Midwestern band Cloud Cult makes emotive, orchestral indie rock which celebrates life and love, and catharsis through music. They play new songs from 2024's Alchemy Creek, in-studio.

This week, English Teacher’s Mercury Prize, Lollise’s Afropop dance music, Nick Cave’s ecstatic “Wild God,” and LL Cool J’s “don’t call it a comeback”.

Nashville-based artist and musical polymath Conner Youngblood has just released "Cascades, Cascading, Cascadingly", a spacious and dreamy, quiet and curious album. He plays in-studio.

Using the cell as musical metaphor for human beings, vocalist and composer Meredith Monk takes the micro to macro in "Cellular Songs." Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble perform in-studio.

This week, a long-awaited record by The The; Andra Day’s take on a gospel hymn; Bruce Springsteen aids an ailing colleague; plus Ellen Reid, Laurie Anderson, and Danielia Cotton.

The New York band Crumb creates playful and brooding swirls of sounds, somewhere at a crossroads of psychedelia, pop, jazz, and rock. They play music from 2024's 'AMAMA', in-studio.

American pianist and educator Christopher O’Riley has spent his career gleefully ignoring musical boundaries and playing everything from J.S. Bach to Radiohead. He plays Bach in-studio.

This week, modern “Romance” from Fontaines DC, a new home for blues veteran Ruthie Foster, and an oceanographic album by Rachel Lee Priday. Plus, new club music from Mura Masa.

Mehrnam Rastegari is a composer and New York-based master of the kamancheh, the Persian spike fiddle. She leads a traditional Persian band in original music and older songs, in-studio.