Tel Aviv-born, New York-based clarinetist Anat Cohen and her Tentet range from chamber-funk to expressive orchestral jazz. They play music from "Triple Helix," in-studio. 

Berlin-based Danish singer and pianist Agnes Obel presents her latest classical chamber music-informed art-pop songs - ghostly and unsettling, beautiful and floating - in-studio.

Week of Jan. 20: This week, new songs from Eminem and Algiers tackle modern problems; a new song from Lankum looks back at an old one. Plus, dark folk music by Myrkur. 

San Francisco-based Ethiopian singer and songwriter Meklit Hadero delivers Ethio-roots-jazz with a heavy dose of pop and soul that makes bodies move. She and her band play in-studio.

This week, new songs from Antibalas and Jackson Browne, old songs made new by Rafiq Bhatia and Bonny Light Horseman, and a new song from Moses Sumney.

The collective of women from West and Central Africa, Les Amazones d'Afrique, grooves and harmonizes as an ultimate force to summon the rights of women and girls. They perform in-studio.

French-born, NYC-based jazz guitarist Stephane Wrembel brings his small ensemble to perform impressions of Django Reinhardt tunes, in-studio.

Week of Jan. 6: This week, a new song from Michael Stipe, a Joni Mitchell protest song reappears, and Kassa Overall’s new mix of jazz and hip-hop. Plus, Barack Obama's Songs of 2019.

The Attacca Quartet performs music from "Orange" by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw and chats about collaborating with a living composer, gardens, and Star Wars.