Pianist Lara Downes' latest is a multimedia piece called The Declaration Project, a collection of stories and music, celebrating America at 250. She plays in-studio.

The New Orleans band Tank and the Bangas have been public radio favorites since they won NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2017. Since then, they’ve built their considerable reputation on th...

Folk singer-songwriter Anjimile returns to Soundcheck with a new sonic palette and intriguing stories, to showcase some of the standout tracks from his new record, You’re Free to Go.

Elizabeth Ziman, who performs as Elizabeth and the Catapult, is a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn whose lyrics can sometimes mix the cosmic – like waiting for the dawn or the mundane...

On this episode of Soundcheck, revisit a special live performance and interview from our archives, recorded in 2019. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, host of the podcast Aria Code, an...

The London-based art rock band, Mary in the Junkyard, is getting ready to release their debut album after four years of trying to make sense of strange things in life through music. “...

Bassoonist Joy Guidry is a versatile improviser, performance artist, and composer of experimental ambient electronic music, who has founded her own record label, Jaid Records. While s...

Imagine the tropical grooves of Colombia and Mexico in an avant-garde setting. That’s the ethos of Ruido Tovar; the new collaborative project between Eblis Alvarez of Meridian Brother...

British singer/songwriter Paris Paloma is a darkly sharp artist who considers grief, politics, creativity, love, art, and power structures in her folk-horror-pop. She plays in-studio.