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Madison McFerrin’s atmospheric single' Atmosphere’s feel-good single' and Shana Cleveland's spectral guitar-based love album populated with the insect world, ghosts, and evil spirits. (article)
Pearla, the Brooklyn-based artist Nicole Rodriguez, makes off-kilter folk-pop that mixes reality and the surreal. She and her band play weird and wonderful new songs in-studio. (episode)
Grammy-winning trumpeter and sports broadcaster Nabaté Isles seeks to bring the groove and movement back to jazz, to get people to dance. He and his band play new songs in-studio. (episode)
The contemporary silent film 'Electric Appalachia' was created by Eric Dawson for guitarist William Tyler and harpist Mary Lattimore. Hear their collaborative score, recorded remotely. (episode)
Troubled times bring out the best in The Heavy and Joy Oladokun; technology brings out the many sides of Lisel; and Natalie Merchant returns. Plus, new music from Dry Cleaning. (article)
The Australian artist, Wally de Backer, aka pop-star Gotye, also tinkers with unusual instruments. He'll play the rare 1940s French proto-synth, the Ondioline, in-studio. (Archives.) (episode)
Brooklyn via San Juan band Balún identifies as "transnational." Hear DIY tropical electronica "DreamBow," something like reggaeton roots meet shoegaze pop, in-studio. (Archives, 2018.) (episode)
Kelela’s return, Black Belt Eagle Scout’s Indigenous creation myth, and Grandbrothers’ collaboration with a cathedral. Plus, Cinder Well's doom-folk and Son Rompe Pera's cumbia punk. (article)
Irish multi-instrumentalist Anna Mieke's songs conjure expansive places and moving through those places- touching on death, dreaming, memory, and family. She and her band play in-studio. (episode)
The rapper Oddisee considers ambition and other big ideas of home, race, and family on the 2023 album 'To What End'. He and the live band, Good Company, play in-studio. (episode)