songwriter Meklit Embeds Ethiopian Traditions and Connects Cultures, In-Studio
The singer Meklit, born Meklit Hadero in Ethiopia, is based in the Bay Area, where she has released a number of albums that blend jazz, pop, and soul...
Canadian Singer and Composer Patrick Watson Features Other Voices, While Recovering His Own
Canadian singer and composer Patrick Watson has been making records for almost a quarter century – with a cinematic blend of indie rock, cabaret pop,...
The Antlers Consider Nature Under Siege in New Song Cycle, In-Studio
American indie rock band The Antlers began almost 20 years ago as a solo project from singer and songwriter Peter Silberman. While the previous album,...
Bell Jazz Award Winner Sullivan Fortner's Joyful Piano Adventures, In-Studio
GRAMMY-winning musical omnivore Sullivan Fortner merges New Orleans grit and spice with invention (and not just J.S. Bach), for an alchemical jazz tha...
Spanish-born Pablopablo, Bending Latin Music Traditions
The Spanish-born singer, songwriter and producer Pablopablo recently released his debut LP, but he’d already built up an impressive array of writing a...
The Sensational Blues Guitarist Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, At Last, In-Studio
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram has been steeped in the Blues since he was eight years old, when he visited the Delta Blues Museum as a student in Clarksd...
47SOUL Brings the Shamstep Party With a Message (Archives)
“Shamstep” band, 47SOUL, take their name from the Arabic name for the Levant region – Bilad al-Sham, with members from Jordan, Washington DC, and Isra...
Revisiting The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (From the Archives, 2019)
The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is a musically free-ranging band of brothers from the south side of Chicago. Their music draws from funk, funky jazz, Afro...
Rumbo Tumba Crafts Argentinian Electro-Traditional Music, In-Studio
Rumbo Tumba is the project of the Argentine musician Facundo Salgado, who uses a looping station and a battery of handmade, traditional South American...
Bill Frisell & Skúli Sverrisson Live at the 2025 New York Guitar Festival
From the 2025 New York Guitar Festival, hear music from legendary American jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and Icelandic bass player Skúli Sverrisson, who...
Homegrown Brooklyn Bluegrass From Cole Quest & The City Pickers
Cole Quest & The City Pickers are a bluegrass band from Brooklyn, and if that surprises you, well, the fact is New York City has had a long, strong bl...
Soundcheck Special – “Blues Is the Roots”
The Soundcheck Podcast series offers up music from recent sessions, all revolving around The Blues –at the root of so much popular music, and where th...
Wry and Lyrical Balladeer Ron Sexsmith, Solo, In-Studio
Canada’s Ron Sexsmith is a songwriter whose fans include Elvis Costello, Elton John, Paul McCartney, and a few other folks who know a thing or two abo...
Songwriter Cass McCombs Addresses the Mundane and the Mythic
Distinctive songwriter Cass McCombs takes a broad view of the American experience – from the mundane to the mythic. His new songs from a wide-ranging...
Omar Sosa Trio Goes Outside the Box, In-Studio
Pianist and composer Omar Sosa draws on his own Afro-Cuban heritage, American jazz, and spiritual and meditative practices from around the world to cr...
Plainspoken Texas Troubadour Rodney Crowell Lives for the Moment
“Failed bull-rider turned seminal songwriter” (Red Light Management), native Texan Rodney Crowell is considered to be one of the chief architects of A...
Guitarist Mary Halvorson and Drummer Tomas Fujiwara, From the 2025 New York Guitar Festival
From the 2025 New York Guitar Festival, listen to a live set by the adventurous guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson along with drummer/composer Tomas Fu...
A Kind of Nordic Blues From Tord Gustavsen Trio (Archives)
Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen and his trio, featuring new bassist Sigurd Hole and long-time collaborator, drummer Jarle Vespestad, combine together...
Adrian Quesada Revives Dramatic Vintage Latin Pop, With Guest Vocalists
Adrian Quesada is probably best known as one of the two co-founders of the psychedelic soul band Black Pumas, but the guitarist and producer has also...
Anand Wilder's Sonic Adventures in Psych-Pop, In-Studio
The New York-based singer, songwriter, and producer Anand Wilder was a cofounder of the experimental indie band Yeasayer, and more recently has pursue...
Inuk Singer-Songwriter Elisapie Transforms Her Heritage
The singer Elisapie is an Inuk musician, filmmaker, advocate, and writer who has become a nationally-celebrated figure in Canada – her portrait appear...
Guitar-Oriented Rock Band We Are Scientists' Twist on Nostalgia, In-Studio
Named after being mis-identified while returning a uHaul, the pop’n’roll band We Are Scientists has been making melancholic, nostalgic, and melodic so...
Eleanor Friedberger Is (Goth) Dancing (Mostly) on Her Own (Archives)
Eleanor Friedberger, best known as one half of the indie rock duo The Fiery Furnaces, has recently shifted her musical landscape, swapping out live in...
Rachael & Vilray Serve New Old-Timey Songs With a Sly Wink, In-Studio
The duo of Rachael & Vilray turns the idea of "Everything old is new again" on its head – making new things that sound really old. Over the course of...
The Expansive Textured Ambient Songs of Vines, In-Studio
New York based composer Cassie Wieland first unveiled her ambient songwriting project she calls Vines in 2023. Now she’s released a full LP under the...
Afrofuturist Hip Hop From Indianapolis Supergroup 81355, In-Studio
Indianapolis-based group 81355 (pronounced ‘bless’) is a collaboration between the rapper/singers Oreo Jones and Sirius Blvck, and the lyricist/produc...