Brooklyn-based funk jazz band Huntertones of Hunter Avenue in Columbus, Ohio join us to play a few new originals from their latest album, Transmission.

Dom Flemons brings his fretless banjo & resonator guitar to Soundcheck studios to perform a few songs from his upcoming record, Making American Music: The Smithsonian Sessions.

Grace Cummings is a contemporary Australian musician whose songs often have the big, technicolor sound of the 1960’s. But the featured sound is always her striking voice – as we’ll he...

New York-based Rasputina, the steampunk cello-rock outfit led by Melora Creager, draws lyrical inspiration from history and the headlines. What began as an ad seeking women for an ele...

Argentine folktronica / art pop artist Juana Molina performs a few songs from her critically acclaimed album, “Doga”, for today’s episode of Soundcheck.

We perceive loneliness as a human emotion. Dive into any decade and you’ll find countless songs written on the subject. But it’s not only humans who sing about being lonely – birds do...

Grammy-winning Americana/Folk singer-songwriter Allison Russell sings songs of joy with her band, The Rainbow Coalition, for this episode of Soundcheck.

Grammy-winning folk blues artist Ruthie Foster brings her skillful guitar playing and powerful vocals to our studio for a solo performance for this edition of Soundcheck.

The artist known as Everlast was the lead rapper in the group House of Pain, whose single “Jump Around” remains one of hip hop’s most familiar songs. But in the 1990s he began adding ...