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This week, a timely new song from Mali’s Oumou Sangaré, Robert Glasper’s star-studded new LP, Tank & The Bangas' "Stolen Fruit," and the ambitious debut of caroline. (article)
The trailblazing synth-pop band, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - OMD, reformed in 2006, and have released their third album, The Punishment of Luxury. OMD performs in-studio. (2017.) (episode)
Musician/Producer Emily Wells performs songs off her latest album, 'Regards to the End," which explores the AIDS crisis, climate change, and her lived experience watching the world burn. (episode)
Portland, OR-based Pink Martini whisks listeners away on globetrotting musical journeys, singing in Armenian, Portuguese, Arabic, French & Xhosa. They perform in-studio. (Archives, 2017) (episode)
Future Islands' return to TV, Hurray For The Riff Raff’s recipe for life on earth, and creepy folk from both Cinder Well and Jake Blount. Plus, Samora Pinderhughes addresses masculinity. (article)
The leather jacket-armored dark-humored queen of the downtown night, Shilpa Ray, joins us to play some of her wonderfully twisted songs off of "Door Girl." (From the Archies, 2017.) (episode)
Spoon spends time with Lucifer, Odesza remakes an old Bettye LaVette song, and Kae Tempest’s love song to a troubled England. Plus, harpist Brandee Younger's two-part single, "Unrest." (article)
The Welsh musician Cate Le Bon plays new music from Pompeii, where songs take unexpected left turns and seem to exist in the shadow of catastrophe. She performs in The Greene Space. (episode)
Minnesotan artist and musician FPA, aka Frances Priya Anczarski, unspools a slow and romantic beauty on her 2021 release, Princess Wiko. FPA performs a few of these songs remotely. (episode)
Mitski returns, British band Wet Leg debuts, and RIP to India’s Lata Mangeshkar. Also, cumbia appreciation from Los Bitchos and Calexico, and the latest by Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo. (article)